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Pete Hamill's letter to RFK

In the early days of 1968 Robert F. Kennedy announced he would not run for the Democratic nomination for president, inspiring writer Pete Hamill to pen a letter pleading with the New York Senator to reconsider: "You should run because if you won, the country might be saved … I don't think we can afford five summers of blood." In this web exclusive, Hamill reads his letter to correspondent Jim Axelrod, and also recalls witnessing the assassination of RFK a few months later.

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Michael Skakel walked out of court a free man after being released on $1.2 million bail. The nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow, Skakel was convicted in the 1975 murder of neighbor Martha Moxley

Michael Skakel walked out of court a free man after being released on $1.2 million bail. The nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow, Skakel was convicted in the 1975 murder of neighbor Martha Moxley, but a judge threw out the conviction and granted him a new trial. Troy Roberts reports.

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