A poignant family memory was evoked last week at Washington's Kennedy Center. Ethel Kennedy, her 20-year-old son Bobby Jr., Senator Ted Kennedy, his wife Joan and sisters Eunice Shriver, Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, joined some 325 journalists and friends at the sixth annual presentation of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Awards, which honored reporting on minority-group problems. Then Ethel thanked CBS's Roger Mudd for his stint as awards chairman. "I would like to add one personal note," she began, only to come near tears as she recalled the tragedy in a kitchen passageway of Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on...
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