Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F.
Kennedy was an American politician and lawyer, younger brother of President John F.
Kennedy.
He served as U.S.
Attorney General under his brother's administration and later as a New York senator.
His 1968 presidential campaign ended with his assassination in Los Angeles.
Often called Bobby Kennedy or RFK, he remains associated with civil rights advocacy and opposition to the Vietnam War.
Upper chamber member
- liberalOpen to reform
- primaryChief in importance
- IndianaMidwestern state, nineteenth admitted
- CaliforniaWest coast megastate
Oregon · McCarthy · Humphrey · LBJ · antiwar · delegate · nomination · rally
Transportation workers' labor organization
- racketeeringConducting illegal business schemes
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- wiretappingCovert phone surveillance
- FBIU.S. domestic intelligence agency
Severe lack of resources
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- DelanoRoosevelt family name
- Bedford-StuyvesantBrooklyn residential district
- AppalachiaEastern U.S. mountain region
humanitarian · empathy · conscience · hunger
Household provisions closet
Diminutive of Robert
- RFKSlain senator's monogram
- EthelNoble-meaning feminine name
- JFK35th president's monogram
- Irish-AmericanOf Gaelic ancestry, stateside
Source of creative impulse
- idealismBelief in noble principles
- hopeDesire for good outcomes
- transformationThorough change in form
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
senator
Upper chamber member
California · Oregon · McCarthy · Humphrey · LBJ · antiwar · delegate · nomination · rally · grassroots
Teamsters
Transportation workers' labor organization
- racketeeringConducting illegal business schemes
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- wiretappingCovert phone surveillance
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- DelanoRoosevelt family name
- Bedford-StuyvesantBrooklyn residential district
Appalachia · humanitarian · empathy · conscience · hunger
pantry
Household provisions closet
Bobby
Diminutive of Robert
inspiration
Source of creative impulse
- idealismBelief in noble principles
- hopeDesire for good outcomes
- transformationThorough change in form
Robert F. KennedyGeorge Wallace
Alabama segregationist politician
Barry Goldwater · Joseph McCarthy · segregationists · Richard Nixon · J. Edgar Hoover