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Fast Facts about Robert F. Kennedy
The following information about Robert F. Kennedy is arranged alphabetically by topic. For more information please contact Kennedy.Library@nara.gov. Have a research question? Ask an Archivist.
Africa: Began tour of Africa (South Africa included) on June 1, 1966.
Attorney General: January 20, 1961-August 25, 1964. Resigned to run for the U.S. Senate from New York.
Birth: November 20, 1925 in Brookline, MA.
Boston Post Articles: Covered Arab-Israeli war (June) and Berlin airlift for the Boston Post in 1948, Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in 1951.
Campaigns of John F. Kennedy:
- Managed three East Cambridge wards during John F. Kennedy's 1st Congressional campaign, 1946.
- Left Justice Department to manage John F. Kennedy's Senate campaign.
- Managed John F. Kennedy's campaign to be nominated as Vice-President during the 1956 Democratic convention in Chicago.
Capital Punishment: In letters to constituents throughout 1968 he expressed his strong willingness to support a bill then under consideration for th
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Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy was born on November 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the seventh child in the closely knit and competitive family of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy. "I was the seventh of nine children," he later recalled, "and when you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive."
He attended Milton Academy and, after wartime service in the Navy, received his degree in government from Harvard University in 1948. He earned his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School three years later. Perhaps more important for his education was the Kennedy family dinner table, where his parents involved their children in discussions of history and current affairs. "I can hardly remember a mealtime," Robert Kennedy said, "when the conversation was not dominated by what Franklin D. Roosevelt was doing or what was happening in the world."
In 1950, Robert Kennedy married Ethel Skakel of Greenwich, Connecticut, daughter of Ann Brannack Skakel and George Skakel, founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation. Robert and Ethel Kennedy later ha
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
American politician and activist (born 1954)
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, anti-vaccine activist, and conspiracy theorist[discuss] who has served since 2025 as the 26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. A member of the Kennedy family, he is the son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law. He began his career as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan. In the mid-1980s, he joined two nonprofits focused on environmental protection: Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). He became an adjunct professor of environmental law at Pace University School of Law in 1986. In 1987, Kennedy founded Pace's Environmental Litigation Clinic. He founded the nonprofit environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance in 1999. He init
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