The 1968 US Presidential Campaign: More From The Premonitions Bureau

“Late in the morning, while he was being jostled and grabbed by a crowd in Chinatown, in San Francisco, a firecracker exploded near Bobby Kennedy. There was a string of loud bangs. His entourage cowered. He carried on shaking hands. The next day, Miss Middleton was frantic. ‘Another assassination and again in America,’ she wrote to Barker. She called the Premonitions Bureau three times on 4 June, warning that a killing was imminent. That afternoon, at the beach in Los Angeles, Kennedy’s 12-year-old son, David, got into trouble in the undertow, and he dived in to save the boy. He was shot in the head shortly after midnight, as he cut through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel, minutes after declaring victory in the California primary. ‘Everything’s going to be okay,’ Kennedy whispered, as he lay dying on the floor. Barker described it as Miss Middleton’s best prediction yet. ‘You were insistent,’ he wrote.”