Summary of Tim Tate & Brad Johnson's The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

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#1 On March 16, 1968, Robert Francis Kennedy, the junior Senator for New York, announced his candidacy for the presidency in the same room as John F. Kennedy did eight years earlier. He was criticized for being a coward for not running against Johnson and McCarthy.

#2 In February 1968, the Tet Offensive, a series of attacks by North Vietnamese forces against American military and civilian command centers, shocked the American public. The war was becoming increasingly unpopular with the American electorate.

#3 Bobby was convinced that four more years of LBJ was an insupportably high price to pay for his own doubts. He told his advisors that Johnson was not going to do anything about the war or the cities. He was duty-bound to run, as the keeper of his brother’s legacy.

#4 Bobby was a key figure in televised hearings examining McCarthy and Cohn’s conduct. The sessions boosted his public reputation while destroying those of the Senator and his counsel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822547902

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

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Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

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Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On March 16, 1968, Robert Francis Kennedy, the junior Senator for New York, announced his candidacy for the presidency in the same room as John F. Kennedy did eight years earlier. He was criticized for being a coward for not running against Johnson and McCarthy.

#2

In February 1968, the Tet Offensive, a series of attacks by North Vietnamese forces against American military and civilian command centers, shocked the American public. The war was becoming increasingly unpopular with the American electorate.

#3

Bobby was convinced that four more years of LBJ was an insupportably high price to pay for his own doubts. He told his advisors that Johnson was not going to do anything about the war or the cities. He was duty-bound to run, as the keeper of his brother’s legacy.

#4

Bobby was a key figure in televised hearings examining McCarthy and Cohn’s conduct. The sessions boosted his public reputation while destroying those of the Senator and his counsel.

#5

The hearings did not lead to any indictments or criminal proceedings against corrupt union officials or Mafia bosses. Instead, they had three more long-lasting effects. They showed that the Mafia had control over much of America’s criminal underworld, and that the FBI had not investigated organized crime.

#6

Bobby’s public profile rose as he pursued the Mafia, and he began to realize that he had a cause worth fighting for. He wrote a book about the threat of the Mafia, and he began to realize that he had a lot of enemies.

#7

Under the outgoing Eisenhower administration, the Justice Department was cautious and slow-moving when the country was facing severe internal problems, such as the threat of organized crime. But Bobby launched a war on crime two weeks after his appointment as Attorney General, and over the next two years a total of 404 mafia gangsters were convicted for narcotics trafficking, corruption, and illegal gambling.

#8

The war on organized crime was led by three gangsters in particular: Chicago’s Sam Giancana, Florida mob boss Santo Trafficante Jr. , and the head of organized crime in Louisiana,