Robert F. Kennedy appearing before the Platform Committee of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19, 1964.
*U.S. News & World Report collection at the Library of Congress/public domain*

Fifty years ago, Robert F. Kennedy was killed in California. Just two months earlier, he gave an impromptu speech in Indianapolis on the night Martin Luther King Jr. was killed.

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Advised against appearing before an inner city crowd in Indianapolis the night Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Robert Kennedy delivered an extemporaneous speech that brought a sense of peace to the city. This film weaves together first-person accounts...