Just after midnight PDT on June 5, 1968, a Palestinian gunman named Sirhan Sirhan shot Senator Kennedy minutes after he and a crowd of his supporters had been celebrating his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary. Kennedy Onassis went to Los Angeles to be with Senator Kennedy's wife Ethel, her brother-in-law Ted, and the other Kennedy family members at his hospital bedside. Robert Kennedy died the next day, aged 42.