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Stephen P. White
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David G Bonagura, Jr.
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Fr. Jeffrey Kirby
RFK’s assassination at 50
Paul Kengor, NC Register
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
It was 50 years ago, June 6, 1968, that Robert F. Kennedy was brutally removed from the national stage by the hand of an assassin. The country was shocked — yet again. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated mere weeks earlier, and President John F. Kennedy had been killed five years earlier. Modern audiences, Catholics among them, don’t know RFK as audiences knew him then. Actually, even in June 1968, many RFK supporters didn’t fully know the man, especially his Catholic side. Who was he?