Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to
Kennedy in 1964
Ambassador Joseph Kennedy Sr. visits his sons (Robert, second from right) in Boston c. 1939.
Kennedy in the Harvard University yearbook, 1948
Kennedy (with sisters Eunice and Jean) holding a football at the family's Massachusetts home, c. November 1948
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1968. The Republican ticket of former Vice President Richard Nixon and Maryland governor Spiro Agnew defeated the Democratic ticket
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Hubert Humphrey in New York, 1968
Lyndon B. Johnson, the incumbent president in 1968, whose second and only full term expired at noon on January 20, 1969