Broken Glory : The Final Years of Robert F. Kennedy

Bobby Kennedy’s final marketing campaign an homage to a pacesetter who may need modified historical past and a reconstruction of the conspiracy to cease him, in a magisterial feat of epic investigative poetry.

June 5, 2018, is the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and there are nonetheless unanswered questions on whether or not his homicide was the results of a conspiracy. Damaged Glory is a graphic historical past informed in epic verse of Bobby Kennedy’s life and occasions main as much as the fateful 1968 election marketing campaign, with 100 illustrations by artist Rick Veitch.
It encompasses the story of his convicted killer, Sirhan Sirhan, in addition to a big forged of characters that features Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, and Eugene McCarthy, who was the primary to problem the sitting president of his personal get together within the 1968 election, and it remembers the foremost occasions that made 1968 a turning level in American historical past: the Tet offensive and battle of Hue, adopted quickly after by the My Lai bloodbath, the Memphis sanitation employees strike, the assassination of Martin Luther King, and the riots that ensued.
The authors illuminate the proof for a conspiracy, fostered maybe by parts of the CIA, that fielded a second shooter and fabricated from Sirhan Sirhan a patsy, mirroring the half performed by Lee Harvey Oswald within the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an occasion that haunted JFK’s youthful brother till his dying day.