Robert Kennedy was born November 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the seventh of nine children, to Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Central to Robert Kennedy's politics and personal attitude to life and its purpose was his Catholicism, which he inherited from his family.
The assassination of President Kennedy, which happened two days after Robert Kennedy's 38th birthday, was a brutal shock to the world, the whole nation, and the Kennedy family—but especially to Robert.