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Robert F. Kennedy, the 64thUnited States Attorney General, a U.S. senator from New York, and the brother of United States presidentJohn F. Kennedy, has frequently been depicted or referenced in works of popular culture.
Robert Drew's 1963 documentaryCrisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment focused on GovernorGeorge Wallace'sStand in the Schoolhouse Door at theUniversity of Alabama.
Documentary filmmakerDA Pennebaker made several films featuring Kennedy. His short filmJingle Bells (1964) follows Kennedy and his children as they celebrate Christmas in New York City with local school children andSammy Davis Jr.[1] His later filmHickory Hill documents the 1968 Annual Spring Pet Show at Hickory Hill, the Kennedy Virginia estate.[2]
Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968), byCharles Guggenheim, honored Kennedy soon after his death.
In 1970, ABC-TV presentedDavid L. Wolper's filmThe Unfinished Journey of Robert F. Kennedy, narrated byJohn Huston.[3]
In 1973, Gérard Alcan directed and producedThe Second Gun, a film about Kennedy's murder.[4]
Shane O' Sullivan's 2007 documentaryRFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy investigates theassassination andconspiracy theories surrounding it.
The documentary film,A Ripple of Hope (2008), retells Kennedy's call for peace during a campaign stop in Indianapolis, on April 4, 1968, the evening of theassassination of Martin Luther King Jr.[5]
The documentary film,RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope (2010), follows his five-day visit to South Africa in June 1966, during which he made his famousRipple of Hope speech at theUniversity of Cape Town.[6]
The documentary film,Ethel (2012), about the life ofEthel Kennedy, recounts many of the major personal and political events of Kennedy's life, through interviews with family members including Ethel herself, and news footage.[7][8]
In 2018,Netflix released the 4-part documentaryBobby Kennedy for President that focused on his political rise and briefcampaign for president in 1968.[9]
Kennedy's role in theCuban Missile Crisis has been dramatized byMartin Sheen in the TV playThe Missiles of October (1974) and bySteven Culp inThirteen Days (2000).[10]
He is portrayed byJohn Shea in the TV miniseriesKennedy (1983).[11]
He is portrayed byCotter Smith in the television miniseriesBlood Feud (1983).
He is portrayed byBrad Davis in the three-part TV mini-seriesRobert Kennedy and His Times (1985), based on the book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.[12]
The 1985 filmPrince Jack portrays Attorney General Kennedy's (James F. Kelly) efforts to address theCivil rights movement.
He is portrayed byNicholas Campbell in the television mini-seriesHoover vs. The Kennedys (1987).
He was portrayed byKevin Anderson inHoffa (1992)[13][14] and byŽeljko Ivanek in the HBO filmThe Rat Pack (1998).[15]
He is played byLinus Roache in the made-for-TV movieRFK (2002), which portrays his life from the time of his brother's assassination to his own death.[16]
The filmBobby (2006) is the story of multiple people's lives leading up to RFK's assassination. The film employs stock footage from his presidential campaign, and he is briefly portrayed by Dave Fraunces.[17]
Barry Pepper won an Emmy for his portrayal of Kennedy inThe Kennedys (2011), an 8-part miniseries.[18][19]
In the biographical movieJ. Edgar (2011), RFK is played byJeffrey Donovan.[20]
He was played by Russell Lucas inSeven Days That Made a President (2013).
Jack Noseworthy plays Robert Kennedy in the 2013 filmKilling Kennedy.
He is played byPeter Sarsgaard in the film about Jacqueline Kennedy,Jackie (2016).[21][22]
He is played byJulian Ovenden in the TV seriesThe Crown in the episode "Dear Mrs Kennedy" (2017).
He is played byJack Huston inMartin Scorsese's filmThe Irishman (2019).[23]
The Rolling Stones began recording the song "Sympathy for the Devil" on June 4, 1968.[24] The original lyrics included the line, "I shouted out 'Who killed Kennedy?'", which was changed to, "I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys?'"[25]
The 1968 song "Abraham, Martin and John" is a tribute toAbraham Lincoln,Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.[26]
The song "Starlight" byTaylor Swift on her 2012 albumRed is about the courtship of Robert F. Kennedy and his wife Ethel.[27]
James Ellroy wrote a fictionalized historical version of Robert F. Kennedy in hisUnderworld USA Trilogy novels.[28][29] He is an important secondary character, and appears in two of the three novels in the trilogy:American Tabloid (1995) andThe Cold Six Thousand (2001).
British playwrightRoy Smiles' play about Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign,The Last Pilgrim, was staged in London in 2010.[30] It was shortlisted for Best Play at the Off West End Awards in the UK in 2011.[31]
Robert F. Kennedy is the inspiration behind British theatre maker Russell Lucas's 'The Bobby Kennedy Experience' , directed by Sarah-Louise Young.
Robert Lowell wrote several poems about Kennedy; hiselegy for him includes the line, "doom was woven in your nerves".[32]
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