Robert F. Kennedy | |
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Succeeded by | Charles Goodell |
64th United States Attorney General | |
In office January 21, 1961 – September 3, 1964 | |
President | John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson |
Mar 16, 2021 · Robert Francis Kennedy. Sixty-Fourth Attorney General 1961-1964. Robert Francis Kennedy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 20, 1925. He served with the United States Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946. He earned a B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1948, was a correspondent on The Boston Post, and in 1951 graduated from the University of …
Nicholas KatzenbachNick KatzenbachDeputyRamsey ClarkPreceded byRobert KennedySucceeded byRamsey Clark7th United States Deputy Attorney General29 more rows
Kennedy is fatally shot. Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary.
Kennedy appointed two men to the Supreme Court of the United States: Byron White and Arthur Goldberg.
Caught off guard by the violence that erupted during the May 14 Anniston, AL bus burning and the riot at Birmingham Trailways Bus Station, Robert Kennedy dispatched special assistant John Seigenthaler to Birmingham, AL to aid the embattled CORE Freedom Riders.
After several minutes, medical attendants arrived and lifted Kennedy onto a stretcher, prompting him to whisper, "Don't lift me", which were his last words, as he lost consciousness shortly after.
He is a nephew of president and senator John F. Kennedy, and senator Ted Kennedy. Kennedy grew up at his family's homes in McLean, Virginia, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Kenneth Patrick O'Donnell (March 4, 1924 – September 9, 1977) was an American political consultant and the special assistant and appointments secretary to President John F.
Chief Justice Earl Warren[President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy (left) with Chief Justice Earl Warren and Mrs. Warren (right) at reception for Supreme Court justices] | Library of Congress.
The focus of this lesson will be on six important members of Kennedy's security team: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Chairman of the Policy Planning Commission Walt Rostow, Undersecretary of State George Ball, and Director of the Central ...Sep 29, 2021
Attorney General Robert Kennedy sent 400 federal marshals to protect the Freedom Riders and urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to order the desegregation of interstate travel.
JFK and MLK shared an era and a cause, but they were not close allies, as the tone of these remarks makes clear. They admired each other's best qualities but were suspicious of the other's flaws.Jan 20, 2014
King's direct appeal to U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy forced a reluctant Alabama Governor John Patterson to reverse decades of practice and provide equal protection for the protesters as they left Alabama.
After winning the 1960 presidential election, President-elect John F. Kennedy appointed his younger brother attorney general. The choice was controversial, with publications including The New York Times and The New Republiccalling him inexperienced and unqualified. He had no experience in any state or federal court, causing the president to joke, "I can't see that it's wrong to give him a littl…
Robert Francis Kennedy was born outside Boston in Brookline, Massachusetts, on November 20, 1925. He was the seventh of nine children to businessman/politician Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and philanthropist/socialite Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. His parents were members of two prominent Irish-American families in Boston. His eight siblings were Joseph Jr., John, Rosemary, Kathleen,
Six weeks before his 18th birthday in 1943, Kennedy enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve as a seaman apprentice. He was released from active duty in March 1944, when he left Milton Academy early to report to the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His V-12 training began at Harvard (March–November 1944) before he was relocate…
In September 1946, Kennedy entered Harvard as a junior, having received credit for his time in the V-12 program. He worked hard to make the varsity football team as an end; he was a starter and scored a touchdown in the first game of his senior year before breaking his leg in practice. He earned his varsity letter when his coach sent him in wearing a cast during the last minutes of a game against
In November 1951, Kennedy moved with his wife and daughter to a townhouse in the Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and started work as a lawyer in the Internal Security Section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He prosecuted a series of graft and income tax evasion cases. In February 1952, Kennedy was transferred to Brooklyn, and worked as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New Yorkto help prepare fraud cases against former officials …
In the wake of the assassination of his brother and Lyndon Johnson's ascension to the presidency, with the office of vice president now vacant, Kennedy was viewed favorably as a potential candidate for the position in the 1964 presidential election. Several Kennedy partisans called for him to be drafted in tribute to his brother; national polling showed that three of four Democrats wer…
Nine months after his brother's assassination, Kennedy left the cabinet to run for a seat in the U.S. Senate representing New York, announcing his candidacy on August 25, 1964, two days before the end of that year's Democratic National Convention. He had considered the possibility of running for the seat since early spring, but also giving consideration for governor of Massachusetts or, as he p…