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In 1960, John F. Kennedy, Robert's elder brother, was elected the president of the United States [9] and appointed Robert as U.S. attorney general. During his tenure, Robert served as John's close advisor [10] and was associated with various decisions during the Kennedy administration. [4]
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (/ s ɪər ˈ h ɑː n /; [2] Arabic: سرحان بشارة سرحان Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān; born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a younger brother of American president John F. Kennedy and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election, on June 5, 1968.
John F. Kennedy's assassination was the first of four major assassinations during the 1960s, coming two years before the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and five years before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. [306] For the public, Kennedy's assassination mythologized him into a heroic figure. [307]
Who killed John F. Kennedy? 60 years after the President's assassination on November 22, 1963, a botched investigation clouds our conclusions about the crime. ... (and John's brother) Robert F ...
Oswald was himself killed by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas police station. JFK’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy, was a senator from New York when he was running for president in 1968. RFK ...
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.
However, the report ultimately did not give a conclusive motive for why Oswald had shot and killed Kennedy. “The explanation of Oswald’s motive for killing President Kennedy was buried with ...
In 1946, the Navy named a destroyer after Kennedy, the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. aboard which his younger brother, the future U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, briefly served. Among the highlights of its service are the blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the afloat recovery teams for Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 , both 1965 ...