Robert Kennedy in His Own Words (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert F. Kennedy
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Interviews
- Time of Work: 1960-1965
- Setting: Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Journalism
- Subjects: Civil rights, 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Politics, Political science, Organized crime, Democratic Party
- Locales: Washington, D.C.
Robert Kennedy in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years confirms the power of oral history to preserve for posterity an era and its manifold voices. In these interviews conducted in the mid-1960's for the John F. Kennedy Library's oral history project, Robert Kennedy comes alive through his own words, and he brings with him a substantive, honest, and loving account of his brother, assassinated on November 22, 1963. Less than five years later, on the night that he had won the California primary in the race for the 1968 Democratic presidential...
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