Shattered too soon. Adding to national cemetery. Two brothers gunned down just five years apart reunited. President john f. Kennedys murder In Dallas On November Twenty second One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Three that ended the age of american innocence and plunged the country into violence and social turmoil. At his brothers funeral Bobby Kennedy was consumed by remorse and guilt. And as he reflected on the political life he had shared with john he asked himself who had killed his brother and why. John and Bobby Kennedy had made numerous sentiments including matthew abbass f. B. I. Director j. Edgar hoover fidel castro Labor Union Leaders like jimmy hoffa and southern racists
oswald had acted alone. To done so would have meant confronting terrible truths about his role in his brothers administration and the rage he felt at John Kennedys murder. Just. Just. At the time Robert Kennedy was running for the u. S. Senate in new york he took time off from the campaign to reflect on the year
but it was the vietnam war that was to become the turning point in his political destiny. in one nine hundred sixty two but we had supported his brother s intervention in vietnam but only as a testing ground for developing counter insurgency strategies. but by nine hundred sixty five under the johnson administration the country was at war. bobby was deeply troubled by the current conflict but he could not yet oppose it in public because it was part of his brother s political legacy. meanwhile more than two hundred thousand men were drafted into the us armed forces in one thousand nine hundred eighty five alone many of them from the working classes. johnson also ordered massive air strikes in north vietnam kennedy disagreed with his strategy because he believed that it would not bring hanoi to the negotiating table. by all of this that could. i m opposed to resuming the bombing at the moment until i have
but it was the vietnam war that was to become the turning point in his political destiny. in one nine hundred sixty two but we had supported his brother s intervention in vietnam but only as a testing ground for developing counter insurgency strategies. but by nine hundred sixty five under the johnson administration the country was at war. bobby was deeply troubled by the current conflict and he could not yet oppose it in public because it was part of his brother s political legacy. meanwhile more than two hundred thousand men were drafted into the us armed forces in one nine hundred sixty five alone many of them from the working classes. johnson also ordered massive air strikes in north vietnam kennedy disagreed with his strategy because he believed that it would not bring hanoi to the negotiating table. by all that concerned i m opposed to resuming the bombing at the moment until i get