FILE - U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., speaks to campaign workers, June 5, 1968, as his wife, Ethel, left, and California campaign manager and speaker of the California Assembly, Jesse Unruh, look on, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. After making a short speech, Kennedy was shot in an adjacent room. Starting in 1968, after the assassination of Robert Kennedy, Ted Kennedy was the family's standard bearer and chosen orator. But no one has succeeded him since his death in 2009. (AP Photo, File) FILE PHOTO
