WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Frank Mankiewicz, the press aide who announced Robert F. Kennedy's death, died on Oct. 23 at the age of 90 after three weeks in intensive care at George Washington Hospital.
Mankiewicz was a long-time Washington insider working in journalism and politics who worked in the Kennedy White House and for Robert F. Kennedy until the senator was killed in 1968 by an assassin's bullet.