The Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign began on March 16, 1968, when Kennedy, a United States Senator from New York, mounted an unlikely challenge to incumbent Democratic United States President
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Kennedy speaks from the platform of a railway business car on his whistle-stop tour through Oregon's Willamette Valley
Kennedy with supporters in San Francisco (photo by Evan Freed)
Kennedy addresses a crowd in Los Angeles
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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
Robert F. Kennedy 1968 presidential campaign
…The Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign began on March 16, 1968, when Kennedy, a United States Senator from New York, mounted an unlikely challenge to incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson. Following a…
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