Robert F. Kennedy

Ex-brother-in-law of Peter Lawford.

Uncle of Maria Shriver ; ex-uncle-in-law of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Had 11 children: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend , Joseph Kennedy (b. 1953), Robert Kennedy Jr. (b. 1955), Courtney Kennedy Hill (b. 1957), Michael Kennedy (b. 1959, d. 1998), Kerry Kennedy Cuomo , Christopher Kennedy (b. 1964), Max Kennedy (b. 1966), Douglas Kennedy (b. 1967), Rory Kennedy (b. 1968), and David Kennedy (d. 1984).

Served as Attorney General in his brother, John F. Kennedy s, Cabinet, and resigned in 1964 after his brothers death.

Graduated from Harvard University in 1948 with a government degree.

Graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1951.

Served as a United States Senator from New York state from 1964 - 6 June 1968.

Graduated from Milton Academy.

Pictured on a 15 US commemorative postage stamp issued in his honor, 12 January 1979.

Uncle of Robert Shriver , Caroline Kennedy , Christopher Lawford , John Kennedy Jr. , Maria Shriver , Patrick Kennedy.

Father of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend , Joseph Kennedy , Robert Kennedy Jr. , Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, Rory Kennedy.

Brother of U.S. Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith , John F. Kennedy , Ted Kennedy , Eunice Kennedy Shriver , Patricia Kennedy , Rosemary Kennedy , Kathleen Kennedy and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.

He harbored strong disdain for Lyndon Johnson , his older brothers vice president [who ultimately took over as president after Johns death] and the feeling was mutual.

In stark contrast to his older brother John F. Kennedy s poor health, Robert was a very strong and physically active man who enjoyed hiking and kayaking, among other outdoor activities.

Was a close friend of Robert Vaughn.

Family friend Andy Williams sang the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" at his funeral. Williams named his son Bobby Williams in honor of Kennedy.

When Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, it was his friend John Frankenheimer who had personally driven him there that day

Died the same day as Randolph Churchill , the only son of Winston Churchill.

Became close to actor Warren Beatty during his 1968 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Beattys relationship with Robert was closer than the one he had with John F. Kennedy while JFK was president. Beatty was particularly valuable in firing up volunteers for such mundane activities as door-to-door canvassing. Bobby was impressed by Beattys thorough understanding of the issues. After Bobbys assassination in Beattys hometown of Los Angeles, Beatty became a vocal gun control advocate.

He once got into a contest with Richard Burton , who greatly admired him, in which they tried to outdo the other by quoting William Shakespeare s sonnets. Both were word-perfect, and Burton was forced to "win" the contest by quoting one of the sonnets backwards, a feat Bobby could not match.

A wax replica of his head from the defunct Hollywood Wax Museum was auctioned off for a winning bid of $200 during a live auction on eBay on May 11, 2006.

Interred at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, about 100 yards to the left of his brothers grave.

Was portrayed by Steven Culp in Thirteen Days , Linus Roache in RFK , Dave Fraunces in Bobby , and Tim Ransom in "A Woman Named Jackie" .

Grandson of Congressman John F. Fitzgerald.

Son of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Kennedy.

In 1965, still mourning his brother Johns death, he journeyed to Canada to climb Mount Kennedy (on the Alasken-Canadian border) which had been named in his brothers honor. Breaking away from the team of experienced mountain climbers, Kennedy made it to the summit making him the first man ever to reach the top.

The hotel in which he was shot, the Los Angeles Ambassador, has since been torn down.

Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan is currently confined at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in southern San Diego County serving life sentence (his early death sentence was reversed due to California laws that invalidated such convictions prior to 1972).

The R.I.C.O. (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) act of 1970, which has been used to bring about widespread indictments against Organized Crime and the Federal Witness Protection Program is said to have been the brainchild of Robert F. Kennedy when he was the Attorney General.

When he was a senator he hired Jeff Greenfield as a speechwriter, who stayed until Kennedy was assassinated.

Wife Ethel was three months pregnant with their daughter Rory Kennedy when he was assassinated.

He was of Irish descent.

Resigned as U.S. Attorney General in 1964 to run for a U.S. Senate seat in New York. Several of his critics accused him of being a carpet bagger with very few ties, if any, to New York. Furthermore, he was ineligible to vote on November 3rd, 1964, the day of the election, because he did not meet the state property qualifications at the time. Despite this, he went on to narrowly win the seat and served in the Senate until his death in 1968.

Initially advocated a full-scale military invasion of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a fact he did not mention in his memoirs.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to,live.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who,is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be,shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their,minds and their bodies to the task.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that,they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what,they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law.

And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

If any man claims the Negro should be content. . . let him say he would,willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro,section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a,claim.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you,have to struggle to survive.

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to,tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives,have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up,and He is not white? What then is our response?,Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can,work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all,those acts will be written the history of this generation.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why. . . I,dream of things that never were, and ask why not?,Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its,enemies.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally,true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it,insists on.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love. . . . What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.

The only sin is pride.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. .