Every year, in early June, I think back to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s last words in public after winning the June 4 California primary in 1968: “And now it’s onto Chicago and let’s win there.”
We know the horrific ending to Kennedy’s candidacy, when bullets ended the 42-year-old senator’s life, presidential campaign and the hope he represented for many that awful night in Los Angeles. Like violence everywhere, that assassination had a ripple effect across the Kennedy family and the nation for decades.
