travels
the grave of Robert. F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy was born on November 20, 1925, in Brooklin (Massachusetts, USA). Brother of President John F. Kennedy, former Attorney General, Senator and Presidential candidate, he was shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles (California, USA) shortly after claiming victory in that state's crucial Democratic primary. He died the next morning and he was buried in Section 45 of Arlington National Cemetery (Virginia, USA), just steps from his brother's gravesite. In 1971, a more-elaborate gravesite was completed, at the request of the Kennedy family, by architect I.M. Pei (who also designed the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art). The new gravesite retains the simple, white Christian cross of the earlier site, and adds a granite plaza (like JFK's gravesite which adjoins it) and two inscriptions from Senator Kennedy's most notable addresses. 2003-08-07.