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"On the Mindless Menace of Violence" is a speech given by United States Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. He delivered it in front of the City Club of Cleveland at the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Below is a limited selection of speeches given by Robert F. Kennedy, sorted chronologically. For more information please contact Kennedy.Library@nara.gov. Have a research question? Ask an Archivist. Tribute to John F. Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 27, 1964. Learn More.
On April 4, 1968, United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York delivered an improvised speech several hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy, who was campaigning to earn the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, made his remarks while in Indianapolis, Indiana, after speaking at two Indiana ...
Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy offers a candid account of a turbulent era, drawn from previously unpublished conversations with famous figures of the day, including Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Edward Guthman, and Anthony Lewis.
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wanted Robert F. Kennedy to cancel an open-air campaign rally in a Black neighborhood after a then-unknown assailant shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on a motel balcony in Memphis.
Robert F. Kennedy. University of Kansas. March 18, 1968. Thank you very much. Chancellor, Governor and Mrs. Docking, Senator and Mrs. Pierson, ladies and gentlemen and my friends, I'm very pleased to be here. I'm really not here to make a speech I've come because I came from Kansas State and they want to send their love to all of you.
Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address (also known as the "Ripple of Hope" Speech) is a speech given to National Union of South African Students members at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on June 6, 1966, on the University's "Day of Reaffirmation of Academic and Human Freedom".
