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Voters under the gun. (Correction, Please!).
ITEM: "As the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, who was killed by an assassin's bullet, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has always favored gun control," reported Newsweek for October 21st. "But in a perhaps quixotic quest for rural votes, she had downplayed the issue in her Democratic campaign for governor of Maryland." That changed, said Newsweek, after a "sniper; using a high-powered rifle [began] to terrorize the Washington area...." She is now "offering gun control as one answer to the voters 'fears."
CORRECTION: There was nothing quixotic about the Kathleen Kennedy Townsend campaign, before or after she blew a 15-point lead. However, when sniper attacks began in suburbs of Maryland and Virginia around D.C., her campaign got new ammunition, Reneging on a vow not to exploit the shootings, Robert Kennedy's daughter did just that. She preened in Baltimore: "I have had a lot of tragedy in my life ...
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- Picture from: Magnum Photos Erich Hartmann January 1, 1963 700+ words
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- Picture from: Magnum Photos Erich Hartmann January 1, 1963 700+ words
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- In Love with Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy.
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect Navasky, Victor S. February 28, 2000 700+ words
...and that" [w]ho sketches Robert Kennedy does so at his peril" (Joseph Kraft in a sketch of Robert Kennedy). This was before David Halberstam...his purpose is less to understand Robert Kennedy than to deconstruct the Kennedy...
