Robert Francis Kennedy was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964. He also served as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. In 1968, Kennedy became a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency by appealing to poor, African American, Hispanic, Catholic, and young voters. He was mortally wounded when shot with a pistol by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian.
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Robert Francis Kennedy was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964. He also served as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was, like his brothers John and Edward, a prominent member of the Democratic Party and has come to be viewed by some historians as an icon of modern American liberalism. Kennedy was the seventh of nine children to businessmanpolitician Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and philanthropistsocialite Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. He authored his account of the Cuban Missile Crisis in a book titled Thirteen Days. In 1968, Kennedy became a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency by appealing to poor, African American, Hispanic, Catholic, and young voters. Shortly after winning the California primary around midnight on June 5, 1968, he was mortally wounded when shot with a pistol by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, allegedly in retaliation for his support of Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. Kennedy died the following morning. His father was a wealthy businessman and a leading Irish figure in the Democratic party. Unlike his older brothers, Kennedy took to heart their mother’s agenda for everything to have a purpose, which included visiting historic sites, visiting church sites, and regaling them with stories of heroes he had read. He described his position in the family hierarchy by saying, ‘When you come up, you have to survive to survive’ As the boys were growing up, Robert and John sometimes called him ‘Black Robert’ due to his prudishness and disposition.
His older brother John was often bedridden by illness and, as a result, made little effort to get to know his younger brother during his childhood. Although he took him on adventures with the adventures of John Buchan, who wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps, which influenced both of their favorite authors, Robert sometimes called John ‘Nine Steps’ He was also known as ‘Bobby’ to his friends and family. He died of a heart attack in 1968 at the age of 48. He is survived by his wife, three children, four grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. His son, Robert Jr. Kennedy, was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1964 and defeated Republican incumbent Kenneth Keating. His grandson, Ted Kennedy, served as President of the United States from 2008 to 2012. His great-great-grandson, Robert J. Kennedy Jr., was elected as U.N. Secretary of State in 2009. His brother, Edward Kennedy, died in 2012 at age 80. He had a son, Joseph Jr., who served as Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1940, and a daughter, Rosemary, who was a prominent philanthropist and philanthropist. His mother, Rose Fitzgerald, was a well-known philanthropist, who helped raise money for the Kennedy Foundation and the Kennedy Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology.
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