Background Knowledge

Born: November 20, 1925, Brookline, MA

Spouse: Ethel Kennedy (m. 1950–1968)

Assassinated: June 6, 1968, Los Angeles, CA

On June 17, 1950, Robert F. Kennedy married socialite Ethel Skakel. The couple had eleven children; Kathleen, Joseph, Robert Jr., David, Courtney, Michael, Kerry, Christopher, Max, Douglas, and Rory. Rory was born the December after her father's assassination

Education: St. Paul's and Portsmouth Priory In September 1939, Robert began eighth grade at St. Paul's School, an elite Protestant private preparatory school for boys in Concord, New Hampshire His Mother enrolled him instead in Portsmouth Priory School, a Benedictine Catholic boarding school for boys in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where there were morning and evening prayers along with mass three times a week and high mass on Sundays, because she didn't like St. Paul's School Milton Academy In September 1942, Robert transferred to his third boarding school, Milton Academy, in Milton, Massachusetts,for eleventh and twelfth grades.

The Kennedy family at Hyannisport, Massachusetts in 1931 with Robert on bottom left in jacket. Ted was born the following year.

The Kennedy Family at Hyannis Port, 04 September 1931. L-R: Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Jean Kennedy (on lap of) Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (who was pregnant with Edward "Ted" Kennedy at time of this photo), Patricia Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (behind) Rosemary Kennedy. The dog in the foreground is "Buddy".

Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy was Attorney General during his brother JFK's administration. He later served as a U.S. Senator and was assassinated during his run for the presidency

Robert Kennedy (1925-1968) served as the U.S. attorney general from 1961 to 1964 and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 to 1968. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Kennedy was appointed attorney general after his brother John Kennedy (1917-1963) was elected president in 1960. In this role, Robert Kennedy fought organized crime and worked for civil rights for African Americans. He also served as a close advisor to the president. In the Senate, he was a committed advocate of the poor and racial minorities, and opposed escalation of the Vietnam War. On June 5, 1968, while in Los Angeles campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, Kennedy was shot. He died early the next day at age 42. Kennedy, the father of 11 children, was buried at Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery near the grave of his brother John.

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As senator, Kennedy championed civil rights and social justice issues. He traveled to Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, migrant workers’ camps and urban ghettos to study the effects of poverty, and made trips abroad to such places as apartheid-ruled South Africa to advocate for the advancement of human rights. Kennedy also spoke out against President Johnson’s policies to further escalate the war in Vietnam. In 1968, Kennedy was urged by his supporters to run for president as an antiwar and socially progressive Democratic. Hesitant until he saw positive primary returns for fellow antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005), Kennedy announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on March 16, 1968, declaring, “I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I’m obliged to do all I can.”

Wednesday Wars:

April: Bobby Kennedy is running for president June: When Bobby Kennedy is shot, Holling knows Shakespeare's world isn't reality. He and Heather walk to Saint Adelbert's to light candles, but Kennedy dies the following morning. Holling and Heather hold one another and cry.

Famous Quotes by Robert Kennedy

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

"One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time."

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly"

Sources

History.Com Wikipedia.org Google.com http://www.history.com/topics/robert-f-kennedy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+kennedy&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCnPXpkp7LAhXIQyYKHROeD4EQ_AUIBygB&biw=1366&bih=673#imgrc=_