Kennedy, Robert

A younger brother of President John F. Kennedy , who served as attorney general during his brother's presidency and was his brother's closest adviser. Robert Kennedy, also known as Bobby, was a champion of the civil rights movement and a foe of organized crime. He was elected to the Senate after John Kennedy's assassination. In 1968, while running for the presidential nomination of the Democratic party , he was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian, evidently because of Kennedy's position favoring Israel . ( See Arab-Israeli conflict .)

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday which he says would declassify federal records surrounding the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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US President Donald Trump has ordered the documents related to three of the most consequential assassinations in US history - the killings of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr - to be declassified.

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Kerry Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sister, has rebuked her brother for endorsing former President Donald Trump, characterizing the latter as an "inexplicable effort" to undermine their father's legacy.

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“In 1975,” Schickler said, referencing the attempts to kill Ford, “that’s still in the aftermath of the ’60s, where you have John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King … as well as a number of political bombings and political violence.

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Kerry Kennedy, Robert’s daughter, is a human rights lawyer who heads the non-profit RFK Human Rights.

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