RFK Jr. Reflects on Father on 56th Anniversary of Assassination

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We also asked RFK Jr. about today's 56th anniversary of his dad's assassination ... and how he feels his values line up with those of his late father and his uncle President John F. Kennedy.

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00:00Today is the anniversary of your father's assassination, Robert F. Kennedy, and I've

00:10been thinking about that a lot, and I'm wondering, looking back, how you think your views align

00:19or don't align with your dad's?

00:22My view is that my issues that I believe in and the issues that I'm arguing about on this

00:29campaign against the war, about rebuilding the middle class, about protecting the Constitution

00:35and the First Amendment, about trying to achieve the American dream for every American, all

00:40of the issues that I feel strongly about are issues that my father also felt strongly about.

00:46I think my campaign is, in many ways, identical to his, if you just went down the issues and

00:53checked the boxes.

00:55The same is true of President Kennedy, my uncle, but there may be people who disagree

01:00with me about that.

01:04What Secretary Seward said when President Lincoln died, he said he belongs to the ages

01:12now.

01:13So I know people have different opinions about what my father and my uncle would have stood

01:18for, but I've spent a lifetime studying their records and understanding them because

01:25it's part of my own understanding of myself, and I'm very comfortable with their values.

01:32I feel a great admiration for both of them for what they tried to do for our country,

01:38and I feel like my life has been devoted to achieving those same objectives.

01:46I have the same vision for America as they did.

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