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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.
In His Own Words (Featuring Speeches Given by Robert F. Kennedy) by Robert F. Kennedy released in 1995. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and mor.
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 universities ...
“Do they know about Martin Luther King?” he said once aboard the truck. Kennedy spoke for about five minutes that night. He touched on feelings of anguish, the desire for revenge, learning through suffering, and what the country needed now--all from the heart.
This essay analyzes Kennedy’s speeches as examples of prophetic rhetoric that accused the nation of sins and offered wisdom and justice as the path to redemption. Keywords: Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Indianapolis, Cleveland, 1968 presidential election, prophetic rhetoric, ultimate terms, exhortation.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, as more than a hundred cities erupted in violence following the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) stood before a mostly African-American audience in Indianapolis and made a moving personal appeal for calm.
