Rhetorical Analysis Of Robert F. Kennedy's Speech

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On April 4th, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. As a leader in the civil rights movement MLK was an extremely important figure in the black community. During the 1960’s news did not get around as fast as it does today and on the night of April 4th, 1968 the news of MLK’s death had not yet reached a black community in a ghetto of Indianapolis, Indiana. Robert F. Kennedy made it his job to tell the people in this community directly that someone whom they admired so much had been assassinated. Kennedy was in the middle of his presidential campaign at the time and was currently holding office as a New York senator and many people had differing views on him. But here, in a ghetto in Indianapolis, Indiana, RFK related to these people, on the back of a truck, to tell them that this man of such great importance had died, and tried to reach out to them to not seek revenge. With his ability to establish empathy and his presentation of ideas in anthitetical terms Kennedy delivered an very somber, but powerful and hopeful speech that night. Kennedy has a natural aptitude to establish empathy in different point throughout his speech. This is so important because it makes the people he was talking to feel like he gets it, he understands, and by doing this they are more likely to listen to him. Just a few years beforehand Kennedy’s older brother, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. …show more content…
Robert F. Kennedy made it his job to make sure that we still try and work to make peace and equality a reality. By addressing the black community the way he did he encouraged them to not react with violence but to promote peace and keep working on the fight for equality. Using multiple rhetorical devices RFK’s speech had a long-lasting effect on all of the United States in a time of tragedy and
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