Robert F. Kennedy
American politician and lawyer
Robert F. Kennedy was an American lawyer and politician who served as attorney general and as a senator for New York. He wrote Thirteen Days, his account of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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American Born 1925 in Brookline, United States Died 1968
About Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy (1925 to 1968), known as RFK, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, into the Kennedy family. He studied at Harvard University and earned his law degree at the University of Virginia. He managed his brother John F. Kennedy's 1952 Senate campaign, and later became chief counsel of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee, where he challenged Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa. After the 1960 election he became US attorney general at the age of 35 and served as one of the president's closest advisors. He held that office from 1961 to 1964, then served as a senator for New York from 1965. Thirteen Days is his own account of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1968 he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, and he was shot shortly after winning the California primary. He died on June 6, 1968.