He says he’s ‘largely misunderstood’


It’s been 55 years since a gunman fatally shot his father – a presidential candidate at the time − but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can still vividly remember details of the tragedy.  

“We would slow to a crawl as we went through those stations, and we could hear them singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic,” he said of the crowds lining the tracks and watching the train carrying his father’s body from New York City to Washington, D.C. Kennedy recalled the train ride during a town hall earlier this month in the Philadelphia suburb of Norristown that coincided with the anniversary of his father’s assassination.

Kennedy, then 14, remembers watching nuns wave handkerchiefs and rosaries, women hold up babies and little league players with their hands on their hearts during the nearly 8-hour train ride that normally takes closer to three.  





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