On June 5 of that same year, Senator
Robert F. Kennedy - brother of assassinated President John F.
"In difficult political times, the power of expression and freedom of the press is more important than ever," said Kerry Kennedy, President of
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
Hines and Kennedy Jr., the son of Ethel and
Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F.
Kennedy III, the son of environmental activist
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The RFK Journalism Awards honors outstanding reporting on issues that reflect
Robert F. Kennedy's concerns, including human rights, social justice and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world.
Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: Norton, 1969); Bruce J.
and progressive presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.
efforts to eliminate Castro, headed by President Kennedy's brother, Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy. In the political milieu of the times, had those activities become known, they could well have led to nuclear war.
Speaking at the meeting of the Natural Resources Defense Council on June 20,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Such was the case with
Robert F. Kennedy. He spent much of his career ruthlessly helping his brother John win headlines and elections, then served as his attorney general in an administration that made little policy progress before ending abruptly with an assassin's bullet.
Six months before
Robert F. Kennedy was killed, I had occasion to inventory the theories of what made him tick.
Later this spring, Wellstone will retrace the steps of
Robert F. Kennedy, Who took camera crews to the segregated towns of the Mississippi Delta, the Indian Reservations of the Dakotas, the migrant labor camps of California, the inner cities of New York and Los Angeles.