Remembering Robert F. Kennedy: From Attorney General to Tragic Assassination

On what would have been his ninety-seventh birthday, the life of Robert F. Kennedy invites reflection on a political vision cut short before it could fully unfold. He moved through the highest corridors of American power — as Attorney General, as Senator, as presidential candidate — carrying a conviction that dignity came through work, not charity. His assassination at forty-two in a Los Angeles hotel, hours after a California primary victory, remains one of the defining ruptures of the American twentieth century, a moment when possibility and violence collided in ways the nation has never ful