RFK and the Civil Rights Movement

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RFK and the Civil Rights Movement

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Then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaks to a crowd outside the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., in 1963.

In this podcast, Truthdig’s Associate Editor Kasia Anderson talks with Murray Horwitz and Jonathan Estrin, the playwrights of “RFK: The Journey to Justice,” about Bobby Kennedy’s evolution from political animal to true believer in his transformative relationship with the civil rights revolution.

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