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RFK assassination 'like yesterday' for photographer Richard Drew

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Richard Drew, a young photographer, was thirsty, so he entered the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles the night of June 5, 1968.

Only 21 and working his first real newspaper job, Drew was there to cover Robert F. Kennedy's win over Eugene McCarthy in the California presidential primary. Instead, he became one of just four photographers to document the shooting that killed Kennedy....

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