The Second Coming of RFK

John P. Roche

Who WAS Bobby?” One of my students, aged roughly 22, came up to me after class with this question and the May 9 issue of Newsweek, featuring a cover picture of Robert F. Kennedy with a look of eagles in his eyes. I was taken aback—until I realized that on June 6, 1968, when he was murdered by an Arab terrorist after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, she was two years old.