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Top 10 Outstanding Facts about Robert Kennedy.

Robert Francis Kennedy also referred to by his initials RFK or by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who 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. 

He gained national attention as the chief counsel of the Senate Labour Rackets Committee from 1957 to 1959.

He boldly confronted Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa over the union’s corrupt practices. Kennedy resigned from the committee to run his brother’s1960 presidential campaign.

Americans remember Robert F. Kennedy as the Democratic candidate for president in 1968. Sadly,  an assassin cut short his life on June 5, 1968.

Here are 10 outstanding facts about RFK.

1. After Martin Luther King Jr. was Assassinated RFK opened up about his Brother’s Death.

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In 1968, while RFK was campaigning in Indianapolis, Indiana when he got information that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

His campaign stops that time comprised of largely African-American crowd, he told them of the shocking news and then, in an emotionally frank speech, Kennedy eulogized the civil rights leader.

He called for an end to violence and social injustice and addressed for the first time in public the assassination of his brother President John F.

 “For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and distrust at the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I can only say that I feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling,” Kennedy said. “I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man,” he said.

2.   Robert Kennedy Inspired Jerry Springer.

His first political hero was Robert F. Kennedy. He got involved in Kennedy’s Democratic presidential nomination. A campaign cut short by the assassination of Kennedy.

Jerry Springer believed Bobby Kennedy was in politics for all the right reasons.

He thought that RFK cared about marginalised people. 

Before Jerry Springer became the host of his eponymous show, he served as the mayor of Cleveland and unsuccessfully ran for Congress events that might not have happened if it weren’t for RFK, then the Senator from New York.

After Kennedy’s assassination sprinter kept the slain candidate’s mission alive in his career in public service.

Due to Bobby’s influence, he has raised enormous amounts of money over the years for the Democratic Party in Ohio and Cincinnati and for countless Democratic candidates.

3. Robert Kennedy Debated Ronald Reagan in 1967.

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On May 15, 1967, there was a fascinating debate between California’s new Republican governor, Ronald Reagan, and New York’s new Democratic senator, Robert F. Kennedy.

The subject: the Vietnam War. The debate was titled 鈥淭he Image of America and the Youth of the World,鈥� and was billed by CBS as a 鈥淭own Meeting of the World.鈥�

15 million Americans watched the debate. 

Reagan’s ease with which he fielded questions about Vietnam left veteran campaigner Kennedy blinking when the session ended.

It is alleged that Kennedy was heard to ask immediately after the debate, ‘who the f鈥�- got me into this?鈥�

There was total agreement, including among media sources who revered Bobby Kennedy, from the San Francisco Chronicle to Newsweek, that Reagan overwhelmingly won the debate.

4. RFK Climbed Mount Kennedy.

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In 1965 National Geographic Society sponsored an excursion of Mount Kennedy. The RFK team of climbers reached the summit of the 14,000-foot Canadian mountain.

Interestingly, he had no previous climbing experience. Up to that point, Mount Kennedy was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. It had been named after President John F. Kennedy months earlier.

Later,  his brother Ted joked to the press reminding them that RFK was not the first Kennedy to climb a mountain.

I climbed the Matterhorn in 1957, which is higher, and I didn’t need the help of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.”

5.  Robert Kennedy and FDR Were Avid Stamp Collectors.

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The ties between the Roosevelt and Kennedy families go back to World War I when Franklin D. Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Joseph Kennedy was the Assistant General Manager of the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation in Quincy, Massachusetts

The ties between FDR and Joseph Kennedy extended to the next generation of Kennedys. In 1935, FDR learned that young Bobby Kennedy was a stamp collector and sent the boy some stamps for his collection.

Eleven-year-old RFK was a budding philatelist, a hobby he shared with then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR invite the young Kennedy to go through his collection. 

The  National Archives has preserved correspondences between FDR and RFK regarding stamp collection.

6. Robert Kennedy was an Animal Lover.

In August of 1962, The New York Times wrote about Attorney General Kennedy’s dog Brumus, who was a regular visitor to the Justice Department.

The article stated that he is a Labrador dog but other sources claim he was a Newfoundland.

Kennedy gave the reason for coming to the office with his dog was the children are away on vacation and he gets very lonely.

In addition to Brumus, the rest of the Kennedy family’s pets included two other dogs, ponies, horses, geese, a burro, a sea lion, Hungarian pigeons, 20 goldfish, rabbits, turtles and a salamander.

7. Robert Kennedy  Played Football at Harvard

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Bobby Kennedy played football for Harvard in 1945, 1946 and 1947 Harvard Programs.

His picture is in Harvard program from this period, making them collectable. 

The Kennedys were famous for playing touch football, but as a student, Robert played on the varsity squad at college during the 1947 season and wore number 86 until he broke his leg.

Kennedy won a varsity letter when he returned briefly after his injury.

For many young men, the experience of making the college varsity team can be a true rite of passage. College football is not only for those who want to go pro. It’s also for those who simply want to prove themselves.

8. RFK  Served as New York Senator.

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Robert Francis Kennedy was born on November 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the seventh child in the closely knit and competitive family of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy. 

Nine months after his brother鈥檚 death, Robert Kennedy ran for the U.S. Senate in the state of New York.

Although he was legally qualified and the family had lived in the state for some time he did not vie in Massachusetts.

 His opponents called him a 鈥渃arpetbagger.鈥� Kennedy won the election as part of the Johnson landslide in 1964.

9.  Robert Kennedy  Assassin is Still Alive.

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The death penalty was outlawed by the Californian court thus Sirhan Sirhan鈥檚 death sentence was commuted.

 Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, California is Sirhan’s current address.

The late Robert F Kennedy family was devastated when the California Board of Parole released  Sirhan Sirhan’s.

But in a twist of events, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he had exercised his authority to reverse the board’s ruling and deny parole to Sirhan.

Newsom highlighted his reasons were based on Sirhan鈥檚 role as a 鈥減otent symbol of political violence鈥� and his refusal 鈥渢o accept responsibility for the crimes.鈥�

10. RFK Tried to get LBJ to Drop as his Brother鈥檚 Running Mate.

Kennedy chose Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, who had finished second on the presidential ballot, as his running mate.

Johnson, a Protestant Texan, provided geographical and religious balance to a ticket led by a Catholic Northeasterner but many liberals did not like the pick.

With RFK as his campaign manager, John F. Kennedy won the Democratic nomination for president in 1960 with just enough votes, despite a last-ditch effort by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson and his supporters to stop him.

To smooth relations in the party, JFK asked Johnson to be his vice president鈥攁nd, according to RFK, Johnson shocked the Kennedy campaign by accepting.

Bobby Kennedy did not believe that Johnson was the best running mate.

RFK went to Johnson’s hotel room to talk him out of it but that awkward move only intensified their bitter enmity.

Finally, JFK called Johnson and smoothed things over.

Kennedy was just 42 years old and in the midst of one of the most controversial presidential campaigns of the 20th century.

President Lyndon Johnson had dropped from the race in March 1968 and Kennedy and Vice President Hubert Humphrey were heading to the Chicago convention with the nomination unsettled.

Kennedy鈥檚 assassination stunned America, coming just months after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis.

Here are 10 facts about Kennedy, who spent nearly half of his young life in public service.