Chris matthews kennedy biography best

The New Year will bring the 50th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 assassination, a year marred by social and political turmoil, rank hatreds and division, and violence unmatched in U.S. history since the days of the Civil War.

It was the year in which the North Vietnamese broke America’s will in Southeast Asia; Lyndon Johnson’s presidency crumbled; Martin Luther King was murdered; George Wallace ran a disturbingly effective racist campaign; and the Democratic Party ripped itself apart at its riot-torn national convention in Chicago.

Amid all this, on June 4th, the third Kennedy brother to be killed in public service was gunned down in the kitchen of a Los Angeles hotel, having just won the California primary with his family’s archetypical mix of cold reckoning, liberal sentiment, and hot popular appeal.

Could Kennedy have gone on to win the nomination and defeat Richard Nixon in the fall election?

Would he have ended