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"In 1957 Kennedy was appointed chief counsel to Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor of Management Field.

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On June 5, 1968, following his victory speech at the California Democratic Primary at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Kennedy was shot several times by gunman On June 6, Kennedy's body was taken to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC. He also set his sights on becoming a U.S. presidential candidate.In 1968 Kennedy ran against Eugene McCarthy in the presidential election primaries.

Robert F. Kennedy (right) with his brother John F. Kennedy (left) and J. Edgar Hoover, 1961. The next morning a line of mourners extending 25 blocks long waited to pay their respects.

By the afternoon hundreds of thousands more people bid farewell to Kennedy as they watched his coffin pass via funeral train en route to Washington, D.C. Kennedy was buried near his brother, John, at Arlington Cemetery.Kennedy and his wife Ethel had 11 children: Kathleen, Joseph, Robert Jr., David (1955–1984), Courtney, Michael (1958–1997), Kerry, Christopher, Max, Douglas, and Rory (b.

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy campaigning for the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, Philadelphia, April 1968.Robert F. Kennedy addressing a crowd moments before he was fatally wounded at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, June 5, 1968. During that time he met and married his sister’s roommate, a fellow student named Ethel Skakel. His parents were Joseph, a rich businessman, and When Robert’s father, Joseph Sr., became a U.S. ambassador to Britain, the family moved to England.

After Kennedy's death, she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president, negotiated the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and initiated the Alliance for Progress.

(From left to right) Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy at the White House, 1963.John F. Kennedy, Jr. (foreground), saluting the casket of his father, President Kennedy, during the funeral services on November 25, 1963, Washington D.C. Jacqueline Kennedy—standing with her daughter, Caroline—is flanked by Robert F. Kennedy (right) and Ted Kennedy (left). RFK was assassinated on June 5, 1968, during the California Democratic presidential primary.

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By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. He was assassinated in 1963.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the son of former New York senator and U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, and nephew of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy.Known as the "Lion of the Senate," Democrat Ted Kennedy was a staunch liberal who was elected to Congress nine times, spearheading many legislative reforms.Joseph P. Kennedy is best known as the father of three political leaders: President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Representative Ted Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, who served as a U.S. senator and attorney general.American actor Robert Reed played quintessential family man Mike Brady in the popular sitcom 'The Brady Bunch' from 1969 to 1974.The first female prime minister of Britain, Margaret Thatcher was a controversial figurehead of conservative ideology during her time in office.Robert Kennedy was attorney general during his brother John F. Kennedy's administration. He died the next day.Robert Francis Kennedy, nicknamed Bobby, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on November 20, 1925. He later served as a U.S.