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Today’s post comes from Alyssa Manfredi at the National Archives History Office.
Robert “Bobby” Kennedy was a politician known as the father of modern American liberalism.
As President John F. Kennedy’s younger brother, he used his position as a high-profile member of the Kennedy family to advocate for the civil rights movements of the 1960s.
Robert Francis Kennedy was born on November 20, 1925, into an Irish-American family.
He was the eighth child and third son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy. Dismissed by his father for being the “runt” of the family, he gravitated toward his pious mother and became a devout Catholic.
In 1950, Bobby married his sister Jean’s college roommate, Ethel Skakel.The couple went on to have 11 children together.
When asked what the most important decision in his life was, Kennedy’s response was “marrying Ethel.”
Kennedy went to Harvard University to study political science and then attended the University of Virginia School of Law.
He was admitted to
