Robert F. Kennedy

:This is the most common use of RFK. For other uses, see RFK (disambiguation).

Personal life

In 1950, he married Ethel Skakel, who would eventually give birth to 11 children. The last child, Rory Kennedy, was born after her father's assassination.

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1950 - Ethel Skakel - Rory Kennedy

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Kennedy owned a home at the well-known Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts on Cape Cod but spent most of his time at his estate in Virginia, known as Hickory Hill, located just outside Washington, DC. His widow, Ethel, and his children continued to live at Hickory Hill after his death in 1968. Ethel Kennedy now lives full time at the family's vacation home in Hyannis Port.

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Kennedy Compound - Hyannis Port - Massachusetts - Cape Cod - Virginia - Washington, DC - Ethel

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His pallbearers included Robert McNamara, John Glenn, Averell Harriman, C. Douglas Dillon, Kirk Lemoyne Billings (schoolmate of John F. Kennedy), Stephen Smith (husband to Jean Ann Kennedy), David Hackett, Jim Whittaker, John Seigenthaler Sr., and Lord Harlech.

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Robert McNamara - John Glenn - Averell Harriman - C. Douglas Dillon - Jean Ann Kennedy - Jim Whittaker - John Seigenthaler Sr. - Lord Harlech

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Actress Marilyn Monroe allegedly had affairs with both Robert and John Kennedy during the 1960s.

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Honors

D.C. Stadium in Washington, D.C. was renamed Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in 1969.

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Washington, D.C. - Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium - 1969

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In 1998, the United States Mint released a special dollar coin that featured Kennedy on the obverse and the emblems of the United States Department of Justice and the United States Senate on the reverse.

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1998 - United States Mint - United States Department of Justice - United States Senate

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In Washington, DC on November 20, 2001, US President George W. Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft dedicated the Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, honoring RFK on what would have been his 76th birthday. They both spoke during the ceremony, as did Kennedy's eldest son, Joseph II, who made reference to his uncle John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Profiles in Courage, when he said to the president as he spoke: "Mr. President, your strength since September 11 has been a profile in leadership." http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/20/se.07.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011120-15.html http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/20/se.08.html

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Washington, DC - November 20 - 2001 - George W. Bush - John Ashcroft - Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building - Joseph II - Pulitzer Prize - Profiles in Courage - September 11

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Numerous roads, public schools and other facilities across the United States were named in memory of Robert F. Kennedy in the months and years after his death.

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Writing

Considered an eloquent speaker generally, RFK also wrote extensively on politics and issues confronting his generation:

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• ' (1969)
• To Seek a Newer World (1969).