Robert Kennedy :
The Last Best Hope?
Twelve years ago this week, SENATOR ROBERT KENNEDY was Shot in Los Angeles on the night of his victory in the Californian Primary. As the latest Kennedy bid for the White House also reaches its climax in California, Anthony Howard examines the personal promise and political potential of the second Kennedy to be assassinated. Was he the champion of the poor and oppressed or was he merely the heir to a legend and a dynasty? How much difference might it have made to America and the world if there had been a Kennedy Restoration in 1968? Among those looking back on Robert Kennedy 's contentious life and career - cut short at the age of 42 - are his widow Ethel Kennedy his son Robert Kennedy Jr Lord Harlech
Arthur Schlcsinger Jr Eugene McCarthy and Nicholas Katzenbach
Film editor ALAN TROTT
Research CHRISTOPHER WARREN Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT