Some people call it the “Kennedy Curse.” But does that mean a series of coincidental tragedies over the decades, or an other-worldly campaign targeting the progeny of one of the most powerful men of the last century?
In other family tragedies up to that point, in the 1950s, Ethel Kennedy’s parents (Robert Kennedy’s in-laws) were killed in a plane crash in Oklahoma, and Ted Kennedy himself barely survived the fateful plane crash in 1964 that killed the pilot and one of his aides.
As episode after tragic episode piled up, it became increasingly difficult to dismiss the losses as misadventures or miscalculations.
And then came the murder of Robert F. Kennedy.
While his brother JFK had been in power, Robert (“Bobby”), the third Kennedy son, had been the Attorney General of the US. After the assassination, as one of his adversaries put it, he was “just another lawyer.”
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