Rhetorical Analysis Of Robert F. Kennedy's Speech

As a result of having been brought up in a british education system outside of the USA I was still unfamiliar with american history when I first moved to New York. I had never learnt about the civil rights movement and was unaware of the work of Martin Luther King. Without much knowledge about the work of Martin Luther King Jr, the gasps of the crowd when Robert. F. Kennedy's addresses his death is powerful enough to convey the importance of Dr. King as a figure to the public. In his speech, Robert F. Kennedy uses his platform as a presidential candidate to address people in an attempt to utilise the death of MLK Jr. as a way to unite blacks and whites in a time when it seemed they were further apart than ever. Not only does Robert F. Kennedy