Reply #43: Dude, it's all in wikipedia. [View All]

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He had knocked out Eugene McCarthy after winning the CA primary and Humphrey in SD. He was the nominee apparent that night.

Kennedy finally won the Indiana and Nebraska Democratic primaries, but lost the Oregon primary. If he could defeat McCarthy in the California primary, the leadership of the campaign thought, he would knock him out of the race and set up a one-on-one against Hubert Humphrey (whom he bested in the primary held on the same day as the California primary in Humphrey's birth state, South Dakota) at the Chicago national convention in August.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy#Assassination

Kennedy won. He won the nomination in June... all he needed was for it to be signed and sealed at the convention.