On March 16, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of assassinated president John F. Kennedy, announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Robert Kennedy, a legal counsel for various Senate subcommittees during the 1950s, served as the manager of his brother's successful presidential campaign in 1960. Appointed attorney general by President Kennedy, he proved a vigorous member of the cabinet, zealously prosecuting cases relating to civil rights while closely advising the president on various domestic and foreign issues. After Kennedy's assassination in 1963, he joined President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, but resigned in 1964 to run successfully in New York for a Senate seat. Known in Congress as an advocate of social reform and defender of the rights of minorities, he also voiced criticism of the war in Vietnam. In 1968, he was urged by many of his supporters to run for president as an anti-war and socially progressive Democratic....
On this day in 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a presidential candidate, is shot three times in a hail of gunfire in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
On April 27, 1968, Hubert Humphrey, vice president to President Lyndon Johnson, declared his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. One month earlier, President Johnson, citing national...
At 12:50 a.m. PST on the morning of June 5, Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York, a presidential candidate, was fatally shot in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. He had just...
On March 10, 1968, the New York Times revealed that General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. operations in Vietnam, had asked the Johnson administration for 200,000 more troops for the...
On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot and killed by a sniper while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine in Memphis,...
Robert F. Kennedy first gained national prominence in the late 1950s as the chief counsel of a Senate committee investigating corruption in organized labor. The Teamsters Union, the largest union...
John F. Kennedy, the youngest candidate ever elected to the presidency, proved a fitting representative of the youthful and energetic spirit of America during the early 1960s. Like Theodore...
On July 5, 1960, Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president. With the Democratic National Convention less than a week away, Johnson...
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