Bobby Kennedy's last campaign--an homage to a leader who might have
changed history and a reconstruction of the conspiracy to stop him, in a
magisterial feat of epic investigative poetry.
June 5, 2018, is the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Robert
F. Kennedy, and there are still unanswered questions about whether his
murder was the result of a conspiracy. Broken Glory is a graphic
history told in epic verse of Bobby Kennedy's life and times leading up
to the fateful 1968 election campaign, with 100 illustrations by artist
Rick Veitch.
It encompasses the story of his convicted killer, Sirhan Sirhan, as well
as a large cast of characters that includes Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar
Hoover, Richard Nixon, and Eugene McCarthy, who was the first to
challenge the sitting president of his own party in the 1968 election,
and it recalls the major events that made 1968 a turning point in
American history: the Tet offensive and battle of Hue, followed soon
after by the My Lai massacre, the Memphis sanitation workers strike, the
assassination of Martin Luther King, and the riots that ensued.
The authors illuminate the evidence for a conspiracy, fostered perhaps
by elements of the CIA, that fielded a second shooter and made of Sirhan
Sirhan a patsy, mirroring the part played by Lee Harvey Oswald in the
assassination of John F. Kennedy, an event that haunted JFK's younger
brother until his dying day.
