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Kennedy, Robert Francis
US Democratic politician and lawyer. He was presidential campaign manager for his brother John F Kennedy in 1960, and as attorney general 1961–64 pursued a racket-busting policy and worked to enforce federal law in support of civil rights. He was assassinated during his campaign for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination.
He was also a key aide to his brother. When John F Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, preferred Hubert H Humphrey for the 1964 vice-presidential nomination, Kennedy resigned as attorney general and was elected senator for New York. When running for president, he advocated social justice at home and an end to the Vietnam War. During a campaign stop in California, he was shot by Sirhan Bissara Sirhan (1944– ).
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