The James Logan Courier

By Gretel C. Kovach and Michael E. Young
The Dallas Morning News (KRT)

DALLAS _ When a high school senior delivered marijuana-laced muffins to a group of hungry teachers last month, sending 19 people to the hospital, teenage logic stumbled into the path of a society short on tolerance.

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also called "RFK", was one of two younger brothers of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and was appointed by his brother as Attorney General for his administration. As one of President Kennedy's most trusted advisors, RFK worked closely with the President during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the subsequent Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1964, after his brother's death, Kennedy was elected to the US Senate from the state of New York. He was assassinated shortly after delivering a speech celebrating his victory in the 1968 presidential primary of California at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

Hear Robert F. Kennedy annouce the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr, on April 4, 1968, from www.americanrhetoric.com


Kennedy speaking to a Civil Rights crowd in front of the Justice Department building, June 1963.