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Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy. 1925 - June 6, 1968. Career Highlights. JFK’s li’l brother & close advisor US Attorney General 61-64 US Senator (NY) 64-68 Presidential Candidate, 1968, in primary against (incumbent) President Johnson Assassinated June 5, day after winning landmark, crucial CA primary.

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Robert Kennedy

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  1. Robert Kennedy 1925 - June 6, 1968

  2. Career Highlights • JFK’s li’l brother & close advisor • US Attorney General 61-64 • US Senator (NY) 64-68 • Presidential Candidate, 1968, in primary against (incumbent) President Johnson • Assassinated June 5, day after winning landmark, crucial CA primary

  3. RFK’s Commitments as AG • To Civil Rights: • aggressive desegregation of White House during AG tenure • used force to protect civil rights workers, demonstrations, and newly desegregated spaces • One of few early anti-Apartheid activists, toured S. Africa in 1966

  4. RFK’s Presidential Candidacy • Dem party torn in 68 by Vietnam War and Civil Rights • RFK a late primary candidate, anti-war, pro-Civil Rights, economic and racial justice, non-aggressive foreign policy, decentralization of federal power, expansive social policies • Assassinated at height of primary campaign

  5. Riots in 1960s • Antiwar movements, Civil Rights movements, assassinations (1963, 1968), racial injustice (Watts 1965). • In US, over 100 cities rioting, unrest, after MLK Jr. was assassinated. • In France, May 1968: massive student strike led to worker strike (up to 2/3 French workers), eventually leading to collapse of DuGaul (conservative) govt.

  6. Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) • One of the first postmodern writers • Critically hailed, award winning writing • Also reporter, director of an art museum, creative writing professor • His writing best represents much of the postmodern aesthetic

  7. Margins (1964) ‘Do you think I’m a pretty color?’ Edward asked. ‘Are you envious?’ ‘No,’ Carl said. ‘Not envious…. You’re kind of boring, Edward. To tell the truth.’ Edward thought about this for a moment. Then he said: ‘But I’m white.’ ‘It’s the color of choice,’ Carl said. ‘I’m tired of talking about color, though. Let’s talk about values or something.’ (11)

  8. Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning (1968) “K in the water. His flat black hat, his black cape, his sword are on the shore. He retains his mask. His hands beat the surface of the water which tears and rips about him. The white foam, the green depths. I throw a line, the coils leaping out over the surface of the water.… His right hand (sword arm) grasps the line that I have thrown him.” (85)

  9. The Indian Uprising (1968) We interrogated the captured Comanche. Two of us forced his head back while another poured water into his nostrils. His body jerked, he choked and wept… [w]e issued entrenching tools to those who seemed trustworthy and turned the heavy-weapons companies so that we could not be surprised from that direction. And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love” (108)

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