Robert F. Kennedy, left, Counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, confers with his brothers Edward Kennedy, center, and Sen. John F. Kennedy during a committee hearing in Washington, D.C., in 1959. (AP Photo)
This gif art is a recreation of an actual event. Jackie Kennedy had a still-birth during the early years of her marriage to JFK. When this happened, JFK was out sailing with friends, and Bobby Kennedy was there by Jackie’s side when it happened. He was the one who had to tell Jackie she had lost the baby, and comfort her in her grief.
“Beating the odds, in the context of privilege, sums up Kennedy’s life. As the one Kennedy brother who was short, slight and lacking in natural athletic ability, he was the only one to win a Harvard varsity football letter. He played one game with a broken leg. Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa, a dangerous enemy, dismissed him as “the runt of the litter,” an unintentional compliment.”
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Bobby age 12, with his father, mother and four of his eight siblings at the United States Embassy in London, 1938.
(L-R: Joe Sr., Teddy, Bobby, Kick, Pat, Rose, and Jean)
Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher, Peter Lawford, Robert F. Kennedy, Jack Benny, and Kirk Douglas at a benefit for Cedars-Sinai Hospital, 1961
“Every four years, we’ve been bitterly frustrated by the failure of our candidates for the White House to live up to RFK’s standards. Now that I am much older, I realize what I should have known in 1968 – that Robert Kennedy was irreplaceable.” -Philip W. Johnston
On June 5, 1968, New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president. His death, which occurred only two months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., came as a terrible shock to the already grieving nation.
Three days later, a funeral train carried his coffin from New York to its final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery. Hundreds of thousands of people stood patiently in the searing heat as the train traveled slowly en route to Washington, DC. Paul Fusco, then a staff photographer for LOOK magazine, accompanied the train on its journey. The images he made reveal the respect that the American people—both rich and poor, Black and white—held for RFK, a man who had come to symbolize social justice and hope for a better tomorrow.
On June 5, 1968, New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president. His death, which occurred only two months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., came as a terrible shock to the already grieving nation.
Three days later, a funeral train carried his coffin from New York to its final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery. Hundreds of thousands of people stood patiently in the searing heat as the train traveled slowly en route to Washington, DC. Paul Fusco, then a staff photographer for LOOK magazine, accompanied the train on its journey. The images he made reveal the respect that the American people—both rich and poor, Black and white—held for RFK, a man who had come to symbolize social justice and hope for a better tomorrow.
