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Showing posts with label RFK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RFK. Show all posts
Sunday, November 03, 2013
Amazing images of Robert F. Kennedy on the campaign trail
Images quarried and selected By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Ethel Kennedy's prank on J. Edgar Hoover
By Jack Brummet, Presidents and almost-Presidents editor
A new movie premiered tonight on HBO—"Ethel," another look inside the Kennedy dynasty by her youngest daughter Rory Kennedy (an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker). It includes this choice tidbit:
When Robert F. Kennedy was U.S. attorney general, his wife, Ethel, would take their children to the FBI building to watch sharpshooters at target practice. It was fun for the kids, though they risked running into FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who intensely disliked Bobby Kennedy and didn't care for children. So when Ethel came across a suggestion box, she wrote, "Get a new director"' on a piece of paper, and dropped it in the slot.
A new movie premiered tonight on HBO—"Ethel," another look inside the Kennedy dynasty by her youngest daughter Rory Kennedy (an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker). It includes this choice tidbit:
When Robert F. Kennedy was U.S. attorney general, his wife, Ethel, would take their children to the FBI building to watch sharpshooters at target practice. It was fun for the kids, though they risked running into FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who intensely disliked Bobby Kennedy and didn't care for children. So when Ethel came across a suggestion box, she wrote, "Get a new director"' on a piece of paper, and dropped it in the slot.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Forty years ago today, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated
Forty years ago today, just after midnight, 42-year old Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a presidential candidate (who was on fire, with the most exciting, hope-filled campaign of my lifetime so far), was shot three times in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Five other people were wounded. The senator had just finished his speech after his win in the California presidential primary.
The shooter, a Palestinian, Sirhan B. Sirhan, is still in prison in California today, and will again be eligible for parole in 2011.
Senator Kennedy fought for his life over the next day, but died on the morning of June 6th. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, not far from his assassinated older brother, JFK.
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Hillary Clinton: The Tanya Harding of Politics
click Hill to enlarge
It's like Tanya Harding's kneecapping has come to politics. Only the senator from New York has more lethal fantasies than that nutty skater. - Michael Goodwin, NY Daily News
See earlier All This Is That articles on Clinton's RFK statement here (Clinton crosses the final line) and here (Hey...RFK got shot in June didn't he?
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