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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
Robert Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
Lawyer
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Brookline
Massachusetts
Bobby Kennedy
RFK
Robert Francis Bobby Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy
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