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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.
Kennedy with his uncle John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, 1961. Kennedy was born at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., on January 17, 1954. He is the third of eleven children of senator and U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel.
Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1925. [3] In 1948, he visited Palestine and wrote six dispatches for The Boston Post . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He dismissed the possibility of the Jewish state becoming communist as "fantastically absurd", [ 6 ] and called it the "only stabilizing factor remaining in the near and middle East". [ 7 ]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election on April 19, 2023. [10] An environmental lawyer, [11] writer, and member of the Kennedy family, he is known for advocating anti-vaccine misinformation [12] [13] [14] and a variety of public health conspiracy theories. [15]
Bobby Kennedy for President is an American documentary television series that focuses on United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy and his political rise in the 1960s. [1] The four-part first series was released on Netflix on April 27, 2018.
There are several non-standard accounts of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, which took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, California.Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel, during celebrations following his successful campaign in California's primary elections as a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate; he died the following day at Good Samaritan ...
Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968), by Charles Guggenheim, honored Kennedy soon after his death. In 1970, ABC-TV presented David L. Wolper's film The Unfinished Journey of Robert F. Kennedy, narrated by John Huston. [3] In 1973, Gérard Alcan directed and produced The Second Gun, a film about Kennedy's murder. [4]
The Kennedy family (Irish: Ó Cinnéide) is an American political family that has long been prominent in American politics, public service, entertainment, and business.In 1884, 35 years after the family's arrival from County Wexford, Ireland, Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy became the first Kennedy elected to public office, serving in the Massachusetts state legislature until 1895.