La figura de Robert F. Kennedy en el marco sociopolítico estadounidense. Bobby Kennedy for President

  1. José Antonio Abreu Colombri 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Alcalá
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    Universidad de Alcalá

    Alcalá de Henares, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04pmn0e78

Revista:
Revista Latente: Revista de Historia y Estética del Audiovisual

ISSN: 1697-459X

Ano de publicación: 2022

Número: 20

Páxinas: 103-111

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.25145/J.LATENTE.2022.20.04 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openRIULL editor

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Resumo

By the end of the 1950s, the Kennedys were one of the most influential families on the American political scene. The Democratic Party, in an expansive electoral phase in the 1960s, became a promoter of legislative reform in favor of minorities, which would broaden its electoral base. At the same time, said reform caused a major split between the Democrat factions more conservative. The programmatic rearrangement of the Democrats occurred in parallel to the personal evolution of Robert F. Kennedy. The joyful and gesticulating character of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, during the Kennedy-Johnson administration (1961-1965), gave way to a sad and reflective senator from the state of New York, during the first three years of the Johnson administration (1965-1968). Dawn Porter’s documentary (2018) is a magnificent example of quality historical divulgation, in a commemorative time frame, in which certain aspects of the American political landscape are rigorously exposed