Robert F. Kennedy Rediscovered

Felled by an assassin's bullet forty years ago this month, Robert
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Beacon of Hope
Felled by an assassin's bullet forty years ago this month, Robert "Bobby" Kennedy personified the power of the possibility for positive change in the 1960s, a decade when America was wracked by social unrest, racial inequality and war.

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