Bobby Kennedy for President tracks how Kennedy asserted himself despite his brother’s shadow before he was assassinated in June 1968The year is 2020. Bobby Kennedy for President looks at the “Bobby phenomenon”, his stellar political rise that seemed destined to see him follow his slain brother Jack into the Oval Office until he was himself felled by a gunman in June 1968. It was in Indianapolis, two months before his death, that Robert Kennedy uttered those lyric words from the back of a flatbed truck. As the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s death approaches, there is a palpable nostalgia in the air, captured powerfully by Dawn Porter, the director of the Netflix series. As Bobby Kennedy’s friend, journalist Pete Hamill, puts it in the film, America in the 60s was “like some shooting gallery instead of a civilization”.

Source: The Guardian April 21, 2018 10:52 UTC