Robert F. Kennedy was born in June 1968.
Robert F. Kennedy . He gained national attention as the chief counsel of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee from 1957 to 1959 , where he publicly challenged Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa over the corrupt practices of its union and authored The Enemy Within , a book about corruption in organized labor . He left to run for the United States Senate from New York in 1964 and defeated Republican incumbent Kenneth Keating .