Robert Francis Bobby Kennedy (November 20, 1925 — June 6,
1968),
Robert F. Kennedy,45th anniversary… of the 5th June,1968.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy
Robert Francis Bobby Kennedy (November 20, 1925 — June 6,
1968), also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a
Democratic senator from New York,
and a noted civil-rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and a
member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F.
Kennedy, and he served as the president-s chief adviser during his presidency.
From 1961 to 1964 he served as the U.S. Attorney General.
Following his brother John's assassination, on November 22,
1963, Kennedy continued to serve as the Attorney General under President Lyndon
B. Johnson for nine months. There had long been bad blood between them, so in
September 1964 Kennedy resigned to seek a U.S. Senate seat from New York, which he won
in November. Within a few years he publicly split with Johnson over the Vietnam
War.
In March 1968 Kennedy began a campaign for the presidency
and was a front-running candidate of the Democratic Party, appealing especially
to black, Hispanic and Catholic voters. In the California presidential primary, on June 4,
Kennedy defeated Eugene McCarthy, the hero of the New Left and student elements
in the Democratic Party. That night Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a
Palestinian Arab. Mortally wounded, he survived nearly 26 hours, then died
early in the morning of June 6.
RFK,photos
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Robert Kennedy's 1961 prediction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD7a8k5kyGw
Robert Kennedy's 1961 prediction that a negro could be
President of The United States in the foreseeable future.
Jacqueline and Robert Kennedy in London
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8s4MXZcp0
March 1962. Jacqueline Kennedy visits the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
May 1965. Jacqueline and Robert Kennedy visit Harold
Macmillan
Robert Kennedy is wecomed by Queen Juliana at House ten
Bosch Palace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGUb9_HxU6I
The American minister of Justice Robert Kennedy and his wife
pay a visit to the Netherlands,
the minister is welcomed by Queen Juliana at Huis ten Bosch Palace, on his
departure at Schiphol Airport Kennedy holds a pair of clogs in his hand.
Bobby Kennedy appears on the Jack Paar show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01tTeOzPuZQ
Taped in March 1964, these are reportedly his first public
comments since his brother's assassination.
Robert F. Kennedy in South Africa 1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNJVMtG2OA
In June 1966 Senator Robert Kennedy made an historic visit
to South Africa.
It remains the most important visit an American made to South Africa
because it took place during the darkest years of Apartheid. The speech he gave
at the University
of Cape Town on June 6th,
1966, is by far the best known of Senator Kennedy's South African speeches.
Robert F. Kennedy in London
January 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1zqQknxr-Y
Bobby Kennedy interviewed on African questions, especially
on race relations (comparing Africa to USA)
and Rhodesia.
He is meeting with Conservative leader Edward Heath. Arriving in Oxford with anti-Vietnam
demonstrating students queuing outside.
Robert F. Kennedy in Paris,
January 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0JAx-SiOsA
The visit to Paris
at the end of January 1967 of Senator Robert Kennedy is of interest
because it brought out the existence of a line of thought
different from what has been
espoused by both Democratic and Republican leadership on Vietnam.
Instead of
toughening it out, was there another way for the United States to deal with the Vietnam
problem, i.e. talking with the enemy? By reading the files
on Senator Robert Kennedys
visit, it will become apparent that more than one year
before a US
delegation arrived in
Paris
for talks with the North Vietnamese, Senator Kennedy asked searching questions
of
his French interlocutors on what needed to be done to engage
the North Vietnamese in
talking with the US
on Vietnam.
It will be recalled that by January 1967, Robert Kennedy was
considered by many as a
possible successor to President Johnson and as the
Democratic challenger in the
November 1968 Presidential elections. Fate decided
differently. Nevertheless, the
conversations Senator Kennedy had in Paris showed a willingness to explore other
policies toward Vietnam than merely soldiering on.
There is no doubt that the leaked
telegram on Kennedys meeting with the French Foreign Office
officially set off a headon
collision with the President in office: Johnson. President
Johnson did not like to be
second-guessed on Vietnam by Kennedy. The American
press quoted Johnson of
accusing the State Department to be aligned with Kennedy
Reagan and RFK (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMzTcvXk1j4
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Interview- Civil Unrest, Vietnam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNk6d2hauw4
This is an excerpt from an interview with Senator Robert F.
Kennedy eight months before he was assassinated in Los Angeles. He hadn't yet announced his
candidacy for president but he very eloquently and insightfully addresses the
problems facing America
at the end of the 1960s
United
States presidential election, 1968
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1968
Oregon
1968 - RFK Campaign Train - II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H8RVBIybcU
Amazing Robert Kennedy Documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N-WNZLZF5A
Robert Kennedy documentary Walter Cronkite RFK
The Shooting of RFK - ABC News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6VekkXkDT4
USA.
Robert F. KENNEDY campaigning. 1968.
http://www.magnumphotos.com/Catalogue/Burt-Glinn/1968/USA-Robert-F-KENNEDY-campaigning-1968-NN113321.html
http://www.magnumphotos.com/Catalogue/Burt-Glinn/1968/USA-Robert-F-KENNEDY-campaigning-1968-NN113321.html
Bobby Kennedy's final campaign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvFx1H50a7Y
One of RFK's Final Interviews - ABC News, June 5, 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaB34CNjWJw
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy discusses the primaries with ABC News
correspondents.
No infringement of rights intended. The content of the video
belongs to ABC News.
Bobby Kennedy - fearless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ReAG6jNVs4
RFK Assassination As It Happened (Part 1 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRy2R10tgVI
RFK Assassination As It Happened (Part 2 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyCfJDGdnqE
RFK Assassination As It Happened (Part 3 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r35bQ2tW60
CNN: NEW RFK ASSASSINATION RECORDING!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2WLCrmE5w
Robert Kennedy Tribute - Making a Difference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgpUMr7er54
Bobby Kennedy: A Life Remembered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UghdgiuJw5c
We will never know how RFK's presidency could have changed
the world.
Do you know RFK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4C2x3Ie9Jw
RFK - Final Journey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4vJxi9Kis
Robert Francis Kennedy - Funeral Train June 8th 1968. A man
with a message of vision and hope that is missing in todays world
RFK's Funeral Video - ABC News, June 8, 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTuvmdAjW8o
A clip of news coverage from ABC News of Robert F. Kennedy's
funeral, who was the 64th Attorney General of the United States, New York
Senator, and 1968 presidential candidate.
Ethel Kennedy's photos
http://www.google.hr/search?q=ethel+kennedy&client=opera&hs=jtq&channel=suggest&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=7t6LUYSWB8X14QTz9oHgAg&ved=0CDsQsAQ&biw=991&bih=651
Ethel Kennedy's rare interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9QuQB5TMiM
She's the lesser-known Kennedy, but Bobby's wife Ethel has
broken her silence on life in the family.
DP/30: Ethel, documentarian (and daughter) Rory Kennedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeyTUWb3cPw
Ethel Kennedy's story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbtB_wWsZtQ
(Boston
Globe) As her documentary debuts on HBO, Rory Kennedy and her mother, Ethel,
talk to the Globe
Robert and Ethel Kennedy-Starlight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Rx3wZRlgE
"Bobby was everything to her-the best sailor, the best
skier, a hero who could easily climb Mount Everest
if he wanted to." -Eunice Kennedy Shriver
1968 Year in Review
Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
http://upi.genformax.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1968/Robert-F.-Kennedy-Assassinated/12303153093431-3/index.html
Published: 1968
Clutching his rosary beads, Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies
mortally wounded on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel, after being shot by
assailant Sirhan Bashira Sirhan on June 5, 1968, following his victory speech
in the California
primary election. Kennedy's wife Ethel is at lower left. (UPI Photo/Files)
Unknown Speaker: "I am announcing today my candidacy of
the presidency of the United
States."
Announcer: After Eugene McCarthy shows strength in New
Hampshire Primary, Senator Robert F. Kennedy reassessed his position and
entered the 1968 race for President. The Kennedy announcement was a political
surprise. But it was overshadowed 15 days later when another man informed the
country of his decision regarding the presidency.
Lyndon Baines Johnson: "I do not believe that I should
devote an hour or day of my time to any personal partisan causes. Accordingly,
I shall not see and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another
term as your President."
Announcer: Uplifted by the Johnson announcement, Robert
Kennedy set out to make 1968 his most trying year. A year during which he hoped
to become the next President of the United States. But a year that for
him ended in death.
Unknown Speaker: "President Kennedy has been shot, is
that possible? Is that possible? It's pathetic. Is that possible ladies and
gentlemen. It is possible, he has. Not only Senator Kennedy, oh my God. Senator
Kennedy has been shot and another man, a Kennedy Campaign Manager impossibly
shot in the head. I am right here Raefer Johnson has a hold of a man who
apparently has fired the shot."
Announcer: United Press International’s review of the news
of 1968 will continue after this message.
Radio newsman Andrew West was covering the California
Primary for the Mutual Broadcasting System. He was following Senator Kennedy
out of the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The Senator exited the hotel
through the kitchen, Andrew West followed. He heard the shots and instinctively
turned on his tape recorder.
Andrew West: "He has still has the gun, the gun is
pointed at me at this moment. I hope they can get the gun out of his hand. Be
very careful! Get the gun, get the gun, get the gun. Look, stay away from the
gun. Stay away from the gun. His hand is frozen. Get his thumb, Get his thumb,
Get his thumb. Get the whole of his thumb and break it if you have to, get his
fast. Get away from the barrel, get away from the barrel, man! That's it
Raefer, get it! Get the gun Raefer. Okay, now hold on to the guy, hold on to
him. Hold on, ladies and gentlemen, they have the gun away from the man.
They've got the gun, I can't see, I can't see the man. I can't see who it is.
Senator Kennedy right now is on the ground, he has been shot, you will not know
if the Senator is dead or if he is alive."
Announcer: The next day the Senator’s Press Secretary
informed the stunned nation of Kennedy’s death.
Unknown Speaker: "Senator Robert Francis Kennedy died
at 1:44 AM today, June 6, 1968. He was 42-years-old."
Announcer: The streets of New York were filled with mourners.
Thousands and thousands passed to touch his casket which lay in state at St.
Patrick’s Cathedral. They came and they waited for hours to pay their final
respect.
Unknown Speaker 1: "I feel a very deep emotion today.
Mr. Kennedy was... I really can't talk, I am sorry!"
Unknown Speaker 2: "We may be in this line for quite
some time, does that upset you terribly?"
Unknown Speaker 1: "Oh no, it took me up close to 14
years to become an American citizen and he was a big inspiration in it for me
and my sister. I'm sorry!"
Announcer: Ted Kennedy, the last surviving son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Kennedy eulogized his brother.
Ted Kennedy: "Those of us who lived him and who take
him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for
others will some day come to pass through all the world. As he said many times,
in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him .
“'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream
things that never were and say why not.'”
Announcer: As the body of Senator Kennedy was carried out,
Singer Andy Williams filled the cathedral with the sound of ahem that was
relevant and stirring.
Soon the crowd of mourners joined spontaneously, and the
great room was heavy with song.
And at Arlington
National Cemetery,
Robert Kennedy’s body was lowered into a grave and they are a few feet away a
flickering yellow flame marked the grave site of is brother, the late President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy whose life too was ended with an assassin’s bullet.
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RFK at 1964 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION «QC'z/AR»
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhGwb7WQWb8
RFK: The American Experience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlXNDyx6VV4
Featuring extensive interviews with family members, friends,
journalists, Washington insiders, and civil
rights activists, the film chronicles the pivotal role RFK played in many of
the major events of the 1960s -- the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights
movement, the war in Vietnam.
The film looks closely at Kennedy's complicated relationships with some of the
leading figures of his day, Martin Luther King and Lyndon B. Johnson, among
them. And it reveals much about his personal world, his role as family
mediator, his involvement with Marilyn Monroe, and his overwhelming grief and
guilt following the assassination of his older brother.
Produced by David Grubin, the award-winning director of FDR
and LBJ.
Robert Kennedy's Last Days in Pictures by Bill Eppridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLJkD7c9C70
Bill Eppridge talks about his time and photography of one of
the greatest leaders of America.
Jackie Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy Pull Me Through
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqGaxNGk2RQ
This video is a tribute to the closeness shared by Jackie
and Bobby Kennedy. They had always liked and respected one another but after
JFK's murder they formed an unbreakable bond. Some even claim that it went
farther than that. There is a book written (that shall remain nameless) that
tells of an affair between the two after the president's death and that Bobby
was her one true love. While I don't believe everything in the gossipy book I
do believe there was something between them. You be the judge. I just wanted to
create a video that shows the terrible loss they both endured and how it bonded
them together. Jackie once said that she would have jumped out a window for
Bobby. The haunting song is Pull Me Through by Jim Cuddy.
Jacqueline & Robert F. Kennedy and the John F. Kennedy
Library 1966 in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozJ-WbuiJGg
Color film of Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy
receiving a gift from NBC for the John F. Kennedy Library.
CNN: NEW RFK ASSASSINATION RECORDING!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2WLCrmE5w
Robert Kennedy 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kECWoxfd8QM
The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi14A20MJbE
The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy was originally
broadcast in the UK
on 23 November, 2003 on the BBC.
Eulogy of Bobby Kennedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuYibBbGN_Y
Ted Kennedy delivering the closing part of the eulogy at the
funeral of his brother Bobby, using excerpts from Bobby's famous speech to the
students of a South African university in 1966.
When Ted's voice starts to break near the end, especially at
6:24...that always gets ms teary eyed.
I was played this by my professor at an end of term lecture
the other day. The sheer number of my fellow students in that class who had
tears in their eyes, or who simply looked pensive, thoughtful, and on the edge
of their seats, is testimony to how great this speech is. It saddens me that 1)
this man never became President; and 2) that the "enormous array of the
world's ills" that he speaks of here are still so present and even more
prominent than ever before.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -Ted Kennedy Eulogy May 23, 1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBnxKD30L4E
Senator Kennedy eulogizes Jacqueline
Robert Kennedy Is Dead (1968 Documentary) …….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE8qMGaJDaw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhgz-YBkG9M
4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnW1DZ4c12g
5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zYqvbHl4e8 6.
RFK's Family Remembers Him on His 40th Death Anniversary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRhvKXgHuIY
Ethel Kennedy
http://pinterest.com/DelicateElegant/ethel-kennedy/
Ethel Skakel Kennedy (born April 11, 1928) is the widow of
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, who served as Attorney General of the
United States and a United
States Senator for the state of New
York.
http://www.digplanet.com/wiki/Ethel_Kennedy
photos
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Ethel and Robert Kennedy
http://marriage.about.com/od/senators/ss/Ethel-And-Robert-Kennedy.htm
Born:
Robert Francis Kennedy: November 20, 1925 in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Ethel Skakel: April 11, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois.
Fast Marriage Facts - Bobby and Ethel
Met: 1946.
Married: June 17, 1950.
First Marriage: Yes.
Marriage Ended: June 1968, Bobby's death.
Did You Know?
At their wedding reception, the bridesmaids were all thrown
in the swimming pool.
Died:
Robert Kennedy: At
the age of 42, on June 5, 1968 in Los
Angeles, California,
Robert Kennedy was shot three times by assassin Sirhan B. Sirhan. Kennedy died
on June 6, 1968 and was buried at Arlington
National Cemetery
in Arlington, Virginia.
Ethel: "When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the
morning and think, he's OK. He's in heaven, and he's with Jack, and a lot of my
brothers and sisters, and my parents. So it made it very easy to get through
the day thinking he was OK."
Source: Rick Bentley. "Rory Kennedy turns the lens on
family for HBO." FresnoBee.com. 10/17/2012.
Ted Kennedy: "He gave us strength in time of trouble,
wisdom in time of uncertainty, and sharing in time of happiness. He was always
by our side. Love is not an easy feeling to put into words. Nor is loyalty, or
trust or joy. But he was all of these. He loved life completely and lived it
intensely ... My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond
what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw
wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and
tried to stop it."
Source: Senator Edward M. Kennedy. "Tribute to Senator
Robert F. Kennedy." JFKLibrary.org. 6/08/1968.
How Robert and Ethel Met:
During college, Ethel's roommate was Jean Kennedy, Bobby's
sister. Bobby and Ethel met in 1946 while on a ski trip in Canada.
Ethel on love at first sight: "He [Bobby] was standing
in front of an open fireplace," she said in an interview alongside her
daughter. "I walked in the door and turned and saw him, and I thought,
'whoa'."
Source: "Ethel Kennedy reveals the moment she fell in
love with Bobby." DailyMail.co.uk. 1/26/2012.
Wedding Date and Information:
Bobby was 24 and Ethel was 22 when they married on June 17,
1950 at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Greenwich, Connecticut.
John F Kennedy was Bobby's best man. They had around 1,200 guests at their
wedding.
J. Randy Taraborrelli: "All of Ethel's attendants wore
white lace over taffeta dresses with wide-brimmed, eggshell-white hats
delicately trimmed with pink and white flowers. Ethel looked lovely in a white
satin wide-neck gown with pearl-embroidered lace overskirt. The same lace held
her fingertip-length tulle veil. Around her neck she wore a tasteful
single-strand pearl necklace. In her arms she held a bouquet of lilies,
stephanotis, and lilies of the valley, matching the white peonies and lilies
that decorated the church."
Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli. Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of
Camelot. 2000. pg. 41.
Bobby and Ethel honeymooned in Hawaii,
then drove across the country from Los
Angeles to their new home back east.
Children:
Ethel and Bobby had eleven children. Their youngest was born
six months after Bobby's death.
Kathleen Hartington Kennedy: Born in 1951.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II: Born in 1952.
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr: Born in 1954.
David Anthony Kennedy: Born in 1955. David died from an
overdose on April 25, 1984 in Palm
Beach, Florida.
Mary Courtney Kennedy: Born in 1956.
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy: Born in 1958. Michael died in a
skiing game accident in Aspen,
Colorado on December 31, 1997.
Mary Kerry Kennedy: Born in 1959.
Christopher George Kennedy: Born in 1963.
Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy: Born in 1965.
Douglas Harriman Kennedy: Born in 1967.
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy: Born in 1968.
Occupations:
Robert: Presidential candidate, U.S. Senator 1965-1968, U.S.
Attorney General 1961-1964, attorney, Seaman Apprentice in the U.S. Navy
Reserve from 1944-1946.
Residences:
Although Bobby and Ethel had a home on the Kennedy Compound
on Cape Cod in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts,
their main home was an estate in McLean,
Virginia. Known as Hickory Hill,
the six-acre Georgian estate was sold in 2009 for $8.25 million. Ethel returned
to their Hyannis Port home after the sale.
Quotes About the Marriage of Bobby and Ethel Kennedy:
David Grubin: Bobby was the first of the Kennedy boys to
settle down. Twenty-four years old, he married Ethel Skakel -- wealthy,
outgoing, athletic, so devout she had almost become a nun."
Source: David Grubin. RFK. PBS.org. 2004.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr: "Ethel had technical defects as
a wife. She was a flog at cooking and sewing, detested cleaning and spent money
carelessly ... In fundamental ways she was a superb wife, at least iin the old
sense of being her husband's helpmate. For Ethel Kennedy, reared as she was and
believing as she did, ministering to her husband was not self-sacrifice or
self-betrayal but self-fulfillment. It did not result in any manifest
repression of an irrepressible personality ... He never had to prove himself to
her. Ethel gave him unquestioning confidence, unquenchable admiration,
unstinted love."
Source: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Robert Kennedy and His
Times. 2003. pg. 89.
Evan Thomas: "RFK was warm and playful with his
ebullient wife, reciprocating her affection. But if, as a couple, they shared
their deepest fears and doubts, such intimacy was not readily apparent to
friends."
Source: Evan Thomas. Robert Kennedy: His Life. 2002. pg. 70.
A Kennedy home movie: Ethel Kennedy and family remember
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2012/10/17/ethel-kennedy-and-family-remember/XTzWnielUcAa9d0K38MRsI/story.html
A President’s Residence Saved: The Kennedy Family Compound
with Rare Photos of their Real Life There
http://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/07/a-presidents-residence-saved-the-kennedy-family-compound-with-rare-photos-of-their-real-life-there/
Whatever happened to Camelot? Dishevelled Kennedy clan look
less than picture-perfect celebrating Fourth of July on Cape
Cod
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2169327/What-Jackie-say-Dishevelled-Kennedy-clan-look-picture-perfect-celebrate-Fourth-July-Cape-Cod.html
Caroline Kennedy says family is 'at its lowest point ever'
as she fights to save the dynasty's tattered reputation from scandal and bitter
feuds
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179045/Caroline-Kennedy-JFKs-daughter-said-feuding-family-lowest-point-ever.html
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of JFK, is battling to save
her legendary family from being torn apart by in-fighting, tragedy, legal
scandals and bitter divorce.
The 54-year-old has allegedly admitted that the dynasty is
at its 'lowest point ever'.
Robert F. Kennedy suspected conspiracy in his brother’s
assassination, son says
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2013/01/a-first-in-50-years-two-jfk-relatives-speak-in-dallas.html/
Late former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy publicly
suported the Warren Commission’s conclusion that his brother, President John F.
Kennedy, had been killed by a lone gunman, but privately he had serious doubts.
In a round-table discussion Friday night in the Dallas Arts
District, the attorney general’s son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said, “My father
believed the Warren Report was a shoddy piece of crafstmanship.”
The appearance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with his sister
Rory, was a rare public speaking engagement in Dallas by any member of their family in the
50 years since the president’s assassination.
Bobby and Ethel Kennedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpHigrmjmRc
Just a small tribute to another of my favorite Kennedy duos
thanks for watching
Kennedy Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2S17Pb4_-I
OPINION: Ethel Skakel Kennedy: A Surviving Witness to
History
http://www.realcapitolview.com/ethel-kennedy/#.UYvfmL1vVAU
More tragedy has impacted the iconic group known to the
world simply as “The Kennedys” than most families will ever experience, and
Ethel Skakel Kennedy has found herself right in the middle of much of it.
Aside from the assassinations of her brother-in-law and
husband, watching various members of her family having their faces plastered on
the front page of newspapers under scandal-filled headlines, and out-living two
of her eleven children, the greatest tragedy regarding Ethel Kennedy may be the
fact that for the most part, we know absolutely nothing of her innermost
feelings regarding some of this country’s darkest hours – whether they be
events impacting this country or her own family, or in some cases – both.
Fortunately for those of us who enjoy reading and
researching the Kennedy family, Ethel’s youngest child, Rory, has produced a new
documentary about her.
The program, simply titled, “Ethel,” aired for the first
time on HBO last week. Rory Kennedy, born six months after her father was
assassinated in California,
directed and narrated the documentary – the first extensive interview that
Ethel has given in over twenty-five years.
Unfortunately, Ethel Kennedy does not – and in some cases,
cannot – talk about some of the events in her 84 years of life that, while
taking place 50 years ago, still hurt her to this day.
We see an example of her burden in this documentary.
At one point Rory states, “And then we lost Daddy,” to which
Kennedy gazes around for several moments, frowns, and then quietly musters out,
“Let’s talk about something else” as she looks down.
Robert and Ethel Kennedy
Few people can claim to be a personal witness to as many
great world events that Kennedy has seen, and even fewer are still alive to
tell their story.
Whether it be the Bay of Pigs fiasco – an operation heavily
pushed onto the recently elected (and skeptical) President John F. Kennedy by
trigger-happy military brass and CIA officials, which was meant to rid Cuba of
Fidel Castro but only strengthened the Communist leader’s hand, or watching the
United States essentially play a game of nuclear warhead chicken with the
Soviet Union.
Early in his career, Robert Kennedy was the Chief Counsel on
the Senate Rackets Committee – the oversight group Kennedy led to pursue
corrupt union bosses, and one that put Ethel’s family in great danger and
potential harm.
In addition to the major world events that Ethel has endured
and been a part of, few people have witnessed as much personal tragedy as she
has experienced, as well.
The President that was ruthlessly gunned down on the streets
of Dallas was
her brother-in-law. After her own husband was shot down just moments after
declaring victory in the California Democratic Primary in his own bid for the
White House, Ethel watched her world-famous sister-in-law and former First Lady
Jacquie Kennedy leave the country with her two children in tow.
After Joe Jr., Jack, and Bobby died, the surviving Kennedy
brother was (at one time there were four) Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy –
who was also the patriarch of the clan after his once powerful father was bound
to a wheelchair without the ability to speak after a stroke – a man who was
repeatedly plagued by personal scandal throughout much of his life.
Through all of that, and so much more, stood Ethel Kennedy
and her eleven children; eventually nine after two of her sons were killed –
one by a drug overdose in 1984 and the other in a skiing accident in 1997.
Clearly Kennedy’s fierce determination and strong Catholic
faith carried her through many dark hours. Ethel’s personal tragedy goes beyond
the well known stories of JFK and RFK; her own parents were killed in an
airplane accident, and a nephew on her father’s side of the family is in prison
for murdering a neighborhood friend.
In “Ethel,” we see the witty, sometimes stubborn woman who
was once known for getting a big kick out of throwing members of the Washington elite into
her swimming pool.
Some of Kennedy’s children are also featured in the film;
throughout it the ghost of RFK is very much alive with both Ethel and her
children still referring to him as simply, “Daddy.”
While we will likely never hear Ethel address some of the
topics I would love to hear her talk about - such as having two members of her
family shot and killed as they campaigned for issues they believed in – it is a
unique opportunity to watch a staple of our history talk about events that she
lived through.
Castro, Onassis, Hoffa, Khrushchev, Monroe, McNamara,
Sinatra – to us, these are simply names of people in history who have long
passed on but who helped shape this country’s history. To Ethel Kennedy,
however, these represent people that she either knew personally or who had
direct association with her family.
While most senior members of both the Kennedy Administration
and RFK’s inner circle are gone, Ethel has risen to be one of the remaining survivors
of a time now known as “Camelot.”
There is an endless amount of history within the original
nine Kennedy siblings.
Out of all of them – a group that included the founder of
the Special Olympics, a U.S. Ambassador, and three U.S. Senators (one who became
President and one who became Attorney General) – only one survives to this day
The second-to-last Kennedy child, Jean Kennedy Smith, joins
Ted Kennedy’s first and second wife, along with Ethel, as the remaining members
of that generation of Kennedy’s.
I couldn’t encourage you more to watch “Ethel,” on HBO. With
each day, month, and year we lose more and more people who were at the
forefront of leadership and fame in the 60′s.
There simply will never be another woman like Ethel Kennedy.
Honoring Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/1149
Earlier today, on the 50th anniversary of his swearing-in as
Attorney General, the Department of Justice came together to celebrate the
achievements and enduring contributions of Robert F. Kennedy. Joined by Kennedy family members, including
his wife, Ethel Kennedy, renowned civil rights leaders, historians and current
and former Justice Department employees this event commemorated the life and
service of our nation’s 64th Attorney General.
Attorney General Eric Holder reflected on the enduring
legacy of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, noting:
No one can doubt how Robert Francis Kennedy chose to use the
law when he was Attorney General. He
taught us that law can be a powerful force for good – if we are willing, as he
was, to roll up our sleeves, to summon our courage and our best efforts, and to
lead from the front lines of change.
In doing just that, Attorney General Kennedy championed the
cause of the least among us – and made our nation more just, more fair, and
more humane. He was not afraid to dream
a better world and to act to create it.
However, the Attorney General also pointed to the work left
still to do:
In his first speech as Attorney General, Robert Kennedy
argued that the time for apathy had long since passed; that it was time to,
“[prove] to the world that we really mean it when we say that all men are
created free and equal before the law.”
“All of us,” he said, “might wish at times that we lived in
a more tranquil world – but we don’t.
And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging
and filled with opportunity.”
Despite all that’s been accomplished in recent decades, we –
still – do not live in tranquil times.
We continue to face difficulty, injustice, division, and an array of
challenges that can serve to sharpen our skills, steel our resolve, focus our
energy, and impel us to action.
In times like these, the importance of Robert Kennedy’s work
becomes ever clearer…
So, as we celebrate
Robert Kennedy’s life and his impact on this Department, let us also commit
ourselves to carrying on – and carrying out – his mission to make gentle the
life of this world, and to make good on the promise of our nation. Let us answer his call, “to face up to our
nation’s problems and live up to its founding principles.” And let us heed the wisdom of his
extraordinary example.
In marking this special anniversary, the Justice Department
is pleased to release a selection of historic photos from the Department’s
archives. These images capture Attorney General Kennedy at work in the
Department, at home with his family, and in public with people from all corners
of the globe.
Also, for the first time, the Department of Justice library
has compiled and digitized a collection of Robert F. Kennedy’s statements and
speeches from his tenure as Attorney General. These speeches, from 1961 to 1964
provide a window into the world of the Justice Department during that time.
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Working Late into the
Night in His Office
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Attorney-General-Robert-F-Kennedy-Working-Late-into-the-Night-in-His-Office-Posters_i5294542_.htm
Robert F Kennedy
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-attorney-general-robert-f-kennedy-everett.html
The Kennedys through the years
http://newyork.newsday.com/news/new-york/the-kennedys-through-the-years-1.4037202#1
I'm Running
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7F7MnMdtDw
I am running for Congress in the 4th Congressional District.
Please watch my announcement video and visit my website at
http://www.JoeKennedy2012.com.