Victory speech, Ambassador Hotel

This piece was reworked from a photo 

taken just after midnight on June 5, 1968. 

Sen. Robert Kennedy was concluding his speech 

in Los Angeles after winning the 

California presidential primary.

 He was shot minutes later and died on June 6. 

Note the balloon in the upper center. 

Photographer: Dick Strobel, Associated Press.

Unattached

 

Angels turn to ashes

 

You get what you pay for (#1 and #2)

Chart based on statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development.

 

But our hands are clean #1

Each thumbprint on the globe is an instance of a U.S.-backed regime change attempt during the Cold War (1947-1989), based on research by Lindsey A. O'Rourke in her book "Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War."