John R. Hickman Audio Collection, 1925 - 1975. Sound Recordings of Historical Radio Broadcasts, World War II Government Documentaries, and Popular Radio Shows, 1906 - 1993. Robert F. Kennedy, ca. 1968.

ArchivalResource

John R. Hickman Audio Collection, 1925 - 1975. Sound Recordings of Historical Radio Broadcasts, World War II Government Documentaries, and Popular Radio Shows, 1906 - 1993. Robert F. Kennedy, ca. 1968.

1968

This sound recording compiles actuality news coverage of the assassination of Robert Kennedy by WNEW news Metromedia radio in New York. It includes the voices of Senator Robert Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson, Ethel Kennedy, Archbishop Terence Cooke, Cardinal Cushing, Senator Edward Kennedy, Andy Williams, and Roy Wilkins.

eng, Latn

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11613498

National Archives at College Park

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Cushing, Richard James Cardinal, 1895-1970

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wj3fhn (person)

Richard James Cushing (August 24, 1895 – November 2, 1970) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Boston from 1944 to 1970 and was made a cardinal in 1958. Cushing's main role was as fundraiser and builder of new churches, schools, and institutions. Unlike his predecessor, he was on good terms with practically the entire Boston elite, as he softened the traditional confrontation between the Catholic Irish and the Protestant upper-class. He built useful r...

Williams, Andy, 1927-2012

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tv5g11 (person)

Cooke, Terence, 1921-1983

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kh1vrv (person)

Cardinal of the Archdiocese of New York. From the description of Letters, 1970-1978. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 53982869 ...

Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s46r5z (person)

Civil rights leader and journalist; d. 1981. From the description of Papers, 1915-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31605113 Roy Wilkins was born in St. Louis, Missouri, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota. Wilkins edited the KANSAS CITY CALL, a Black newspaper, from 1923 to 1931. Wilkins became Assistant Secretary of the NAACP in 1931 and became Executive Secretary in 1955. Under his leadership the NAACP grew to 350,000 members. ...

Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vf7ngv (person)

Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK and occasionally by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was the brother of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Senator Edward Moore Kennedy. Kennedy and his brothers were born into a wealthy,...

Kennedy, Ethel, 1928-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61r7jg8 (person)

Kennedy, Edward Moore, 1932-2009

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64c3qcm (person)

Edward Moore Kennedy (b. Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Mass.-d. Aug. 25, 2009), graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in government in 1956, and received his LL.B. from the University of Virginia in 1959. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. He was elected democratic senator from Massachusetts in 1962, served until his death in August 2009. He was the Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County from 1961 to 1962, and sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1980....