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

Kerry Kennedy, Robert’s daughter, is a human rights lawyer who heads the non-profit RFK Human Rights.

From Seattle Times

It’s present, he pointed out, in the very name of a law passed after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Gun Control Act of 1968.

From New York Times

But another Kennedy, Robert’s sister Eunice, drew Johnson into her effort to create the Special Olympics for people with disabilities.

From New York Times

Mr. Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, was 15 and lived in the same gated community as Ms. Moxley.

From New York Times