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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.
On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and pronounced dead the following day. Kennedy, a United States senator and candidate in the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries, won the California and South Dakota primaries on June 4. He addressed his campaign supporters ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday to try to make his case to Republican senators that he can lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Also meeting with senators on ...
RFK Jr.'s political background. ... “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a clear and present danger to the nation’s health," Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, the non-profit, consumer ...
A sensational and troubled past often dogged Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential run, but didn't prevent him from landing a Cabinet appointment from his new ally, President-elect Donald Trump.
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]
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 ...