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TIL The first time Bobby Kennedy spoke publicly about his brother, President John F. Kennedy's, assassination was while telling a majority-black crowd in Indianapolis that Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed, which is credited with keeping the city calm, while other cities erupted in violence.

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