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Announced: March 16, 1968. Assassinated: June 6, 1968. Key people. Joseph Gargan, chairman [1] The Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign began on March 16, 1968, when Robert Francis Kennedy, a United States Senator from New York, mounted an unlikely challenge to incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Mar 16, 2008 · PAUL KIRK: Welcome to everyone. Welcome to what promises to be a memorable celebration of the 1968 presidential campaign of Robert Francis Kennedy. With all the clarity that hindsight affords, I submit that 40 years ago today began the most noble, valiant, three-month march ever undertaken in American politics. [applause] I believe I can speak for all of my colleagues gathered here this ...
Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer.He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Mar 17, 2018 · So it was not a shock when Kennedy told a breakfast of Washington journalists on January 30, 1968, that “under no foreseeable circumstances” would he run for president. (That breakfast happened...
On March 27, 1968, Kennedy announced his intention to run against McCarthy in the Indiana primary, although aides told him that a race in Indiana would be extremely tight and advised him against it. At the Indiana Statehouse , Kennedy told a cheering crowd that the state was important to his campaign: "If we can win in Indiana, we can win in ...
Jun 5, 2018 · The Bobby Kennedy Myth. ... delivering about 90 percent for Kennedy, he was running 2 to 1 ahead in some Polish districts.” ... had shown to be an unexpectedly close race against McCarthy, Ethel ...
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Jun 5, 2018 · In his race against the incumbent, Republican senator Kenneth Keating, Bobby was called a carpetbagger from Massachusetts and proved to be a flat public speaker. But none of that seemed to...
