Ubani uRFK?
Context:URobert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 <unk> June 6, 1968), owaziwa nangamagama akhe okuqala RFK futhi ngegama lakhe lesidlaliso uBobby, wayengusopolitiki nommeli waseMelika. Usebenze njengoMshushisi Jikelele wase-United States wama-64 kusukela ngoJanuwari 1961 kuya kuSepthemba 1964 nanjengoSenator wase-US waseNew York kusukela ngoJanuwari 1965 waze wabulawa. Njengabafowabo uJohn F. Kennedy noTed Kennedy, wayeyilungu elivelele leDemocratic Party futhi abanye osomlando bambheka njengesithonjana se-American liberalism yanamuhla.
URobert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 <unk> June 6, 1968), owaziwa nangamagama akhe okuqala RFK futhi ngegama lakhe lesidlaliso uBobby, wayengusopolitiki nommeli waseMelika. Usebenze njengoMshushisi Jikelele wase-United States wama-64 kusukela ngoJanuwari 1961 kuya kuSepthemba 1964 nanjengoSenator wase-US waseNew York kusukela ngoJanuwari 1965 waze wabulawa. Njengabafowabo uJohn F. Kennedy noTed Kennedy, wayeyilungu elivelele leDemocratic Party futhi abanye osomlando bambheka njengesithonjana se-American liberalism yanamuhla.  UKennedy wazalelwa emkhayeni ocebile, wezombangazwe eBrookline, eMassachusetts. Ngemuva kokukhonza e-US Naval Reserve kusukela ngo-1944 kuya ku-1946, uKennedy wabuyela ezifundweni zakhe eHarvard University, futhi kamuva wathola iziqu zakhe zomthetho e-University of Virginia. Waqala umsebenzi wakhe njengombhali we-Boston Post futhi njengommeli eMnyangweni Wezobulungiswa, kodwa kamuva wasula ukuze aphathe umkhankaso ophumelelayo womfowabo uJohn weSenate yase-US ngo-1952. Ngonyaka olandelayo, wasebenza njengomsizi wommeli ekomitini leSenate elaliholwa uSenator Joseph McCarthy. Wathola ukunakwa kuzwelonke njengomeluleki oyinhloko weSenate Labor Rackets Committee kusukela ngo-1957 kuya ku-1959, lapho aphonsela khona inselelo esidlangalaleni uMongameli we-Teamsters uJimmy Hoffa mayelana nemikhuba yenkohlakalo yenhlangano. UKennedy wasula ekomitini ukuze aqhube umkhankaso womfowabo owaphumelelayo okhethweni lukamongameli lwango-1960. Waqokwa njengoMshushisi-Jikelele wase-United States eneminyaka engu-35, omunye wamalungu kahulumeni omncane kunabo bonke emlandweni waseMelika. Wakhonza njengomeluleki oseduze kakhulu womfowabo kwaze kwaba yilapho lo mfowabo ebulawa ngo-1963.  Isikhathi sakhe sokuphatha saziwa ngokuvikela ukunyakaza kwamalungelo abantu, ukulwa nobugebengu obuhleliwe kanye ne-Mafia, kanye nokuzibandakanya kwinqubomgomo yezangaphandle yase-US ehlobene neCuba. Wabhala indaba yakhe yeCuban Missile Crisis encwadini enesihloko esithi Thirteen Days. Njengommeli-jikelele, wagunyaza i-Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ukuba ilalele izingcingo zikaMartin Luther King Jr. ne-Southern Christian Leadership Conference ngesisekelo esilinganiselwe. Ngemuva kokubulawa komfowabo, wahlala ehhovisi ngesikhathi sikaMongameli uLyndon B. Johnson izinyanga eziningana. Washiya ukuyofuna isikhundla seSenate yase-United States eNew York ngo-1964 futhi wanqoba umRepublican owayekhona uKenneth Keating. Esikhundleni sakhe, uKennedy waphikisana nokubandakanyeka kwe-U.S. eMpini yaseVietnam futhi wakhulisa ukuqwashisa ngobumpofu ngokuxhasa umthetho owenzelwe ukuheha amabhizinisi angasese emiphakathini eyonakele (okungukuthi, iphrojekthi yeBedford Stuyvesant Restoration). Wayengummeli wezindaba eziphathelene namalungelo abantu nobulungiswa bezenhlalo ngokuhambela phesheya eMpumalanga Yurophu, eLatin America naseNingizimu Afrika, futhi wakha ubudlelwano bokusebenza noMartin Luther King Jr., uCesar Chavez noWalter Reuther.  Ngo-1968, uKennedy waba umqokeleli oholayo wokhetho lweDemocratic lokuba ngumongameli ngokuncenga abampofu, abantu baseMelika base-Afrika, amaSpanishi, amaKatolika kanye nabavoti abasebasha. Umphikisi wakhe oyinhloko kulo mncintiswano kwakuyiSenator u-Eugene McCarthy. Ngokushesha ngemva kokuwina okhethweni lokuqala eCalifornia cishe phakathi kwamabili ngoJuni 5, 1968, uKennedy wadutshulwa uSirhan Sirhan, umPalestina oneminyaka engu-24 ubudala, okuthiwa wayeziphindiselela ngokusekela kwakhe u-Israyeli ngemva kweMpi Yezinsuku Eziyisithupha ka-1967. UKennedy washona ngemva kwamahora angu-25. USirhan waboshwa, waquliswa icala, futhi wagwetshwa, nakuba ukubulawa kukaKennedy, njengomfowabo, kuqhubeka kuyisihloko sokuhlaziywa okwandile nemibono eminingi yokuhlela.