Robert Kennedy: The Last Hero

Why Robert Kennedy's message of compassion still resonates in 1988

It has been 20 years since he died, and still it is hard to take the measure of the man. Robert Kennedy was mostly a brother in his lifetime: a campaign manager, an Attorney General and then the younger brother to whom the torch was passed. Again, as a brother, he had to battle past his own dark night of the soul to take up a doomed burden, knowing that every time he rose to speak in front of a crowd it was to stare his own death in the eye. But the Kennedy magic, both a blessing and a curse,...

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