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Name: Robert Francis Kennedy Hometown: Brookline, Massachusetts Date of Birth: November 20, 1925 Job Name/Title/Employer: US Attorney General 1961-1964 and US Senator from New York 1965-1968 Education: Harvard University and University of Virginia Law School

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John F. Kennedy

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About Me
Hi, I am Bobby Kennedy. The seventh of the nine Kennedy children from Rose and Joseph Kennedy. I come from a wealthy and privileged family. I attended only the finest schools like Milton Academy, Harvard University, and the University of Virginia Law School. My two older brother Jack and John Kennedy were always the pride of my father's eye. The Kennedy family is and will be forever linked to public service and it has shaped my life and the life of my brothers.

Early in my career, I worked with many individuals on a variety of different issues. After my brother's victory in the US Senate election for Massachusetts, I worked with John and his senate staff. I also, worked with the infamous Senator Joseph McCarthy on the influence of Communists inside the federal government. While on the Senate Labor Rackets Committee, I helped investigate the corruption within labor unions. In 1960, my older brother John asked me to be his campaign manager and help him win the presidential election of 1960. Early in my career, I worked with many people from important senators to running a nationwide presidential campaign.

After John was elected president, I was appointed to the position of United States Attorney General. As the US Attorney General, I am the head lawyer for the federal government. During my tenure, I focused on fighting organized crime, the mafia, corruption in unions and Jimmy Hoffa. The most important issue facing our nation during that time, I believe was civil rights. I sought to protect the Freedom Riders in their demonstrations against bus segregation in the south. I sent US Marshals to Mississippi to enforce a federal court order to desegregate the University of Mississippi. As Attorney General, I was constantly advising President Kennedy and other members of the cabinet to support and pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Unfortunately, after the president's assassination I decided to leave the position of Attorney General to pursue other endeavors.

In the 1964, I won the New York senate seat to continue the fight for social justice and equality. One of my first tasks in the US Senate was to fight poverty and I worked towards combating poverty and redevelopment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. During my tenure in the Senate, I was an outspoken critic of President Johnson's escalation of the conflict in Vietnam, I believe it is unnecessary to commit ground troops in that conflict when we have more pressing conflicts at home. One of the greatest moments in my Senate career involved the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, I was very pleased and happy to vote for the passage of that important piece of legislation. While in the US Senate, the issues of social justice and equality were always my focal point and guided me in my votes as a senator.

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 * June 17, 1950: Wedding Day, today I married the girl of my dreams Ethel Skakel at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenwich, Connecticut. Ethel and I will have 11 children: Kathleen, Joseph, Robert Jr., David, Courtney, Michael, Kerry, Christopher, Max, Doug, and Rory.


 * November 8, 1960: The 1960 Presidential Election was held and my brother John won over Richard Nixon. I served as he campaign manager during the 1960 campaign for president and later he would appoint me to United States Attorney General. I'm very proud of my brother, he will do a lot of good for out nation as president.


 * September 1962: I, the United States Attorney General, had to send US Marshals to Mississippi to enforce a federal court order to desegregate the University of Mississippi. The US Marshals will be there to assist James Meredith in admitting to the university as the first African American student at Old Miss.


 * June 1966: As the United States Senator from New York, I traveled to apartheid South Africa. While in South Africa, I gave a speech at a local university in which I said, "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope..."

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