6 June 1968 ~ Thursday ~ Day 606
~~~~~ 720th MP Battalion Reunion Association ~ Vietnam History Project ~~~~~
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Senator Robert Kennedy Dies Robert Kennedy, age 42, the younger brother of former President John F. Kennedy, died in the early morning hours of 6 June from an assassins gunshot wounds received on 5 June.

Casualties Two members of C Company, SFC Frank Alloysius “Pappy” Condon, age 47, and SP/4 Lewis Randolph Lovell, Jr., age 21, were killed instantly when their patrol jeep detonated a powerful Viet Cong land mine while they were driving across the “Finger of Land,” in the 720th Tactical Area of Responsibility.
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