Just a quick reminder that Junior's mother,

[MadameButterfly]

30. i can't imagine one minute being a shoe-in for president

following the popularity of his brother--truly life n Camelot. Both the personal and public meaning of this moment is hard to even fathom.
And having it destroyed so completely and brutally in one instant.

It would mess up most people. Wife and son. RFKJr. was already difficult but I think he would have pulled through had his father lived. Ethel would have been a great first lady and mom. Our nation never recovered from the tragedy. I was nine, and I haven't recovered. No wonder that the family at the center of it didn't. Especially the son who had problems and already didn't measure up to the expectations of a Kennedy. He needed his dad to get him through.