Robert Kennedy, Jr.: (Regarding his father's response during the Cuban Missile Crisis) I remember there being a discussion at home with my father about whether or not we should be moved. There was a bunker under Camp David, where there was room for us. But there were two considerations that I remember my father articulating at that time. One was that we shouldn't be moved, because it would cause other people to panic if we were moved out of Washington; and the other one was that, if there a nuclear war, none of us would want to be around afterwards, anyway.
Bob Kennedy (From a letter to his brother Jack from Officer Training School at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine dated January 1, 1945) Here I am keeping up the good and though my part in this war is not quite as spectacular as yours, we all have our little bit.
Frank Mankiewicz, Kennedy Press Aide: Senator Robert Francis Kennedy died at 1:44 a.m. today, June 6, 1968. With Senator Kennedy at the time of his death were his wife, Ethel, his sisters, Mrs. Steven Smith and Mrs. Patricia Lawford; brother-in-law, Mr. Steven Smith, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. John F. Kennedy. He was 42 years old. Thank you.
Robert F. Kennedy: (April 4, 1968 on the campaign trail in Indianapolis, Indiana) Martin Luther King has been shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee. [audience shrieks] For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel, in my own heart, the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man. It is not the end of violence, it is not the end of lawlessness and it's not the end of disorder; but the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.
Robert F. Kennedy: When I think of President Kennedy, I think of what Shakespeare said in Romeo and Juliet. When he shall die, take him and cut him out into the stars and he shall make the face of Heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.
Robert F. Kennedy: I won't say I stayed awake nights, worrying about civil rights, before I became Attorney General.
Robert F, Kennedy: (Regarding the initial days of the John F. Kennedy Administration) Those were the days when we thought we were succeeding because of all the stories on how hard everyone was working. Everything seemed possible.
Robert F. Kennedy: Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Robert F. Kennedy: (From his speech announcing his candidacy for the presidency of the United States) I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.
Robert F. Kennedy: My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.
Robert F. Kennedy: We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
Robert F. Kennedy: Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.
Bob Kennedy is the father (with wife Ethel) of environmental lawyer/activist and author, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Mr. Kennedy suffered from vertigo.
In the nine months from the death of President Kennedy to the Democratic National Presidential convention, the Kennedy legacy grew and Bobby was considered the "obvious beneficiary." So that delegates would not be convinced to nominate Bobby for the vice-presidency, President Lyndon Johnson moved the tribute film for the late President John F. Kennedy and the subsequent follow-up talk by Bobby to the last night of the convention. The standing ovation Bobby received before speaking to the delegates lasted 22 minutes.
Scenes for the Emilio Estivez film "Bobby" about Robert F. Kennedy were filmed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles (where Senator Kennedy was assassinated) before the building was torn down for a new public high school to be built on that site.
RFK served as junior Senator from New York from January 3, 1965 until his death on June 6, 1968.
Robert F. Kennedy served as US Attorney General from 1961-1964. On November 20, 2001, on what would have been his 76th birthday, President George W. Bush renamed the Justice Department Building after Attorney General Kennedy.
Bobby and Ethel were devout Roman Catholics and kept numerous reminders of Bobby's patron saint, St. Francis of Assisi, in and about their home for their children to see.
Olympic Gold Medalist Rafer Johnson was one of the personal bodyguards Mr. Kennedy used when he ran for President. Mr. Johnson reported hearing the sound of gunfire over his head as he participated in the Kennedy entourage exiting through the Ambassador hotel kitchen. He then grabbed the assailant's hand and weapon, after the fatal shots were fired, pushing Sirhan B. Sirhan to the ground.
Football player Rosey (Roosevelt) Grier served as one of Senator Robert Kennedy's personal bodyguards when the Senator ran for President of the United States in 1968. On the night of Mr. Kennedy's assassination Grier 's job was to guard Ethel Kennedy who was pregnant with child. After shots were fired, Grier helped keep control of the shooter's handgun after another bodyguard gained control of the weapon.
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