Kennedy, Robert

Cultural  

1. A younger brother of President John F. Kennedy, who served as attorney general during his brother's presidency and was his brother's closest adviser. Robert Kennedy, also known as Bobby, was a champion of the civil rights movement and a foe of organized crime. He was elected to the Senate after John Kennedy's assassination. In 1968, while running for the presidential nomination of the Democratic party, he was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian, evidently because of Kennedy's position favoring Israel. (See Arab-Israeli conflict.)

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Example Sentences

Simon didn’t reference any current events beyond the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and John Lennon assassinations, but you could feel a contemporary gravity in the song.

From Los Angeles Times

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday which he says would declassify federal records surrounding the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

From Salon

US President Donald Trump has ordered the documents related to three of the most consequential assassinations in US history - the killings of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr - to be declassified.

From BBC

Kerry Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sister, has rebuked her brother for endorsing former President Donald Trump, characterizing the latter as an "inexplicable effort" to undermine their father's legacy.

From Salon

“In 1975,” Schickler said, referencing the attempts to kill Ford, “that’s still in the aftermath of the ’60s, where you have John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King … as well as a number of political bombings and political violence.

From Los Angeles Times