![]() ![]() These contradictory actions portray what author Larry Tye calls “the dueling aspects of Bobby’s political soul.” It is what drove the award-winning Boston Globe reporter to interview more than 400 sources (including Ethel Kennedy) and review 58 boxes of Kennedy’s personal papers that had been locked away for four decades. And while he was facing off with segregationist governors, he directed Operation Mongoose, an illegal clandestine effort to overthrow the government of Cuba. Yet in October 1963, just two months after the March on Washington, that same attorney general authorized phone taps on Martin Luther King Jr.’s home and offices in Atlanta and New York. ![]() marshals and other law enforcement agents - and engaged in backroom wheeling and dealing with Alabama officials - to avert further bloodshed. When white mobs armed with chains and baseball bats attacked the Freedom Riders, Kennedy mobilized a force of 400 U.S. ![]()
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