RFK

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• SOURCE: PoliticalWire
  6-5-18
  

  Why RFK's assassination still matters today

  by Leonard Steinhorn

  As we look back on Robert Kennedy's death, we can trace a straight line from that tragic moment 50 years ago at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles to the racial resentments and grievances that Richard Nixon validated to the presidency of Donald J. Trump today.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  6-2-18
  

  Rosey Grier: The Lineman Who Tried to Save RFK—And Voted for Trump

  by Gil Troy

  The arc of Rosey Grier’s political life challenges both parties—and both sides of the culture wars.

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• 6-4-18
  

  Who Killed RFK? Sirhan Sirhan Did It.

  by Mel Ayton

  You can forget the belief he was put up to it by a hypnotist.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-1-18
  

  How Robert Kennedy’s Assassination Changed American Politics

  Coming after MLK's death, RFK's robbed many blacks and liberals of hope.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  6/1/18
  

  Now 2 of RFK’s children are calling for a fresh investigation of his assassination

  They are not convinced that Sirhan Sirhan killed him.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  5-31-18
  

  Writer impressed with Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s evolving attitude toward Robert Kennedy

  by David Margolick

  In his 6,000 word daily journal Schlesinger never even bothered to note when he first met RFK. Later he fell in love.

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• SOURCE: WSP
  2-12-18
  

  RFK's visit to Appalachia, 50 years later: How Kennedy country became Trump country

  Children of Kennedy Democrats are Trump Republicans. And for those inspired by RFK in 1968, what should be a happy anniversary is instead an occasion to puzzle a drastic reversal of political fortune.

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• 9-17-17
  

  It’s Good to See the Mainstream Media Debunking Conspiracy Claims, but Where Were They Years Ago When RFK’s Death Became Fodder for Nutty Stories?

  by Mel Ayton

  Hopefully they’ll do better next year on the 50th anniversary.

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• 3-11-16
  

  Why I Miss the Kennedys

  by Walter G. Moss

  We could use their mix of idealism and realism again.

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• 12-7-14
  

  What if Americans Outlawed Private Gun Ownership?

  by Jeff Roquen

  Imagine how different the world might be if Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King had lived.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  11-24-13
  

  Robert F. Kennedy saw conspiracy in JFK’s assassination

  RFK responded to his brother's assassination with crippling grief and growing suspicions.

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• 11-18-13
  

  The Kennedys and Martin Luther King

  by Yohuru Williams

  King and the Kennedys remain important symbols of the power of hope and the promise of a just democracy.

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  10-21-13
  

  Did RFK swipe JFK's missing brain?

  And is this headline clickbait? You bet!

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• 5-7-12
  

  CNN's Conspiracy Bias in the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination

  by Mel Ayton

  Now major news organizations appear to be leading the conspiracy charge.

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• Bobby Kennedy in The Sixties: A Photographer's Reminiscence

  by Bill Eppridge

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• Robert F. Kennedy and the 82 Days That Inspired America

  by Thurston Clarke

   In 1968, America was a wounded nation.

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• The Kennedy Brothers and Civil Rights

  by Sheldon M. Stern

  In The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality, Basic Books, 2006, Nick Bryant concludes that JFK was too cautious and hesitant on civil rights.

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• The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the Girl in the Polka Dot Dress

  by Mel Ayton

  For the past forty years the issue of conspiracy in the Robert Kennedy assassination has continued to haunt America.

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• The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: The Acoustics Evidence

  by Steve Barber

  Some years following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel on the night of June 4/5 1968 critics of the official version of the assassination said there were audio recordings of more than 8 shots fired when RFK was shot.

• Conspiracy Thinking and the John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Assassinations: Part I

  by Mel Ayton

  A child dies from some unexplained illness; fisherman sail off never to return; random violence takes the life of an innocent bystander. And always behind these tragic events lies the question – Why?