struggles with his own guilt. >> there's no doubt in my mind that bobby kennedyt at some level that he was responsible. >> bobby's afraid that his various attempts to prosecute bad guys has in some horrible way blown back on his own family. >> you have castro. you have the ku klux klan. you have potentially the soviet union. you have the mafia. the list of suspects was immense. >> bobby kennedy's calling around to try to find out what happened. he has spies everywhere, and he has a spy in chicago who has contacts with the mafia boss sam giancana to find out if giancana killed jfk. the answer is no. >> bobby even wonders if america's own intelligence agency is to blame. >> he calls the head of the cia, john mccomb, to see m the cia did it, and mccomb swears to him as a fellow catholic the cia is innocent. >> asbobby searchesfor the truth behind jack's assassination, jackie plans for her husband's state funeral. >> the body of the late president john kennedy now lies in repose in the east room of the white house. the cameras are being allowed in at mrs. kennedy's

bobby kennedy despised lyndon johnson. e like dogs with the hair standing up on the back of their neck. >> joe kennedy didn't feel that way. he was looking in strategic terms at the map and realized that his son needed texas. >> so the two brothers tapped lyndon johnson to be jack's vice presidential running mate. and they did that for one reason. they were going to do anything it took to get jack elected president. >> first kennedy must beat one of the most experienced politicians in america, republican nominee and sitting vice president richard nixon. ballpark. t e [park announcer] all military members stand and be recognized. sometimes fans cheer for those who wear a different uniform. no matter where or when you served, t-mobile stands ready to serve you. that's why we're providing half off family lines to all military. that goes beyond assumingl pet ingredients are safe... to knowing they are. going beyond expectations... because our pets deserve it. beyond. natural pet food. the winter of '77.uring i first met james i

bobby kennedy's sitting behind his desk. he's got his suit and tie on. bobby has been shown cia reports of troop movements in cuba compiled by agents on the ground. amidst the rising tension, bobby seeks urgent reassurance from his russian friend about the military build-up on the island. >> the kennedys are a little suspicious of what's going into cuba. and bobby asked bolshakov, what are you doing here? bolshakov says they're defensive weapons, not offensive weapons. >> bobby no longer trusts the benign version of events he's getting from moscow. >> the moment that bobby became convinced that he was getting disinformation about what was really going on in cuba, that's the moment he said, you're out of here. >> six days later, as jack and the family host the algerian prime minister at the white house, the surveillance images provide positive proof of offensive missile sites in cuba. for curtis lemay, jack's hawkish air force chief of staff, this means war. >> curtis lemay was ready to fire the missile that is he controlled. he was willing to see millions

he was exactly the sort of villain that bobby kennedy would want to take on. ancana in a senate hearing in the 1950s, the fat was in the fire. that was a confrontation that was never going to go away. >> so the fbi detail in chicago begins harassing sam giancana and his top lieutenants. >> they follow giancana everywhere, wiretapping his girlfriends, even on to the golf course. >> were we afraid? no. as a matter of fact, we were pushed very hard by robert kennedy to do everything we could. he was a great guy if you were his friend. i would not have wanted to be his enemy. >> bobby's investigations may be hitting too close to home. >> this guy was well known to joe kennedy, and he was a co-investor in a large casino. he and joe kennedy had bought condos in the hotel vicinity. >> wiretapped by the fbi, giancana makes a shocking allegation about joe kennedy. >> on the fbi tapes you can hear giancana bragging that he has a deal with joe kennedy, with the patriarch. giancana thinks that he helped jfk get elected by arranging for him to get some votes in chicago. is

bobby kennedy managed to get black vote and also get a lot of the established democrats. rst primary test in his attempt to secure the democratic nomination for the presidency. >> my father really focused on the people in this country. his appeal was to really the most disenfranchised classes, people who lived in appalachia, blacks who lived in the delta, people from harlem, watts, oakland, and of course farm workers. very similar to martin luther king focusing on the poor and working people. >> in the aftermath of dr. king's assassination, it's coretta scott king who has the legacy of her husband to draw upon to make the case that change was needed now. >> my husband always said that if anything happened to him to carry on his work for his people. >> coretta was always an activist. before martin was an activist. and she continued to be outspoken in order to make the point that you can kill my husband, but this movement is going to go on. >> we have seen the power of nonviolence in the movement for civil rights. the campaign for the poor must go on. >> king's notion was to

and if he ran kbens johnson he would chalk it it up to lowing the lyndon johnson. >> bobby kennedy andther. >> this man is mean, >> this man is mean, vicious, an animal in many ways. >> i believe bobby is having his cafes, and he is having systematically one after another each day. all of it makes bobby look like a great hero and makes me look like a son of a bitch. >> bobby kennedy doesn't go after lbj until he is wounded. >> i am announcing today my candidacy for the president of the united states. i run now because it is unmistakably clear that we can change these divisive, disastrous policies only by changing the men who are now making them. >> can you imagine the anger that johnson had? here -- here was his nightmare. >> i hear lbj is trying to get rid of 150 pounds -- bobby kennedy. mine's way better. this one's below market price and has bluetooth. same here, but this one has leather seats! use the cars.com app to compare price, features and value. totally re-mixed. [ music: "bygones" by oliver ] introducing the all-new volkswagen jetta. do you really think i woke up like this?

really it seems like his children are buying this conspiracy theory as to how -- sirhan met with bobby kennedy was a decision that the 64-year-old made after years of researching his father's assassination in 1968. kennedy doesn't get into the details of that conversation, but the post says it lasted about three hours their conversation, and kennedy walks away believing the conspiracy che theory that a second gunman must have been present in the basement of that hotel. this comes just over a week of the 50th anniversary of that fateful day, the day, june 5, 1968, martin luther king jr. had been assassinated a few months prior. and bobby kennedy had just made his presidential bid. bobby kennedy was shot four times and died a day later. sirhan told law enforcement officials years later that he blacked out. >> obviously i was there, but i don't remember the exact moment, i don't remember pulling my gun. >> the way we get these conspiracy chetheories. here's what kennedy told the post about that meeting with his father's convicted killer who's now currently serving a life sentence, quote, i was di

bobby's ruthless desire to be president or his loathing of lyndon johnson. >> lyndon johnson and bobby kennedy, in many ways. >> i believe that bobby is -- >> bobby kennedy doesn't go after lbj until he's politically wounded. that he doesn't go after him. >> i'm announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the united states. i run because it's now unmistakably clear that we can change these disastrous, divisive policies only by changing the men who are now making them. >> can you imagine the anger that johnson had. >> i hear lbj's trying to get rid of 150 pounds, bobby kennedy. ♪ cleaning floors with a mop and bucket is a hassle, meaning you probably don't clean as often as you'd like. for a quick and convenient clean, try swiffer wetjet. there's no heavy bucket, or mop to wring out, because the absorb and lock technology traps dirt and liquid inside the pad. it's safe to use on all finished surfaces tile, laminate and hardwood. and it prevents streaks and hazing better than a micro fiber strip mop, giving you a thorough clean the first time. for a convenient clean, try swiffer wetjet w

bobby kennedy actually used that. the party is divided. >> that's right, the party was clearly, there was a huge division. one thing worth pointing out though about the new hampshire vote, 20% voted for george wallace, it wasn't a bunch of hippies saying we shouldn't bring johnson home. he wanted a way out of vietnam. they didn't care if it was withdrawal or escalation, they wanted to find a way to bring troops home, there's a lot of this, he didn't run on a mass form, and he send a message to washington about how you feel about the war effort and he could bring in people not just opposed to the war but he could bring in more moderate, conservative voters who supported the war effort, but were upset with how the way the world was going to it created a big coalition in new hampshire. >> four days after, robert f. kennedy enters the race. president johnson announcing he will not seek reelection. of course senator kennedy winning the california primary on the evening of june four, and then tragically shot after midnight,

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loved bobby kennedy.had developed a softer side after the death of his brother. cynical mob busting hard head. here's someone who's as powerful as anyone but who identifies with common people in a way that you hadn't seen anybody in the top of american society do. >> bobby's wife and greatest champion ethyl shares in his greatest trials. >> i'm not doing this in the order of importance, but i also want to thank my wife ethyl. >> ethyl lives for this moment because she's always believed bobby had a lot to offer. and now it is bobby's turn. >> he felt very confident as he stood on that stage as the ambassador of the hotel. you could see it in his face, he knew he had a real shot. >> my thank tuesday all of you. >> bobby was supposed to turn right and go into a pressroom. >> but some teenyboppers get in the way. kennedy is cut off from his own bodyguard. the hotel manager turns him around and aims him to exit through the kitchen. his bodyguard gets thereto late. >> it's complete chaos. everybody's screaming

the way that bobby kennedy has been a -- pretrade. it was far from inevitable that he would become the democratic nominee and that johnson would've come through. to sabotage him after the convention in chicago ? >> we talked about rockefeller being a hamlet. bonnie was a hammer. he didn't want to lose. he thought going up against a sitting president was going to be too formidable. it fell to mccarthy who was more of a poet to go up against johnson. he didn't get the majority in new hampshire. he basically knocked johnson out of new hampshire. and that led johnson to get out of the race he ran a dramatic and fascinating campaign. it was an absolutely clear that he was running a campaign that was going get him into a position of winning the nomination or the presidency mccarthy one in oregon, bobby one in nebraska. but coming to the shift in alignment that we have been talking about. he was getting his victories with a narrow base of the democratic party. that could been very bad for him. >> in the general election there was one speech

>> bobby kennedy appears in a few critical times.ome people have definitely heard of the speech kennedy was campaigning for the democratic primary he learned of the assassination when he landed a. you spoke extemporaneously and it's apparently the first time that he spoke in public about his own brother's assassination so in a way, he opened up his own wound for that crowd to see and it was one of the few cities that depend really have an uprising. it opened up a focus on race in america where up until the assassination, the predominant issue in the presidential campaign is vietnam and that is why lyndon johnson declared he wasn't seeking reelection and why eugene mccarthy's candidacy was becoming so popular because he was antiwar and kennedy was also an antiwar candidate. robert kennedy showed himself able to talk to that part, coming apart racially in a way that they couldn't talk about and that is why so many hopes were grafted onto the campaign as he was picking up on this sort of vacuum that had developed. he attended the funera

bobby kennedy: i have some very sad wsws for all o oyou, a and,i think, sad news for all of our fellowns, and people whwo love peace all over the worlrld. and ththat is that martin n lutr kingng was shot and was kikilled toninight in memphphis, tennese. amy: 1968: a year in revolt. in this democracy now special, we look back

one of bobby kennedy's sons is questioning whether the man convicted of the 1968 killing is actuallyity. he leaves a second gunman, not sirhan sirhan is the one who shot the fatal shots that killed his dad. he met with sirhan in prison, i went there because i was curious and disturbed by what i had seen in the evidence. i was disturbed that the wrong person might have been convicted of killing my father. my father was the chief law enforcement officer in this country. i think it would have disturbed him if somebody was put in jail for a crime they didn't commit. >> when you read all the details lads out in this washington post piece, the number of gunshots, the way bobby kennedy was facing in the kitchen. >> well, as an historian, i'm an open minded is that many of the questions were raised in the early 1970s, and they led to a reexamination of the assassination in 1977. it was overseen or sponsored by the l.a. county. that examination looked at the following issues. first of all, was sir han sir han standing there? rfk, a number of witnesses say rfk turned, turned to see ethel or th

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really feel about something, you don't put it off, you have to do something about it now. >> bobby kennedy'she nature of the campaign. with him gone, whoever was going to be the nominee of the democratic party had to come to grips with what kennedy represented. >> i'd like to present to you vice president of the united states, hubert h. humphrey, for a few words. thank you. >> hubert humphrey could have come out against the war, but he didn't want to do that because he didn't want to jeopardize his own nomination because lyndon johnson had all the levers of power in the democratic party. >> i am the vice president of the united states. the vice president of the united states does not make the policy. >> he is a puppet, so you can't tell what he will think or do in office because he's not used to thinking for himself. the final say in the delegate selection was in the hands of the party bosses and lyndon johnson. >> someone questioned johnson about humphrey's loyalty. he said, don't worry about hubert, i've got his pecker in my pocket. >> earlier this year, top u.s. leaders vowed that the mar

. >> so i say this and this is not a criticism, and i mean this as a positive, bobby kennedy ticked a lot of people off, labor did not like him, the southern democrats not a fan and lyndon johnson did not like him at all and i think it would have been hard for him to win the nomination, in a large part because of johnson, but i think the threat of kennedy being the nominee would have been enough to convince johnson to have given humphrey more leeway to distance himself on the white house and the war on vietnam, and this ended up being he couldn't bring back liberals in his own party to support his can him. i think if kennedy would have lived would have helped him to be a nominee and there's nothing on vietnam i don't like, but after kennedy was killed there was no longer an issue. johnson fought tooth and nail. humphrey tried recreating the sum over of '68 to craft a message that would be somewhat his own message of the board to say that johnson is lacking and to his discredited, when the law went down it ended up in the convention in chicago at the dnc, he even dorgs ed endorsed the

the paper quotes one of bobby kennedy's sons who is now questioning whether the man convicted of killings actually responsible. robert f. kennedy jr. tells "the post" he believes a second gunman, not sirhan sirhan, is to blame. i want to bring in cnn presidential historian tim naftali. tim, first, you'r reaction. i'm sorry, tim, i'm being told this is a live picture from the oval office with joshua holt, the young man imprisoned in venezuela who he was freed today and brought back to the united states. we'll take it to the oval office now. >> we have, as you know, josh holt and his wife tammy. they came back from a very tough ordeal in a venezuelan prison almost two years, josh, and, you know, amazing that you were able to take it. your daughter marion is here and your parents, jason and laurie. and you went through a lot. and you were in there fighting all the way. and i want to thank bob corker, great job you did over there, great job. i want to thank mike lee. and mia, every time i would see mia, she would talk about you, josh, she would say, what about josh, and i would say, can we t

earlier this week was down at the university of virginia to speak about my book "bobby kennedy, a raging palm beach. the following monday i'll speak to the new york historical society, all in preparation for the 50th anniversary of robert kennedy's death june 2nd and this historic funeral train to arlington national cemetery where he was buried alongside his brother. what would it have been like had he not been gunned down a half century ago? my answer is an american presidency as unlike this one as humanly imaginable. bobby kennedy with all his heart, worked with all his heart to look out for the people society too often overlooked. me worked with all his heart to unite people, those who went to college and those who didn't, working class people and middle class people of all kinds. look at the people at the tracks that day, the african-american, those with grief and reverence. discover for yourself this man who earned such reverence and gave america such hope. thanks for being with us. >>> breaking tonight there's new that robert mueller is looking for the day that donald trump took of

what made bobby kennedy go down to part of the country, the poor part of mississippi, the delta that him had bothered to. >> thanks for having me on. robert kennedy went down there as part of a senate subcommittee investigation. they were having some hearings about reauthorizing some of the war on poverty programs about two and a half years in. one thing i think is different than when we look back on it, sometimes people think it's like celebrities do now which is not a bad thing but call attention to -- use their celebrity to call attention to a problem but he was actually there almost on a fact finding mission. . the reporter daniel shore who are cbs reporter who did the report that night caught him an inspector general. what was especially significant to me was that he made unscheduled stops. he was a rich man's son and he was used to having people tell him what they wanted him to see and wanted him to do, but he would say let's stop here and find out. he would ask questions to mothers about how they fed their children, what did they have in their refrigerator. how were the povert

earlier this week i was down at the university of virginia to speak about my book "bobby kennedy.irit." this monday i'll be addressing the xlub this palm beach. the following monday, i'll speak to the historical society in preparation for the 50th anniversary this june 2nd of robert kennedy's death and his historic funeral train passing from new york down to arlington cemetery where he was buried alongside his brother, president kennedy. the inevitable question i'm asking is what would it have been like had he not been gunned down a half century ago? and the american presidency is unlike this one, as human ly as imaginable. he worked with all his hard people, those who went to college and those working people and middle-class people of all kinds. look at the people along the train tracks that day. the african-americans in grief, the people saluting from all backgrounds with such reverence. i hope that between now and june 6th you get a copy of "bobby kennedy: a raging spirit," a man who earned such reverence and gave america such hope. that's "hardball" for now. thank you for bein

of course the assassination of bobby kennedy took place in 1968, which was a year that changed americaht original series event, "1968" explores the icons and the milestones of that pivotal year. here is cnn's tom foreman. >> reporter: outrage over racially charged deaths, violent clashes between police and the african-american community. >> all black men don't have to die! >> reporter: and demands for fair, equal treatment, all part of a struggle for social justice now. but that modern movement owes much to the 1960s when a great many similar scenes unfolded. throughout that decade, friction had been building over integration, voter rights and disparities in education, work and housing opportunities. >> freedom comes to us either by ballots or by bullets. >> reporter: the slaying of malcolm x, the black panthers and a rising sense of iet saw the landmark book "soul on ice" appear. they raised their fist against racial inequality and it all came to a head -- >> of the freedom of assembly. somewhere i read of the freedom of speech. somewhere i read that the greatness of america is the ri

bakel's cousin bobby kennedy, jr., has stood by him through the years. >> he's innocent.now he's innocent. >> reporter: skakel was originally convicted in 2002 and served ten years of a life n,ntence before a lower court vacated the sentence in 2013. just 16 months ago, the connecticut supreme court had reinstated the conviction, but in a rare move, reversed itself today. dorothy moxley, the victim's 85-year-old mother, told "the hartford courant" she was shocked by the decision. she remembered her daughter in 2008 in an interview with cbs "48 hours." .> martha was one of these children that was just so easy. she just was so easy to raise, to do things with. >> glor: tony is here with us now. the big question is, what is next for the investigation? >> reporter: well, it's now up ti state prosecutors to decide whether to retry skakel, who in the meantime is a free man. in a scathing, scathing dissent, one of the judges accused her colleagues of giving special treatment to skakel because of his wealth, his race, and his connections to the kennedy family. >> glor: tony, grea

the way that bobby kennedy has been a -- pretrade.t was far from inevitable that he would become the democratic nominee and that johnson would've come through. to sabotage him after the convention in chicago ? >> we talked about rockefeller being a hamlet. bonnie was a hammer. he didn't want to lose. he thought going up against a sitting president was going to be too formidable. it fell to mccarthy who was more of a poet to go up against johnson. he didn't get the majority in new hampshire. he basically knocked johnson out of new hampshire. and that led johnson to get out of the race he ran a dramatic and fascinating campaign. it was an absolutely clear that he was running a campaign that was going get him into a position of winning the nomination or the presidency mccarthy one in oregon, bobby one in nebraska. but coming to the shift in alignment that we have been talking about. he was getting his victories with a narrow base of the democratic party. that could been very bad for him. >> in the general election there was one speech in

it wasn't until 1961 that bobby kennedy discovered juvenile delinquency. he created a task force. they said we need to look at the juvenile delinquency issue. they got that part right. but what they didn't get right was this notion that they listened to the sister because it was such an annoyance. what if he was listening to her because on issues that mattered to eunice kennedy shriver she knew what worked. and she didn't want to waste any time. she wanted him to focus. he hasn't no record of caring about this issue at all. in the united states congress. lackluster career in the house all better in the senate. it was designed to give federal dollars to train teachers and special education. they walked out of the hearing before the testimony began. much to the annoyance of the community that knew what the rest of the country did not that this issue have touched the kennedy family as well. but what they didn't know is that they would have an advocate in the kennedy family much more committed. to put money into special education. to make sure they have the right to the seat in the cl

offense, number of including the assassination of martin luther king jr., bobby kennedy, a president who said he would not be running for a second term all early in 68. leading up to this election in which you had hubert humphrey as the democratic nominee, you had richard nixon as the republican nominee, and you had a character that i introduced one or two weeks back, george wallace. running as an independent. richard nixon emerges from the election the winner. nixon comes from california. i told you some of this last week. in 1968 he seeks to make the south and integral part of his .lection plan he talks about america. he talks about a silent majority. the people who are not necessarily protesting in the streets or on college campuses. what emerges with this appeal to law and order. this appeal to a constituency that often turned out to be quite white and quite southern. ultimatelyncy that would become the core, the bedrock of nixon's rise and success again in 1972. shows the outcome of the 68 election. you will notice that in wins a wide swath across the upper south and all the way

you had a number of events, including the assassination of martin luther king jr., bobby kennedy, a president lyndon johnson who essentially said he would not be running for a second term, all early in 1968. leading up to the selection in which you had hubert humphrey as the democratic company, richard nixon as the republican nominee, and you had a character and individual i introduced a week or so back of course, george wallace, in this case 1960 running as an independent. in 1968 running as an independent. nixon emerges as the winner. nixon comes from southern california, and i told you some of this last week, a quaker background religiously, but in 1968 he seeks to make the south and integral part of his election plan, of his campaign. he talks about broadly america, and he talks about a silent people who are not necessarily out protesting in the streets or on college campuses. and ultimately what emerges with this appeal to law and order, this appeal to a constituency that often turned out to be ,uite white, and quite southern but a constituency that ultimately will become the core, the b

. >>> the assassination of john and bobby kennedy shocked the world and now 50 years after bobby's deathinvestigation. in a "washington post" report robert kennedy jr. explains why he believes that the man convicted of the crime, sirhan sirhan was not the one who shot his father. what led to this conclusion? >> reporter: this is just a series of investigations on his point, so that's why he wanted to interview him. one of rfk's sons are -- robert kennedy met with sirhan sirhan. it was a decision that the 64-year-old years after his father's assassination in 1968. kennedy doesn't get into much of that confrontation, but the post said that it lasted for three hours, and kennedy walks away believing that this conspiracy theory was that -- this news of kennedy's quest for answer comes just about a week before the 50th anniversary of that fateful day, it was june 5, it was at the heart of the civil rights movement. two months prior, dr. martin luther king was assassinated and robert kennedy had just launched his presidential bid. he was shot moments later, four times and he died a day later.

when you look at what happened to people's opinions and their view of the world, bobby kennedy is someonewho changed an average amount for someone with their eyes open and appea appeaf time there were people who went through more dramatic changes within bobby kennedy and that's something i go into in depth about how the 60s changed everyone. gene mccarthy and everyone else in the senate voted for the gulf of tonkin resolution. that was the resolution president johnson didn't used to wage a full-fledged war. mccarthy wanted to go to back a few years later and ended up running for president because the hero of the integration of the university when he was deputy attorney general is nicolas standing in the doorway steamrolling over governor george wallace to integrate university and a couple years later under secretary of state testify and to the foreign relations committee were gene mccarthy is a member and he says he believes the declarations of the war or outmoded and that the president has all of the authority needs to wage war in vietnam at any level he wants to and there is nothing con

sort of like bobby and jack kennedy had. almost -- mitchell went to jail. like nixon and mitchell had. infinite level of communication. not one where the president is afraid of what he is saying to the a.g. >> martha: judge napolitano. always good to see you. thank you very much. >> my pleasure. hear. >> martha: here now is corey lewandowski. author of "let trump be trump." thank you for being here. what is your take on that? do you believe that the white house, that the president when he talks about spy gate is talking about a different individual who was embedded into the campaign at the behest of the fbi and who was an agent or is it your understanding that the white house is also talking about this professor who was questioning some sort of peripheral campaign members? >> you know, i haven't spoken to the president about this directly. but it's my understanding, based on, you know, what james clapper has talked about, that he has admitted that they took government resources and tried to get information from the trump campaign to, quote: protect the camp

this is not bobby orr jack kennedy. this is not barack obama. this is the base cesspool bigotry of american society, the underbelly of our worst ini think its amplified by a man who continues to tweet bigotry day in and day out. he turned the nation into a stooik commode into which he dumps his beliefs. >> sinbad, i'm asking you her defense is it was a bad joke saying that valerie jarrett is the daughter of an animal. and a terrorist. that was just a joke. what do you make of of it. >> we can't hide as artists behind bad jokes. we tell bad jokes. they mean you don't get a laugh. once you put ape and black woman together, called michelle obama ape, they've called us apes throughout our lives. you can't hide behind that. i have more respect if you stand with it. i used to drive around with roseanne. she was my prend. when she first came to would, she asked me to find her a black female manager and then as time goes on, these kind of tweets come out, i'm like this. i don't know what you're trying to say but it's not what you used to do. when i say

. >> bobby kennedy's son, robert kennedy jr., obviously agrees with you from this perspective.o you talk to rfk jr. a lot? do you speak with him often, and what do you think about his new push for a second investigation to take place? >> well, i've been talking to him for the last several years, and he finally decided that he had to take a stand as well because justice for his father is finding second gunman. justice is not dealing with sirhan. he deserves justice, too, and should be out of prison, and he understands that. we've been talking about this for several years. when i decided to go to the parole board hearing a couple years ago, i talked to him about it. he says -- and i said is it okay with you, and he says, yes, you're doing the right thing. he did the right thing, too, recently by going there and telling sirhan that you did not shoot my father, and i know that. >> quickly, sir, because we do have to wrap up. if there is a cover-up, who do you think is behind it? do you have a theory? >> have no theories at all. i don't operate on theories. i'm operating mainly on t

it wasn't until 1961 that bobby kennedy discovered juvenile the link was he when he was attorney general and he created task force. who do you think told him to create that task force? she said we need to look at the juvenile delinquency issue. embarrassed feel biography of the boys that i read eunice is portrayed as a pain in the. they got that part right. what they didn't get right was this notion that president kennedy listen to his sister because she was such an annoyance. what if he was listening to her because, on issues that matter to eunice kennedy shriver, she knew what worked and she knew what didn't work and she didn't want to waste any time. she wanted him to focus on stuff that mattered. he has no record of caring about this issue at all in the united states congress. lackluster career in the house , a little better in the senate but on the senate he was on the committee that would've heard the very first piece of federal legislation that was designed to give federal dollars to trained teachers and special education. jack kennedy walked out of the hearing before the testimon

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. >> talk about the assassinations of martin luther king junior and bobby kennedy.l rights icon, a social justice icon being killed. >> i think it was so profoundly devastating for everybody in the country who cared about those two men and it also ultimately disenfranchised many of the youth of america who held up so much hope with both of those men. >> david, you were one of those young people in 1968 as a teenager, you say the events of that year really had an impact on you in the career path you pursued. >> well, look, i can't -- it's hard to describe what it was like to be a young teenager in that time and, you know, i came of age in the kennedy era. i'm an idealest still and believe in the idealism the kennedys stand for and there was a feeling that something bigger than one person had died with robert kennedy and i remember being hoing home alone and seei bulletin martin luther king was killed and seeing the haunting tape of him talking the night before how he might not get to the promise land but as a people, we'll get to the promise land. i remember getting

it wasn't until 1961 that bobby kennedy discovered juvenile delinquency when he was attorney general and he created a task force. who do you think told him to create that task force? eunice went to jack, jack went to bobby. he says eunice says we need to look the juvenile delinquency issue. in biography after biography of the boys that i read, eunice is portrayed as a pain in the ass. they got that part right. they got that part right. [laughter]. what they didn't get right that this notion that president kennedy listened to his sister he was such an annoyance he wanted to get her off the phone. what if he was listening to her, issues that mattered to eunice kennedy shriver she knew what worked and she knew what didn't work and she didn't want to waste anytime. she wanted him to focus on stuff that mattered. and he did. he has no record of caring about this issue at all in the united states congress. lackluster career in the house. a little better in the senate but in the senate he was on the committee that would have heard the very first piece of federal legislation that was designed

why bobby kennedy's son wants the investigation into his father's assassination re-opened