Robert Kennedy

The 1968 Fasting Statement was a declaration by Cesar Chavez upon concluding his 25-day water-only fast. Undertaken as a spiritual act and a commitment to nonviolence, Chavez's fast aimed to reaffirm the United Farm Workers' (UFW) peaceful principles. It served as penance for any violent…

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is the federal government’s own picture history of our times—and it tells us more than you might think</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> If he’d been the closest companion of the president of IBM, you might happen across his name in a privately printed memoir. But LeMoyne Billings was John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s best friend from Choate to the White House—and that makes him part of history.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">As Hillary Clinton campaigns for a New York Senate seat, she’d do well to study the career of another effective outsider.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Organized crime? Mafia? A lot of people, including J. Edgar Hoover, said it was mere folklore, until one day in 1957 when an alert New York state trooper set up a roadblock in a small town. What followed was low comedy with high consequences.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Cuban Missile Crisis as seen from the Kremlin</span></p>

<p>CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite underwent a dramatic change of heart during the Vietnam War—and in doing so, changed the face of broadcast journalism.</p>

<p>In a pivotal trip in 1967, Senator Kennedy saw first-hand the effects of poverty in the Delta.</p>

<p>Maeve McKean, Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughter, and her young son died in a canoe.</p>