America in '68: The Killing of Robert Kennedy (TRIH ep 510, part 3)
1968 · Resource
The hosts trace Robert F. Kennedy's trajectory from a marginal Kennedy sibling to a major political figure in the mid-1960s—his work on organized crime and civil rights, mourning after JFK's assassination, his evolving rhetoric influenced by Greek tragedy and existentialism, and his pivot into a populist champion of the underdog. They chart RFK's fraught relationship with Lyndon B.
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Around 1968
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- The Beatles (1960)