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Ashley Montgomery

Robert Kennedy was killed 55 years ago. How should he be remembered?

Sen. Robert Kennedy speaks at an election rally in 1968. (Harry Benson/Getty Images)

Just after midnight on June 5, 1968, in a ballroom in the ornate Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, a packed crowd watched charismatic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy give a victory speech after winning the California primary.

Almost five years after his older brother John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Robert Kennedy was making his own run for the White House. America was divided over the Civil Rights Movement and the war in Vietnam.

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