Cohen: How Robert Kennedy became Robert Kennedy

WASHINGTON – A half-century after his death, Robert Francis Kennedy is remembered as a rebel, a reformer and an idealist who became an emblem of the 1960s.
When he died of an assassin’s bullet on June 6, 1968 in Los Angeles, it ended a surging presidential campaign that had become a crusade for African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, the poor and the white working class. Kennedy was an unlikely folk hero, a tribune of the forgotten and the dispossessed.
Today it is easy to th