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Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known as RFK, was an American politician and lawyer.He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, anti-vaccine activist, and conspiracy theorist who has served since February 13, 2025, as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services.
The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award was created in 1984 by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, now known as Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, to honor individuals around the world who have shown great courage and have made a significant contribution to human rights in their country.
Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1925. [4] In 1948, he visited Palestine and wrote six dispatches for The Boston Post. [5] [6] He dismissed the possibility of the Jewish state becoming communist as "fantastically absurd", [7] and called it the "only stabilizing factor remaining in the near and middle East". [8]
To Seek a Newer World is a 1967 book written by Robert F. Kennedy, in which he outlines his analysis on issues such as the war in Vietnam, nuclear power, welfare, and other issues.
Robert F. Kennedy 1968 presidential campaign; Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights; Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award; Robert F. Kennedy in media; Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award; Robert F. Kennedy's 1948 visit to Palestine
Robert F. Kennedy's Law Day Address was delivered on May 6, 1961 to the students of the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, Georgia. It was his first official speech as United States Attorney General outside the capital, and the first endorsement of the civil rights movement by the Kennedy administration. Kennedy used most of the ...
The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award was established in 1968 by a group of reporters covering Kennedy's presidential campaign and "honors those who report on issues that reflect Kennedy's concerns including human rights, social justice and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world."