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  Robert F. Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kennedy was relentless in his pursuit of Teamster's President James Hoffa, and was criticized for a perceived insensitivity to civil liberties-- such as the widespread use of wiretaps against not only organized crime figures, but people like Martin Luther King Jr.
Originally Kennedy had denied speculation that he was going to run for the Democratic nomination in 1968 against President Lyndon Johnson (The 22nd Amendment didn't disqualify LBJ from running for a second term because he served less than half of JFK's four-year term).
Kennedy made urban poverty a chief concern of his campaign, which in part led to enormous crowds that would attend his events in poor urban areas or rural parts of Appalachia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Kennedy   (3605 words)

  
 Robert Francis Kennedy, United States Senator
Kennedy was so constantly in motion that he prompted some observers to say that he fled introspection, that he did not sit down with himself and figure out what he truly was and what he wanted to achieve.
Robert Kennedy was born Nov. 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts, a fashionable suburb of Boston, the son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Kennedy, brother of President John F. Kennedy, former attorney general, senator and presidential candidate, was shot on June 5, 1968, and died the next morning.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /rfk.htm   (4561 words)

  
 Kennedy, Robert, Assasination   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
ROBERT F. Shortly after midnight on 5 June 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-New York) was assassinated by Sirhan B. Sirhan in the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
A still photograph of Kennedy sprawled on the floor was televised as reporters noted in voice-over that he had been shot by an unknown assailant.
Kennedy's opponent in the Democratic primary, Senator Eugene McCarthy, echoed this sentiment in his condemnation of violence at home and abroad.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/K/htmlK/kennedyrobe/kennedyrobe.htm   (851 words)

  
 CNN - Michael Kennedy dies in skiing accident - December 31, 1997
Once viewed as one of the rising stars in his generation of Kennedys, Michael Kennedy last spring became enmeshed in a very public scandal after it was revealed that he had allegedly had an affair some years before with his family's baby sitter, who was reportedly only 14 at the time.
Kennedy -- who issued a statement after the statutory rape investigation saying that he had made serious mistakes -- had since remained largely out of sight.
Kennedy was the second of the late senator's children to die under tragic circumstances.
www.cnn.com /US/9712/31/kennedy.update.2   (619 words)

  
 The Presidential Promise Of Robert F. Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Robert Kennedy would be 78 now, an impossible longevity for him and his two older brothers and a destiny for America that "murder most foul" would deny.
Robert Kennedy was the reluctant candidate for president, refusing Allard Lowenstein's importunings the previous autumn but ultimately, realizing that McCarthy would not win the nomination and that Humprhey was damaged irreparably by his public support for a war he opposed privately.
With Robert Kennedy's death, the rest of the American century's catastrophic saga was written in death and sorrow.
www.politixgroup.com /comm156.htm   (1218 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | A delirium of despair after victory roar
But at last, through the strutting cops and guards and the elated crowd and the din of whistles and cheers, it was possible to reach the north ballroom, a bone-white glare of light seen at the far end of the lobby.
Kennedy's press secretary had promised that once the Senator had saluted his army he would go down from the ballroom stage and come to see us through the kitchen that separated our retreat from the ballroom.
Kennedy was looking up like a stunned choirboy from an open shirt and a limp huddle of limbs.
www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,1182176,00.html   (1346 words)

  
 Save the Earth -- dump Bush - Salon
Kennedy lays out in legal-brief detail how, under Bush, the federal agencies supposed to be guarding our air, water and natural resources have been systematically turned over to the industry foxes that are ravaging them.
Kennedy, who is an avid fisherman and falconer, says he has been an environmentalist all his life: "My mother said that when I was in the crib, I was always picking up beetles." As a boy, he wanted to be a veterinarian, but after his father's assassination in 1968, when Bobby Jr.
Kennedy's main base of operations is a modest, two-story building on the Pace University campus in White Plains, N.Y., where he teaches law and runs an environmental litigation clinic.
dir.salon.com /story/opinion/feature/2003/11/19/bobbykennedyjr/index.html   (3682 words)

  
 Robert F. Kennedy Assasination
Raising his arms for attention, a smiling "Bobby," as his fans called him, thanked the room for their great support and, adding a bit of humor, thanked pitcher Don Drysdale for winning his sixth straight shut-out that afternoon.
Kennedy addressed the fact that the nation needed to overcome racial divisions and other social evils (the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King had taken place exactly two months ago to the day), as well as an end to the unpopular war in Vietnam.
If Senator Kennedy spotted the small, swarthy young man approach him at all, he would have figured he was just one of the many hotel personnel who wanted to shake his hand or beg an autograph.
www.geocities.com /verisimus101/rfk/assasination.htm   (1679 words)

  
 Legal Eagle : Bobby Kennedy, Jr. Fights for the Environment—and For His Kids’ Future (by Dick Russell)
Bobby hoisted his one-year-old son, Aidan, into a backpack and went to transfer two pet hawks from their outdoor weathering perch to an indoor mews.
Kennedy continued to talk fervently about the White House commission, “whose purpose is to figure out ways to dismantle the National Environmental Policy Act.” And about the efforts to gut key provisions of the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act, allowing more mountaintop mining and letting coal-burning power plants off the emissions hook.
Kennedy says his current lifestyle allows him to “hang out with my family and be a good father,” and he worries about giving that up if he runs for office.
www.emagazine.com /view/?1157   (3846 words)

  
 About Bobby Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bobby Kennedy is an accomplished adult contemporary songwriter and acoustic artist.
Bobby was born and raised in the western New York State city of Dunkirk on the shore of lake Erie.
Bobby is joined on the album by many talented area musicians, and especially by three of his children.
www.hvmusic.com /bands/bobbykennedy/bio.shtml   (376 words)

  
 Bobby Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 1976 he came to Alabama; by this time Kennedy had decided to dedicate his life to Civil Rights, picking up the flag where his father had planted it.
Kennedy later reported: "I found out that it was basically Frank M. Johnson who was running the state of Alabama.
Bobby Kennedy Jr., fishing in B.C. Bobby Kennedy Jr.
www.blackwarriorriver.org /kennedy.htm   (914 words)

  
 Chapter V. The Kennedy-CIA Divergence Over Cuba
While refusing to retract past criticisms of Kennedy, Castro said that the Cubans could live with him, and that "anyone else would be worse." Castro added that he found "positive elements" in what Daniel had reported, and asked Daniel to prolong his stay so they could continue their discussions.
The Kennedy habit of speaking out of both sides of the mouth at once, like the larger Kennedy habit of trying to please both hawks and doves simultaneously, can be criticized as a defect of leadership, even of character.
Kennedy’s comments show how ill informed he was as to the state of affairs in Laos, where the resumed fighting in April 1963 “was chiefly, if not entirely between the two neutralist factions, rather than with the [Communist] Pathet Lao” (Peter Dale Scott, The War Conspiracy [New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1972], 36).
www.history-matters.com /pds/DP3_Chapter5.htm   (11030 words)

  
 Getting Right with Bobby. - Review - book review Reason - Find Articles
Kennedy, he writes, "was a Zelig of power--at the vortex, it seemed, of every crisis of the 1960s." Zelig, the title character of Woody Allen's 1983 movie, did in fact meet many famous people, but was not at the center of historic events--that was another filmic Everyman, Forrest Gump.
Kennedy had a rotten time, and Thomas conjectures that J. Edgar Hoover hastened his departure by tipping off Papa Joe to McCarthy's imminent self-destruction.
Thus the Kennedys came across as crusaders not beholden to organized labor, yet remained acceptable to most union bosses.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_11_32/ai_72344901   (872 words)

  
 Bobby Kennedy - Team Manager   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Kennedy's vast racing experience has helped in his efforts to build two strong teams for Darrell Waltrip Motorsports.
When Darrell Waltrip was looking to hire Bobby Kennedy to manage his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series No. 17 NTN Bearings and No. 11 Toyota entries, he had to ask his brother Michael first.
Bobby and I have already raced together twice and soon to be a third time.
www.waltripracinginc.com /DW/bobbykennedy.htm   (1087 words)

  
 An interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., environmental advocate and Bush basher | By Amanda Griscom | Grist | Main Dish ...
Lately Kennedy ranks with Michael Moore, Al Gore, and Al Franken as one of the most vociferous and effective critics of the Bush administration.
Grist met with Kennedy at his office in White Plains, N.Y., to discuss his forthcoming book, his reputation as a champion of free markets, the connection between environmentalism and civil rights, and the ecological burden of having six kids.
You are well-known for converting celebrities and politicians to the environmental cause through speeches in which you frame environmentalism as a civil-rights issue.
www.grist.org /news/maindish/2004/07/13/griscom-kennedy   (3312 words)

  
 RFK
My brother [Bobby] 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.
Robert "Bobby" Kennedy was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy.
Bobby Kennedy established himself as a successful young attorney in his investigations of Jimmy Hoffa and other organized crime figures.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/1968/rfk.htm   (357 words)

  
 Riverkeeper.org, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
At Pace University School of Law, he is a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at the Environmental Litigation Clinic in White Plains, New York.
Kennedy served as Assistant District Attorney in New York City.
The New York City watershed agreement, which he negotiated on behalf of environmentalists and the city's watershed consumers, is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development.
www.riverkeeper.org /our_bio_rkennedy.php   (347 words)

  
 Bobby Kennedy in Rockaway
Bobby Kennedy was campaigning for the senate, sometime in 1964 (early September?) and he had a rally just off the boardwalk.
A number of people, Rick Gold included, said that Kennedy was actually in Manhattan Beach and that he was playing basketball nearby and actually shook hands with the Senatorial candidate.
Regarding the picture of Bobby Kennedy in 1964 at the boardwalk, I tried enlarging it to read the names of the stores, including the knish store, but it was too grainy to make out.
www.farrockaway.com /bobbykennedyinrockaway.html   (1087 words)

  
 Robert Francis Kennedy
Although Kennedy had supported his brother's intensification of American aid to the South Vietnamese government, he became increasingly critical of Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War and by 1968 was advocating that the Viet Cong be included in a South Vietnamese coalition government.
Kennedy conducted an energetic campaign and won a series of primary victories, culminating in California on June 4.
John F. Kennedy and the "secular" theology of the Houston speech, 1960.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0827382.html   (572 words)

  
 Bobby, I Didn't Know!
On the evening of June 5, 1998, the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, I was invited to speak on a panel at the Unitarian Church in Santa Monica.
I was only seventeen the night Bobby was shot but, as time would prove, I would wind up closer to his killers than I could ever have dreamed.
He had shown up at the Ambassador Hotel, unexpectedly a few minutes after Bobby was shot and just as a nine-minute unexplained radio flout had prevented officers from broadcasting descriptions of the girl in the polka dot dress and others who had been involved in Kennedy's murder.
www.fromthewilderness.com /free/pandora/rfk.html   (1839 words)

  
 BobbyDarin.net/BobbyDarin.com - Bobby Darin & Bobby Kennedy
Bobby Darin respected and admired Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
In fact, he believed in him so much that Darin campaigned for Kennedy during the Presidental elections in 1968.
"Robert Kennedy was a huge influence", Dodd Darin agreed on the PBS special, "He really believed that RFK was sincere and could change things...he was with him a couple of days before he was murdered...and that stunned him to the core."
www.bobbydarin.net /kennedy.html   (133 words)

  
 Bobby Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
On California's primary election night, Bobby Kennedy - senator from New York, former U.S. attorney general, and, of course, younger brother of the president slain four and a half years earlier - celebrated his crucial victory in that large state with a speech at his campaign headquarters in Los Angeles's fashionable Ambassador Hotel.
As Kennedy pushed through the throng, a dark-skinned young man - later identified as the partial amnesiac Sirhan - leaped at the senator and shouted, "Kennedy, you son of a bitch!" Flailing a.22 caliber pistol, he squeezed off a string of shots.
Kennedy crumpled, blood oozing from the back of his head and spreading smoothly into a pool on the pantry floor.
www.carpenoctem.tv /cons/rfk.html   (1744 words)

  
 Amazon.com: When Bobby Kennedy Was a Moving Man: Books: Robert Ellis Gordon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
While in lockup, Bobby refuses to eat, and his life--from child to senator, from cavorting with John to cavorting with Marilyn Monroe--plays out slowly and painfully in his mind.
Bobby works a final miracle before an audience of schoolchildren, ascending to heaven before their eyes after delivering a piano.
A rollicking, full-barrelled fantasy in which the foibles of dead Kennedys are as much a subject of caustic wit as more fictional material might be: a hard act to follow.
www.amazon.com /When-Bobby-Kennedy-Moving-Man/dp/0930773284   (1039 words)

  
 Robert F. Kennedy: Remembering Bobby: The Revolutionary Senator
Kennedy was fatally shot on June 5, 1968, just moments after winning the California Democratic primary.
In 1951, at the age of 26, Kennedy had left an investigative position at the Department of Justice to organize his brother John's bid for the Senate.
But while Kennedy pored over shipping logs, investigating trade practices with Communist China, McCarthy and his chief counsel Roy Cohn set about smearing leftists and drumming up accusations of subversion against members of the State Department, the US Army, and anyone else who would guarantee headlines.
www.jfk-online.com /rfk.html   (1700 words)

  
 Robert F. Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following law school, Kennedy managed his brother John's successful 1952 Senate campaign.
Hilty, James M. Robert Kennedy: Brother Protector (1997), vol.
Kennedy • Katzenbach • R Clark • J Mitchell • Kleindienst • Richardson • Saxbe • Levi • Bell • Civiletti • W Smith • Meese • Thornburgh • Barr • Reno • Ashcroft • Gonzales
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy   (3605 words)

  
 Robert F Kennedy Memorial
Robert F. Kennedy was a man of passionate conviction, carrying a message of change, and for the forlorn and dispossessed of America, a message of hope.
Robert Francis Kennedy was born on November 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the seventh child in the closely knit and competitive family of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy.
The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial approached a number of Robert F. Kennedy authors and historians in order produce a brief glimpse into the great man's life.
www.rfkmemorial.org /lifevision   (268 words)

  
 onegoodmove: Bobby Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy really doesn't understand how to analyze polling and election data and hasn't come up with anything new.
Average, you are right about the Kennedys though, and frankly Dems have got crap for leadership outside of a frosh named Obama.
The Kennedy's are a sad metaphor for the fading democracy of the USA.
onegoodmove.org /1gm/1gmarchive/2006/06/bobby_kennedy_j.html   (1754 words)

  
 American Experience | RFK | RFK's Enemies | PBS
Robert Kennedy's work hunting communists revealed a talent for such crusades.
As chief counsel for a Senate subcommittee investigating these "rackets," Kennedy went after the biggest fish possible, the 1.3-million-member Teamsters Union.
Kennedy's investigations convinced him that the Teamsters' president, Jimmy Hoffa, had worked with mobsters, extorted money from employers, and raided Teamster pension funds.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/rfk/sfeature/sf_enemies_03.html   (232 words)

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