Martyrs Of Hope: Martin Luther King And Robert Kennedy

January, 1969

When Senator Robert F. Kennedy was informed of the murder of the Reverend Martin Luther King last April fourth, he was dining at an elegant restaurant in Indianapolis. As a group of prosperous bigots at a nearby table joyously toasted the assassination, Kennedy raced to the city's black ghetto, which was already beginning to seethe with unrest, and told a tense crowd, "I can understand your feelings; a member of my family was killed by a white man, too."" Kennedy added, however, t...