--Born November 20, 1925 in Brookline, MA.

--Graduates from Milton Academy in 1944.

--Enrolls at Harvard University in 1944, where he is accepted into the Navy's Officer Training Program.

--Serves aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy in 1946.

--Graduates from Harvard in 1948.

--Covers the 1948 Arab-Israeli War for the Boston Post.

--Accepted into University of Virginia Law School, 1948, and graduates in 1951.

--Marries Ethel Skakel in 1950. Their first child, Kathleen, is born in 1951. The Kennedy's have ten more children after Kathleen, the youngest of whom (Rory), was born several months after her father's death in 1968.

--Works as attorney in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, 1951-52.

--Manages his brother John's successful bid for the U.S. Senate in 1952.

--Serves as Assistant Counsel on the McCarthy Committee from 1952 through 1953, and then as Chief Counsel for the Minority on the committee, 1954-1957.

--Serves alongside his brother as Chief Counsel on the Senate Committee investigating corruption in certain labor unions, 1957-59.

--Manages his brother's successful run for president, 1959-1960.

--Serves as Attorney General of the United States from 1961-1964.

--President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, TX on November 22, 1963.

--Elected to represent New York in the U.S. Senate in 1964.

--On March 16, 1968 announces bid for Democratic nomination for the presidency.

--On March 31, 1968, RFK's bitter political rival, President Lyndon Johnson, announces that he will not seek another term as president.

--Martin Luther King is assassinated by James Early Ray in Memphis, TN on April 4, 1968. Informed of the shooting just minutes before he is scheduled to speak in a ghetto section of Indianapolis, Kennedy is advised by police not to enter the neighborhood. When RFK chooses to go ahead, the police refuse to accompany him. Kennedy informs the stunned crowd of King's murder, and then delivers an extemporaneous eulogy to the slain civil rights leader. "Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago," says Kennedy, "to tame the savageness of men, and to make gentle the life of the world." That night, while violence erupts and fires burn in virtually every other American city, Indianapolis remains quiet.

--In May 1968, RFK scores impressive victories in Indiana and Nebraska, only to suffer a stunning setback in Oregon at the hands of Eugene McCarthy at the end of May. RFK announces that he will drop out of the race if he fails to win the June 4 primary in California.

--Wins decisively in California and South Dakota on June 4, 1968. Just after midnight, June 5, 1968, RFK makes his victory speech in the Embassy Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

--At 12:15 am, June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy is shot while walking through the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel by Sirhan Sirhan. In addtion to Kennedy, five other persons are also wounded. Kennedy is taken first to Central Receiving Hospital, where doctors manage to revive him. From there, he is sent to Good Samaritan Hospital, where a team of surgeons operate in an attempt to remove a bullet that has lodged in Kennedy's brain. 

--At 1:44 am, June 6, 1968, Robert Francis Kennedy dies at the age of 42.

--On June 8, 1968, after tens of thousands of mourners file past his casket, a funeral mass for Robert Kennedy is held at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral. The mass is highlighted by an emotional eulogy delivered by his shattered brother, Senator Edward Kennedy.

--After the funeral mass in New York, Robert Kennedy's body is taken by train to its final resting place in Washington, D.C. An estimated one million people line the tracks between New York and Washington in silent tribute. Upon arrival in Washington, the body is taken by funeral procession to Arlington National Cemetery, where after a brief nightime ceremony, Bobby is laid to rest.