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Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.
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Jack Newfield
Age: 66 †
Born: 1938
Born: February 18
Died: 2004
Died: December 20
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New York City
New York
Jack Abraham Newfield
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