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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]
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.
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 ...
McKeon said JFK's brother, Robert, ... Jackie Kennedy died of cancer in 1994, and her former assistant admits she still misses her former boss. "I dream about her all the time," McKeon said.
Shortly after delivering a speech in Los Angeles, 42-year-old Robert F. Kennedy, JFK’s brother, was shot while shaking hands with a hotel busboy in a kitchen corridor outside the Ambassador ...
What experts on John F. Kennedy, ... the 35th President John F. Kennedy in 1963, his brother, ... the names of the people involved won’t do much good because they have since died, but that doesn ...
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]
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.