Video: '1968 Presidential Election: RFK Announces He's Running'

(Saturday, March 16, 1968, 10:00 a.m. EST; during the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1968; African-American civil rights movement (1954–1968); during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Four days after President Lyndon Johnson barely edged out anti-war candidate U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York today entered the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Kennedy, a former U.S. Attorney General and the younger brother of the late President John F. Kennedy, announced his decision this morning in the Senate Caucus Room on Capitol Hill, saying the nation’s “disastrous, divisive policies” in Vietnam and at home could be changed “only by changing the men who are now making them.”

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