“Lawmakers Remember RFK For 50th Anniversary of Presidential Bid”, Congressional Quarterly Roll Call

Reported by Alex Ganagitano, Washington, D.C., March 15, 2018

Massachusetts Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III hosted an event Wednesday commemorating the anniversary this week of his grandfather’s presidential bid announcement. On March 16, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy stood in the Russell Senate Office Building room (now known as the Kennedy Caucus Room) to declare his candidacy; he was assassinated several months later while he was a leading candidate for the nomination.

(The event, on March 14, occurred as thousands of students protested on the Washington mall and throughout the nation on gun control and related issues. Rep. Kennedy is joined in video linked below by Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., Rep. Bradley Byrne, R-Alabama, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia.)

See video report here: Roll Call