1. Robert Francis
Kennedy
1925 - 1968
Attorney General &
Childhood Early Career Civil Rights Advocate
Presidential Advisor
Chief ’60 JFK
Counsel appoints RFK
Born Senate Labor U.S.
November Relations 57- Attorney ’64 wins NY
20, 1925 59 General Senate Seat
’68
Passes Bar ’59 Runs JFK ’63 JFK announces
Exam 1951 Presidential Assassinated Presidential
Campaign Candidacy

2. Small,
Serious &
Fearful

3. Child of Privilege
Kennedy children at London zoo
Moved to Great Britain at 12 when father, Joe became ambassador to U.K.

4. Middle Child

5. Dutiful Son
Oldest brother Joe died as war hero
19 year-old Bobby sworn into Navy

6. Competitor/Hero

7. Rookie Attorney

8. Courageous Destroyer
Tense conversation with Jimmy Hoffa
Witness testifying to Senate Committee
Formed to Investigate Labor Racketeering

9. Devoted Father
1967: Robert F.
Kennedy and
youngest son
Douglas.

10. Brother Protector

11. Defender of Justice - Attorney General
Kennedy expressed the
administration's commitment to
civil rights 1961
“ We will not stand by or be
aloof—we will move. I happen to
believe that the 1954 [Supreme
Court school desegregation]
decision was right. But my belief
does not matter. It is now the law.
Some of you may believe the
decision was wrong. That does not
matter. It is the law.[13] ”

12. Advisor to
President
Kennedy
During the
Cuban
missile crisis
1962

14. Defender of Freedom
Alabama Guardsmen Protecting Freedom Rider Bus

17. Grieving
Brother

18. Senator from New York

19. Searching and Transformation

20. War Opponent

21. Champion of
Underprivileged
1964 - New York Bedford-
Stuyvesant Restoration Project

23. RFK in Africa
1966
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or
acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out
against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of
hope, and crossing each other from a million
different centers of energy and daring, those
ripples build a current that can sweep down
the mightiest walls of oppression and
resistance.”
RKF Speech to South African Students

24. With Caesar Chavez

25. April 4, 1968
RFK on assassination
of MLK
“What we need in the United
States is not hatred. What we
need in the United States is not
violence and lawlessness but is
love and wisdom.
… a feeling of justice toward
those who still suffer within our
country, whether they be white
or whether they be black."

26. Robert F. Kennedy campaigning for the Democratic presidential
nomination in Detroit, May 15, 1968.
Andrew Sacks—Hulton Arhive/Getty Images

27. Mindless Menace of Violence Speech
April 5, 1968
by MindwalkerStudios
Excerpt from film by Mindwalker Studios – You Tube

28. “Is everyone
okay?”
RFK’s last words
Midnight on June 5, 1968, at the
Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles,
California.
Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan
was arrested and charged with the
murder.