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Sen. Robert Kennedy sprawled semiconscious in his own blood on floor after being shot in the brain & neck while busboy Juan Romero tries to comfort him, in kitchen at the Ambassador Hotel.
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US
Date taken: June 5, 1968
Photograph: Bill Eppridge (1938-2013)
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Juan Romero kneeling next to Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968.
Photograph: Bill Eppridge The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images
50 Years Later, the Story Behind the Photos of Robert Kennedy’s Assassination NYT June 5, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/
Boris Yaro’s iconic image of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination.
It is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Photograph: Boris Yaro Los Angeles Times, via Associated Press
Boris Yaro, Whose Photo of an Assassination Endures, Dies at 81 In June 1968, Mr. Yaro took one of the seminal images of the killing of Robert F. Kennedy. NYT March 20, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/
Kennedy falls after being shot at the Ambassador hotel
June 5, 1968.
The last days of Bobby Kennedy: a photographer's view by Harry Benson
The last days of Bobby Kennedy: a photographer's view by Harry Benson The Guardian Fri 8 Jun 2018 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/jun/08/
After the shooting Ethel Kennedy pleads with bystanders to stand back
June 5, 1968.
The last days of Bobby Kennedy: a photographer's view by Harry Benson
The last days of Bobby Kennedy: a photographer's view by Harry Benson G Fri 8 Jun 2018 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/jun/08/
Robert Kennedy on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel’s kitchen in Los Angeles with his wife, Ethel Kennedy, leaning over him. June 5, 1968.
Photograph: Bill Eppridge The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images
50 Years Later, the Story Behind the Photos of Robert Kennedy’s Assassination NYT June 5, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/
Sirhan Sirhan, 23, is taken from the Hotel Ambassador early 5 June 1968 after he shot Senator Robert F Kennedy.
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Federal judge denies Kennedy killer's petition for freedom Sirhan Sirhan is serving life for 1968 assassination of presidential candidate Judge said Sirhan ‘failed to meet the showing required for actual innocence’ G Tue 6 Jan 2015 21.10 GMT First published on Tue 6 Jan 2015 18.27 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/06/
Mr. Wasser photographed a joyful Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968 after winning presidential primaries in California and South Dakota, moments before his assassination.
Photograph: Julian Wasser
Julian Wasser, the ‘Photographer Laureate’ of L.A., Dies at 89 In the 1960s and ’70s, he created indelible images of the city’s combustible mix of art, rock ’n’ roll, new Hollywood and social ferment. NYT Feb. 14, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/
Senator Robert Kennedy speaks his final words to supporters at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles moments before he was shot on 5 June 1968.
Photograph: Dick Strobel AP
Robert Kennedy's daughter on his death, Donald Trump and America's future G Tue 5 Jun 2018 06.00 BST Last modified on Tue 5 Jun 2018 12.30 BST
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Robert F. Kennedy just before he was shot. 1968.
Photograph: Dick Strobel Associated Press NYT June 6, 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/robert-kennedy http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives
Robert F Kennedy prepares to speak at DeFremery Park, Oakland, 1 June 1968.
Photograph: Stephen Shames
Stephen Shames' best photograph: Robert Kennedy in his final days G Thu 18 Oct 2018 08.21 BST Last modified on Thu 18 Oct 2018 16.57 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/18/
Bobby Kennedy tried to bring people together, at a time when America was tearing itself apart over the Vietnam war, and black and white Americans were fighting in the streets at home.
Photograph: Andrew Sacks Getty Images
The world Bobby Kennedy hoped for isn't here yet – we need to try harder
Robert Kennedy believed change starts with the actions of a single person, and if enough people join, they can bend history G Tue 5 Jun 2018 05.46 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/05/
Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.
Photograph: Lawrence Schiller Archive
Norman Rockwell’s Vision of F.D.R.’s Four Freedoms NYT March 8, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/
Robert Kennedy campaigning in Philadelphia in 1968.
Photograph: Constantine Manos Magnum Photos
The Bobby Kennedy Pathway NYT MARCH 16, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/
Robert F Kennedy campaign, New York, 1968 ‘The ultimate man in politics: he had the intelligence, the sense of caring and he knew how to play politics. He would have been one of our great presidents, and perhaps could have changed the world.’
Steve Schapiro: Heroic Times – in pictures From the civil rights marches to Robert F Kennedy’s presidential campaign, Andy Warhol’s Factory to the filming of Taxi Driver, photojournalist Steve Schapiro has captured many key moments of US history and culture. As a new exhibition of his 60s and 70s work opens in his hometown of New York, he reveals what it was like to witness history being made G Tue 19 Dec 2017 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/dec/19/
Robert F. Kennedy’s motorcade during his presidential campaign in 1968.
The image is included in “Rebel Spirits: Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.” at the New-York Historical Society;
Photograph: Lawrence Schiller Getty Images
King and Kennedy Weren’t Friends, but They Were Bound by History NYT April 4, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/
In [ April ] 1968, Robert F. Kennedy tells a crowd in Indianapolis, “Martin Luther King was shot and killed tonight.”
In [ April ] 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy told a crowd in Indianapolis, “Martin Luther King was shot and killed tonight.”
Photograph: John R. Fulton, Jr. Associated Press
When Robert F. Kennedy Told an Indianapolis Crowd of King’s Assassination NYT April 4, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/
Robert F. Kennedy's Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Speech April 1968
Robert F. Kennedy's Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Speech Video April 1968
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[Robert Kennedy at the Oxford Union, 28 January 1967]
‘Kennedy’s death saw the birth of directly attaching blame to guns, which hadn’t happened as much after King’s death,’ said photographer Dennis Brack.
Photograph: David Newell-Smith for the Observer
How Robert Kennedy's assassination emboldened the NRA for 50 years G Tue 5 Jun 2018 12.00 BST Last modified on Tue 5 Jun 2018 18.10 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/05/
The exhibition, featuring stark black-and-white photographs of Kennedy and King, reveals the various ways in which the lives of these two influential figures were juxtaposed.
Photograph: Lawrence Schiller Getty Images
King and Kennedy Weren’t Friends, but They Were Bound by History NYT April 4, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/
Both the building of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, shown above in 1975, and its core mission, are being rethought.
Photograph: Tyrone Dukes The New York Times
One Solution to the Housing Crisis: Just Make People Rich A Brooklyn institution dating to the Civil Rights era has an ambitious, new plan to close the racial wealth gap. NYT February 11, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/
1960s-1970s
NYC > Brooklyn
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
In 1966, Robert Kennedy, then the junior senator from New York, turned his attention to the country’s racial frictions and the rupture of urban life, marked by rioting and despair.
One freezing day in February, he went to Brooklyn to visit Bedford-Stuyvesant, where schools were falling apart, heroin was everywhere and fathers were not.
Community leaders met him with hostility; they were tired of the political gaze, an interest in Bed-Stuy that seemed anthropological rather than practical or solution-oriented.
Kennedy was annoyed — telling aides later that he could have just as easily spent his time “smoking a cigar in Palm Beach.”
Still, he was deeply affected.
The result was the creation of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, the first community-development organization in the country, one that pioneered public-private municipal partnerships, becoming a national model for hundreds of similar programs.
During its first 10 years, Restoration (as it is universally known) spent $63 million in government, philanthropic and corporate funds to place thousands of local residents in jobs or training programs, build and rehabilitate housing, offer mortgages.
It brought art and cultural programming to the area; it opened the Billie Holiday Theater and the first supermarket in a neighborhood with hundreds of thousands of people; and in 1968, it persuaded IBM to develop a computer cable plant that employed thousands of nearby residents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/
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TITLE: Negro demonstration in Washington, D.C. Justice Dept. Bobby Kennedy speaking to crowd REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-04295 (digital file from original) SUMMARY: Photograph showing Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaking to a crowd of African Americans and whites through a megaphone outside the Justice Department; sign for Congress of Racial Equality is prominently displayed. MEDIUM: 1 negative : film.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1963 Jun. 14.
CREATOR: Leffler, Warren K., photographer.
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original) ppmsca 04295 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.04295 TIFF > JPEG by Anglonautes
U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy delivers a speech during a civil rights demonstration on June 30, 1963, in Washington, D.C.
Photograph: AFP via Getty Images
Robert Kennedy was killed 55 years ago. How should he be remembered? NPR June 5, 2023 5:00 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/05/
Robert F. Kennedy Campaign
Photograph: Bill Eppridge (1938-2013)
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Robert F. Kennedy in a “desolate and haunted” photograph by McDarrah that should be famous, Dwight Garner writes.
Photograph: The Estate of Fred W. McDarrah and Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
He Was the Visual Voice of the Village Voice NYT Sept. 6, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy 1925 - June 6, 1968
As U.S. attorney general from 1961 to 1964, Robert F. Kennedy served as one of the most trusted advisors to his brother, President John F. Kennedy, on matters of civil rights.
Although Martin Luther King boldly criticized the attorney general and the Department of Justice for its failure to investigate civil rights violations, he wrote Kennedy in 1964 praising him for his efforts to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964:
“Your able, courageous and effective work in guiding the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through both Houses of Congress has earned for you an even warmer spot in the hearts of freedom loving people the world over.
I add to theirs my sincere and heartfelt thanks” (King, 24 June 1964).
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Ethel Skakel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy and wife with Adm. Harry D. Felt (R) viewing hulks of US Fleet Ships that were sunk.
Location: Pearl Harbor, HI, US
Date taken: February 1962
Photograph: John Dominis
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