The 20 November 1925 He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Robert Francis Kennedy. Son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald, brother of John and Ted. He graduated in law in 1948. Married to Ethel Skakel from 1950 and the father of eleven children. He began work as a lawyer and then devoted himself to politics. In 1952 He was appointed by Senator McCarthy consultant on the Committee investigations. He went out and then returned from Office, getting a major role. Meanwhile was a member of the Democratic Party as the brothers John and Ted. He was known as the toughest of the Kennedys by very determined and a certain inflexibility. Character traits that led him to clash with Jimmy Hoffa, the head of the Union of truck drivers. Who wasted no opportunity to detest it publicly, betraying some murky connection with crime. When his father appointed her brother John as the Kennedy to be placed in the White House, Robert had to be the gregarious captain. The Director of the electoral campaign of John Kennedy in 1960 was in the hands of Robert. In the shadows was able to impose his brother's candidacy with firmness and decision. After the victory, he was given the Ministry of Justice. The subsequent violent death of John threw into turmoil. He was the Crown Prince for his family, part of the party, and then the u.s.. Johnson was “the usurper”, but the President's Texan had allies all opponents of JFK that Robert had turned into enemies. And it was there that the change. Robert Kennedy traveled extensively in Europe and the United States. In the convention of 1964 where was unveiled by the candidacy of Lyndon Johnson when the time came for his speech received an ovation even amazing that was reserved for Johnson. However he took the road to run for the Senate. Continued its transformation from the ghost of brother Robert Kennedy. Went in America's poorest, understood before others do the mistake of Viet Nam war. He formulated a program in which no one should be against someone but in favor of a’ Different America where equality reigned. Became the’ last hope of blacks after he killed martin Luther King. In the meantime had become the head of the clan of the Kennedys. His father placed a lot of hope in him. He began the spring of 1968 and Johnson spotted the war in Viet Nam announced that it would no longer run for President. Robert came out of the closet and showed up with his torch for driving a wounded country, eager to revive the American dream. For weeks his rise seemed unstoppable, then the night of 4 and the 5 June 1968 an Arab named Siran Siran shot him after a rally at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles. Before losing consciousness asked his wife “the others are fine?”. The concluding phrase that sums up the personality of Robert Kennedy's by George Bernard Shaw;
Some men see things as they are and say: “Because?” I dream things as they never were and I say: “Why not?”.
Hector Parker
