For jobs located in Wahkiakum County in 2015, about 54 percent were held by males, and 46 percent by femalesâwhile the state was split closer to 51/49. Three industries in the county are dominated by male workers: agriculture/logging (88 percent male), construction (82 percent) and manufacturing (61 percent).
Edward âTedâ Kennedy (1932-2009), the youngest brother of President John Kennedy (1917-1963), was a U.S. senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009, making him one of the longest-serving senators in American history.
Bobby Kennedy is assassinated. Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He died a day later. The summer of 1968 was a tempestuous time in American history.