Robert F. Kennedy

Barring a Few Unsavory Detours, Sample This Thrives in its Music and Legacy

The Loving Story

Teacher Data Released, Criticized; Nelson Mandela Hospitalized; Strong Winds Coming Through the City

Data rating 18,000 New York City teachers was released Friday, but not without strong caveats as both teachers and education leaders warned of flaws. Teachers are evaluated based on how much value they add as evidenced by change in student performance on standardized tests relative to measurement o ... More >>

After Cop Shooting, Mike Bloomberg Calls for Stricter Gun Laws

Last night, police officer Kevin Brennan was shot in the head in the Bushwick Houses in Brooklyn after he and his partners responded to a report of shots fired. Doctors at Bellevue Hospital successfully removed the bullet from the base of Brennan's skull, and as of last night, he was reported to be ... More >>

Barbara Long Gets a Crotch-Full From Joe Namath

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 17, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 40 Making Contact With Broadway Joe by Barbara Long The masses forever fend for themselves as best they can, and, forever elitists, young writers go straight to political leaders for that love and attentio ... More >>

Jack Newfield and Robert Kennedy: A Lunch that Launched a Memoir

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 5, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 34 Memoir of a Hero Who Died at Five by Clark Whelton In February of 1966, Jack Newfield appeared on a tv talk show to discuss his recently published book "A Prophetic Minority." During the course of the pro ... More >>

Yoko Ono's New Boyfriend

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 8, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 43 Scenes by Howard Smith YOKO ONO was a well-known New York happening artist a few years ago, especially noted for "Stone" at the Judson gallery (a room full of bulging black burlap sacks large enough fo ... More >>

Pete Hamill's Eyewitness Account of Robert Kennedy's Assassination

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 13, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 35 Two Minutes to Midnight: The Very Last Hurrah by Pete Hamill LOS ANGELES -- It was, of course, two minutes to midnight an the Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel was rowdy with triumph. Red and blue ba ... More >>

The Best Man

Nat Hentoff on McCarthyism. No, the OTHER McCarthyism.

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 25, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 28 Help! by Nat Hentoff Eugene McCarthy on the indictment of Spock, Coffin, Goodman, Raskin, Ferber: "The indictment is inexcusable...It seems to be part of a general policy of intimidation." Would some ... More >>

Brownsville Riots: "This Goddamn Mother-Sinking, Crooked Country"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 14, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 48 Absolutely Nothing To Get Alarmed About By Charles Wright Returned from a working vacation with the bloody stains of madness and luxury on my ungodly feet. Tony P. was looking for me and I crawled t ... More >>

Bobby Kennedy Takes a Walk on the Lower East Side

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 11, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 30 A Political Walk: Poor Man's East Side By Don McNeill After a Senate hearing on Grand Street to evaluate the War on Poverty and a gefilte fish lunch at Ratner's, Bobby Kennedy and Jacob Javits spent a rai ... More >>

Clip Job: The Frenetic Business of Being Bobby Kennedy

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 10, 1966, Vol. XII, No. 4 The Frenetic Business of Being Bobby Kennedy By Suzanne Kiplinger Senator Robert F. Kennedy came to Brooklyn Heights last Sunday, leaving in his wake several hundred frenetic, excited Bobby-Watchers ... More >>

Miriam Friedlander's Good Fight

​Miriam Friedlander, the spirited former councilwoman from the Lower East Side, died last week at 95, and we would count ourselves enormously lucky should her type come this way again. She was a tiny spitfire, a true product of the American Left who once faced down then-Attorney General Ro ... More >>

THE KENNEDY CURSE

Brian Lee Franklin's Good Bobby

Edward M. Kennedy, 1932-2009

​Last night Edward Kennedy, who had been suffering from brain cancer, succumbed at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. His life story is so well known as to hardly bear repeating: younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Presidential contender, Senator ... More >>

Clip Job: Mailer Endorses Bobby

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 29, 1964, Vol. X, No. 2A Vote for Bobby K. -- Possibility of a HeroBy Norman MailerWhen there first began to be talk, back last winter, of Bobby Kennedy going in against Kenneth Keating, I had the reaction of a prize fight manager ... More >>

Clip Job: Schlesinger Vs. Vidal

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 15, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 52Schlesinger vs. VidalBy Mary Perot NicholsArthur Schlesinger, Jr., liberal historian-cum-political pamphleteer, touched base at the Village Independent Democrats last week. And like his mission in behalf of Jac ... More >>

Clip Job: Bobby in the Village

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 8, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 51Bobby in the Village: 'Mommy, He Touched Me'By Jack NewfieldRobert F. Kennedy evoked Beatlemania, laughter, and tears during a tour of Greenwich Village Friday night. The Democratic-Liberal Senate candidate ... More >>

Clip Job: Gore Vidal Really Doesn't Like RFK for Senator

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 1, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 50Bobby is Not 'Best Man' for Playwright VidalBy Mary Perot NicholsThe author of "The Best Man" stood on a sidewalk at 74th Street and Madison Avenue on a rainy Monday and told TV and newspapermen that the best ma ... More >>

Clip Job: Bobby the K

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesSeptember 24, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 49Bobby the KBy Nat HentoffI am voting for neither Kennedy nor Keating so this is not an attempt to proselytize. It is, however, an attempt to begin to indicate how difficult it is going to be to change the Dem ... More >>

Clip Job: Miss Hansberry & Bobby K

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 6, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 33Miss Hansberry & Bobby KBy Diane Fisher"When we left the Kennedys' apartment I had a feeling of complete futility, and as we got on the elevator I wondered if there is any way to make the white people in this co ... More >>

Kerry Kennedy: How About Bobby? (Um, no.)

State to Blow $4 Million on Bridge Signs

Wayne Barrett on Grant Park, 1968 and 2008

Skirting the Issues with Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain

Who'll be hotter for the next four years: Cindy or Michelle?

RFK Must Die: Conspiracy Queries

Did Hillary watch this?

Who Will Replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate?

Sirhan Sirhan Still Number One with a Bullet

Josh Azzarella: Gone Missing

Eerily edited historical photos at DCKT Contemporary

Souvenirs and Slime: Inside the Greatest Collection of Presidential Campaign Memorabilia

Whole World in His Hands

With star-studded hero porn, Emilio Estevez blames the ills of the world on RFK's murder, but what about the man?

Horoscope

Supreme Court Obscenity

Imprisoned by the Supreme Court, Ralph Ginzburg and First Amendment survived

Executive Decisions

Corporate villains, constant surveillance: Jonathan Demme reprograms a '60s landmark

What’s Next for the Left?

Politics Beyond Rhetoric

The Man Who Stood Up to Bobby Kennedy

Alone on the Floor of the House

Stone Cold Warriors

Blues for Mr. Baldwin

That Girl

New York Senator Hillary Clinton?