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I don't know much about him. What did he do to be famous other than being a Kennedy?
I didn't see the movie. From what I've read, Bobby briefly worked for Joe McCarthy, then became part of the Kennedy administration (if I remember right, I think he was Attorney General). At first he supported civil rights, but J. Edgar Hoover mentioned that he knew about Jack's affairs and pressured Bobby into doing less about civil rights to protect his brother. Bobby in private called Hoover a "psycho" and a "supremist."
It still seems strange that Jack, Bobby, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X all got shot.
skylab
What did he do to support civil rights? Or did he supports civil rights the way you and I do? I honestly don't know.
Voted : His death changed the political direction of America...
..for the worse.
He was a hero to black Americans too, as the only high profile white voice to speak up for them, just as his brother was.
He announced the death of Martin Luther King if I remember correctly to a crowd of mostly African Americans he happened to be addressing at a rally during his election campaign.
infowars.com/articles/ps/kennedy_robert_the_plot_to_kill_robert_kennedy.htm
Closet, I believe he helped jailed civil rights workers with legal problems when he could.
He was a good guy.
Voted : His death changed the political direction of America...
If you have no idea what his death did to America, t's because you weren't alive then. Losing Bobby hurt worse than JFK's death.
 Fascinating observation TS, why exactly do you think that?
JFK was the ideal that America aspired to be, in the eyes of Americans. Bobby *personified* that ideal. As Attorney-General, he made the laws that tried to make all men equal. When the Voting Rights Act was being blatantly overrriden in the South, he *forced* J Edgar "DO I look good in chenille" Hoover to put the DOJ to work to stop the abuses.
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