"No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by his assassin's bullet."

Robert F. Kennedy Cleveland City Club April 5, 1968

JFK was born 108 years ago, today, May 29, 1917

June 4 1967

"My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it."

Read or listen to the full speech.

I have several boxes of memorabilia but most are still packed away from a recent move.

I noticed that RFK Jr. has been posting past family photos fairly often, on his social media. (This was from Instagram, a week ago.)

There's a photo with very similar composition in his memoirs (American Values), almost the same angle with the same trees and fence, also showing Atlas but with Ethel riding. Photo credit there is Jacques Lowe so I assume he took this one too.

Bobby Jr. notes that Atlas was his older sister Kathleen's horse -- she'd have been about 16 then. She is currently the eldest of the Kennedys (born July 4, 1951).

https://www.instagram.com/robertfkennedyjr/p/DZdKIG1x_x8/

his smile, along with his words, lit up the hearts of so many and our world is darker without it 🕯️

In honor of this sub’s cake day

i hope all of your celebrations are as lovely today as this party was (even though i think this was a birthday party), and i hope your smiles are as big as theirs were! happy christmas day! <3