Robert Francis Kennedy (* 20 November 1925 in Brookline, Massachusetts; "† (murdered) 6 June 1968 in Los Angeles, California), was a younger brother of the murdered US president John F. Kennedy, which aimed at after a career as senate lawyer, Minister of Justice and a senator the office for US president and - in promising hope for a choice victory - also an assassination attempt to the victim fell.

Life

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy ("RFK") was the seventh child of Joseph P. Kennedy and rose Kennedy. It studied jurisprudence to the Harvard University and the University OF Virginia, where it made also 1951 its conclusion. Between them it served short time in the Navy. 1952 it led first the election campaign of his brother John around a seat in the U.S. - Senate, later around the office of the US president.

After the victory of John F. Kennedy 1961 this appointed it as a Minister of Justice into its cabinet. Into this time the pig bay invasion and the Cuba crisis fell, in whose process it developed to one of the closest advisors of the president. In addition it did out as engaged of the organized crime. After the murder of its brother it left 1964 the government and stood as a candidate for the office of the senator of New York. It won the election campaign against Kenneth Keating and was from 1965-1968 senator.

1968 were Robert Kennedy promising presidency candidate of the democrats. After the renouncement president Lyndon B. Johnsons of a candidacy it was faced with thereby senator Eugene McCarthy and vice-president Hubert H. Humphrey. Its at short notice more organized and often improvised election campaign encountered unexpected resonance. Kennedys of appearances released an inspiring storm v. A. among Afroamerikanern and Latin American immigrants, which were in the history of American preselections without example. It had won the straight preselections in California, angeschossen as it briefly after midnight 5 of June, after a short thank speech in the ballroom of the hotel "Ambassador" in Los Angeles, became. As an author the Palestinian immigrant became Sirhan Bishara Sirhan at the scene, which arrested cold kitchen of the hotel. Kennedy died one day later at its injuries. Its alleged murderer sits today, after the death sentence which was issued against him 1969 was converted into life imprisonment, its punishment in the state prison of Corcoran, California, off.

In his basic attitudes Robert F was affected. Kennedy of Edith Hamilton. It was later decided opponent of the racial discrimination, as Ministers of Justice a unerschrockener fighter against the mafia and a violent critic of the Viet Nam politics Lyndon B. Johnsons.

Doubt about (however) the complicity Sirhans

Whether Sirhan implemented the act actually alone was pulled and/or whether he could be applicable at all as a murderer Robert F. Kennedys, already early by eye-witnesses of the events in doubts. The closer circumstances of the act and many inconsistencies with the police determinations feed to today the suspicion that Kennedy a Komplott fell to the victim. Thus did not result in the findings of the official Leichenbeschauers of LA County, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, an agreement of the firing wounds in Kennedys body with the position, from which Sirhan had aimed at the senator. Besides at the scene more were found, than Sirhans weapon could hold. Second contactors must have been therefore also in the play, which would fulfill the facts of the conspiracy.

Due to indications and searches for many years, among other things his lawyer of many years Lawrence Teeter, maintains Sirhan today under involuntary Hypnose at Kennedy to have shot - as more consciousness-manipulated, a "remote controlled killer" - and therefore to be actually innocent. The shot wounds, which caused Kennedys death, would know besides, in accordance with the findings of the Leichenbeschauers, not its - Sirhans - weapon are assigned.

During its lifetimes Teeter fought in vain for a resumption of the procedure against its mandator. It is also at the end of of 2005 still with the highest high court of state of California pending.

Note: The most important primary sources for the discussion around the RFK murder are into the "California State Archives" in Sacramento as well as in "Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives Collection", special archives of the university of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, which was developed by Professor Philip H. Melanson, a Politologen and an author of a fundamental study to the murder case RFK ("The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination - Conspiracy and Cover UP", Shapolski, New York, 1991).

Private life

While one ski vacation in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada in the winter 1945 became acquainted with Robert the sister of its friend Patricia, Ethel Skakel. Bobby and Ethel married finally on 17 June 1950.

From the marriage eleven children originate:

• Kathleen Harlington Kennedy (1951)
• Joseph Patrick Kennedy II. (1952)
• Robert Francis Kennedy jr. (1954)
• David Anthony Kennedy (1955-1984) died at an overdose drugs
• Mary Courtney Kennedy (1956)
• Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (1958-1997) died in a ski accident
• Mary Kerry Kennedy (1959)
• Christopher George Kennedy (1963)
• Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy (1965)
• Douglas Harriman Kennedy (1967)
• Rory Elizabeth Katharine Kennedy (1968), which was born after the death of its father

Rumors to-follow had Kennedy, like also his brother John F., into the 1960ern an affair with Marilyn Monroe.

Quotations

• "Which we need in the United States, are not not splitting, are not hate, are not force and lawlessness, but love, wisdom, sympathy are for each other and a justice feeling for in our country, which suffer, it now white or black (...)." (Robert F. Kennedy in a speech after the murder of the civil rights activist Martin Luther King June. in April 1968)

• "Which at extremists to reject and is dangerous, is less their extremism than their intolerance. Here the evil lies not in what they say about their own request, but in what they spread over their opponents." (out: Confession to the justice (The Pursuit OF Justice), 1964; dt. in the Heyne publishing house, 1966, P. 77)

• "The largest Scandinavian nation of the world are the USA. The largest Irish nation of the world are the USA. The second largest German nation of the world are the USA. And one could say something similar of other groups of the American population." (a.a.O., P. 79)

Publications

• Gangster urge to power (original title: The Enemy Within). Munich, joke 1964
• Confession to the justice (original title: The Pursuit OF Justice). Duesseldorf, Econ 1966
• Liberty and responsibility in the democracy. 38 speeches. Reinbek, Rowohlt 1967
• Search for a new world (original title: Ton of Seek A Newer World). Bertelsmann 1968
• Thirteen days. The prevention of the Third World War by the brothers Kennedy (original title: Thirteen Days. A Memoir OF the Cuban Missile Crisis). Munich, joke 1969

Literature

Yoash Tatari: "End of an American dream. The assassination attempt on Robert F. Kennedy", P. 99-137, in: Heribert Blondiau (Hg.): "Death on order. Political murder in the 20-century". Ullstein publishing house, Munich 2002. ISBN 3-548-36331-8.

Related links

• The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives Collection
• California State Archives' Collection: Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Investigation
• 3SAT transmission to the assassination attempt at Robert F. Kennedy
• Report to murder
• RFK Gedenkseite English.
• Who shot Current information for the resumption of the procedure against Sirhan B. Sirhan dt. and English.
• WHO KILLED ROBERT F.

See also: Kennedy clan

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