Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on November 20, 1925. Kennedy was Attorney General of the United States when he was photographed by Karsh in 1962, a position he held from 1961 to 1964.
In 1968, then-42 year-old presidential candidate, Kennedy was shot dead in Los Angeles. He had just won the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election.