Editing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (section)

=== Relationship with Robert F. Kennedy ===
After her husband's assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy relied heavily on her brother-in-law [[Robert F. Kennedy]]; she observed him to be the "least like his father" of the Kennedy brothers.<ref>Thomas, p. 91.</ref> He had been a source of support after she had suffered a miscarriage early in her marriage; it was he, not her husband, who stayed with her in the hospital.<ref>Hersh, p. 85.</ref> In the aftermath of the assassination, Robert became a surrogate father for her children until eventual demands by his own large family and his responsibilities as attorney general required him to reduce attention.<ref name=Spoto239>Spoto, pp. 239–240.</ref> He credited her with convincing him to stay in politics, and she supported his 1964 run for United States senator from New York.<ref>Tracy, p. 194.</ref>

The January 1968 [[Tet offensive]] in Vietnam resulted in a drop in President Johnson's poll numbers, and Robert Kennedy's advisors urged him to enter the upcoming presidential race. When [[Art Buchwald]] asked him if he intended to run, Robert replied, "That depends on what Jackie wants me to do".<ref name="FlyntEisenbach"/><ref>Heymann, p. 141.</ref> She met with him around this time and encouraged him to run after she had previously advised him not to follow Jack, but to "be yourself". Privately, she worried about his safety; she believed that Bobby was more disliked than her husband had been and that there was "so much hatred" in the United States.<ref>Thomas, p. 361.</ref> She confided in him about these feelings, but by her own account, he was "fatalistic" like her.<ref name=FlyntEisenbach>Flynt and Eisenbach, p. 216.</ref> Despite her concerns, Jacqueline Kennedy campaigned for her brother-in-law and supported him,<ref>Ford, p. 273.</ref> and at one point even showed outright optimism that through his victory, members of the Kennedy family would once again occupy the White House.<ref name=FlyntEisenbach/>

Just after midnight [[Pacific Time Zone|PDT]] on June 5, 1968, an enraged Jordanian gunman named [[Sirhan Sirhan]] [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy|mortally wounded]] Robert Kennedy minutes after he and a crowd of his supporters had been celebrating his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary.<ref name="NYTjune61968">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/06/05/archives/kennedy-claims-victory-and-then-shots-ring-out.html|title=Kennedy claims victory; and then shots ring out|last=Morriss|first=John G.|date=June 6, 1968|work=The New York Times|page=1|access-date=December 29, 2015|archive-date=July 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705094518/https://www.nytimes.com/1968/06/05/archives/kennedy-claims-victory-and-then-shots-ring-out.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Jacqueline Kennedy rushed to [[Los Angeles]] to join his wife Ethel, her brother-in-law [[Ted Kennedy|Ted]], and the other Kennedy family members at his bedside in [[Good Samaritan Hospital (Los Angeles)|Good Samaritan Hospital]]. Robert Kennedy never regained consciousness and died the following day. He was 42 years old.<ref name="NYTsirhan">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0605.html|title=Kennedy is Dead, Victim of Assassin; Suspect, Arab Immigrant, Arraigned; Johnson Appoints Panel on Violence|last=Hill|first=Gladwin|date=June 6, 1968|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126172532/https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0605.html|archive-date=January 26, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>