''Bobby Kennedy for President'' is an American documentary television series that focuses on

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Robert F. Kennedy and his political rise in the 1960s. The four-part first series was released on

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on April 27, 2018. The series, run by director and executive producer Dawn Porter, looks at Kennedy's political lore, including his 1968 presidential campaign, which ended with his assassination on June 5, 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in

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. The show uses archival footage during Kennedy's time as

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and

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, as well as conversations he had with his brothers,

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and

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. In addition to archival footage, the show interviews dozens of individuals who, at one point, were in Kennedy's circle, including Rep.

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, Marian Wright Edelman, and

William vanden Heuvel William Jacobus vanden Heuvel ( ; April 14, 1930 – June 15, 2021) was an American attorney, businessman, author and diplomat of Dutch descent. He was known for advising Robert F. Kennedy during the latter's campaigns for Senate in 1964 and pr ...

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