Robert Kennedy
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A shortcut to immortality: kill the president
- Stage
- April 7, 2018, 05:00
“When I leave the stage I’ll be the most famous man in America,” John Wilkes Booth, one of the lesser lights in a 19th-century acting family, is alleg(...)

Robert Kennedy spent the afternoon of April 4th, 1968, travelling to Indianapolis for a rally in support of his bid to win the Democratic Party nomina(...)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: How Ireland can take a stand in the Trump era
- People
- November 6, 2017
It’s almost a year since the world felt a little colder, a little less caring and a little less recognisable. For some the election of Donald Trump as(...)

Breda O’Brien: When ‘fatal’ foetal abnormalities are not so fatal
- Opinion
- September 23, 2017, 05:00
Dr Marty McCaffrey is clinical professor in neonatal-perinatal medicine at UNC Chapel Hill, a state-owned hospital in North Carolina. He had an epipha(...)

History of segregation still evident in Mississippi region
- US
- August 10, 2017, 01:00
In the fifth part of her series “Coast to Coast: Travels in Trump’s America”, Washington Correspondent Suzanne Lynch travels to Oxford and Cleveland. (...)

British politicians remain out-of-sync with public mood
- UK
- May 30, 2017, 01:00
When he ran to be US president in 1968, Robert Kennedy questioned whether gross national product could measure American greatness while it counted nap(...)

Let us first clarify what Loving is not. Following its premiere at Cannes, Jeff Nichols’s singular treatment of the case that helped dismantle the US(...)

Dress worn by Marilyn Monroe to serenade JFK goes on display
- Fashion
- October 27, 2016, 14:10
The dress Marilyn Monroe wore in May 1962 when she sang a breathy Happy Birthday to president John F Kennedy at a Democratic fundraiser in New York i(...)

Caterpillar could close one of its three plants in the North
- Manufacturing
- September 1, 2016, 19:08
Restructuring plans by US group Caterpillar could result in the closure of at least one of its three plants in Northern Ireland and the potential los(...)

Hillary Clinton: A man you can bait with a tweet cannot be trusted with a nuclear weapon
- US
- July 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton warned that the United States was at a “moment of reckoning” as she made history becoming the first female to accept the presidential (...)