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Robert F. Kennedy
Politician
Male
Born
Nov 20, 1925
Hometown
Brookline, Massac...
Died
Jun 6, 1968
Political Party
Democratic Party ...
Nationality
American
Alma Mater
Harvard College +...
Other Names
Robert Francis Ke...
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger… Read More
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Mary HarringtonDated 1964
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Olivia JohnsonDated 1947
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CHILDHOOD
1925
Birth
Kennedy was born on November 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the seventh child of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose E. Fitzgerald.
1927
1 Year Old
In September 1927, the Kennedy family moved to Riverdale, New York, a neighborhood in the Bronx, then two years later, moved northeast to Bronxville, New York.
1933
7 Years Old
Kennedy spent summers with his family at their home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and Christmas and Easter holidays with his family at their winter home in Palm Beach, Florida, purchased in 1933.
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TEENAGE
1942
16 Years Old
In September 1942, Kennedy transferred to Milton Academy, a third boarding school in Milton, Massachusetts, for eleventh and twelfth grades.
1944
18 Years Old
Six weeks before his eighteenth birthday, Kennedy enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve as an apprentice seaman, released from active duty until March 1944 when he left Milton Academy early to report to the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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1945
19 Years Old
On December 15, 1945, the U.S. Navy commissioned the destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., and shortly thereafter granted Kennedy's request to be released from naval-officer training to serve starting on February 1, 1946, as an apprentice seaman on the ship's shakedown cruise in the Caribbean.
TWENTIES
On May 30, 1946, he received his honorable discharge from the Navy.
Kennedy graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in government in March 1948 and immediately sailed off on with a college friend for a six-month tour of Europe and the Middle East, accredited as a correspondent of the Boston Post, for which he filed six stories.
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On June 17, 1950, Kennedy married Ethel Skakel at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Kennedy graduated from law school in June 1951 and flew with Ethel to Greenwich to stay in his father-in-law's guest house.
In February 1952, he was transferred to the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn to prosecute fraud cases.
THIRTIES
In 1960, he published the book The Enemy Within, describing the corrupt practices within the Teamsters and other unions that he had helped investigate; the book sold very well.
After performing well in the Senate hearing he easily won confirmation in January 1961.
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Kennedy remained committed to civil rights enforcement to such a degree that he commented, in 1962, that it seemed to envelop almost every area of his public and private life—from prosecuting corrupt southern electoral officials to answering late night calls from Coretta Scott King concerning the imprisonment of her husband for demonstrations in Alabama.
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Following his brother John's assassination on November 22, 1963, Kennedy continued to serve as Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson for nine months.
In September 1964, Kennedy resigned to seek the U.S. Senate seat from New York, which he won in November.
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In 1965 Robert Kennedy became the first person to summit Mount Kennedy.
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FORTIES
1966
40 Years Old
After the assassination of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy undertook a 1966 tour of South Africa in which he championed the cause of the anti-apartheid movement.
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Robert Kennedy did not strongly advocate withdrawal from Vietnam until 1967, within a week of Martin Luther King taking the same public stand. Consistent with President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, Robert Kennedy placed increasing emphasis on human rights as a central focus of U.S. foreign policy. In 1968, President Johnson began to run for reelection.
In January 1968, faced with what was widely considered an unrealistic race against an incumbent President, Senator Kennedy stated he would not seek the presidency.
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