The lives and deaths of Julius Caesar and Robert Francis Kennedy are remarkably similar for the following reasons.
In both instances, their assassinations were predicted--Julius Caesar was warned by a soothsayer who yelled it across the steps leading to the Senate, and some of his friends heard rumours that he might be assassinated and tried to convince him not to go to the Senate. Robert Kennedy's death was forecasted by an American psychic called Jeane Dixon who wrote of it in a tabloid.
Both men were nominated for higher positions. Caesar was nominated for nine consecutive one-year terms to be dictator of the Roman Republic and Kennedy was nominated to be the president of the United States.
Both men, surrounded by old friends, felt safe and in good hands. Julius Caesar did not suspect that his fellow senators had planned to kill him and Robert Kennedy had no idea that a disgruntled Jordanian immigrant was planning to kill him.
Both men were initially attacked from behind. Julius Caesar was attacked from behind when he was getting up from his chair and Robert Kennedy was shot from behind while walking through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel.
There were a number of senators who planned Caesars assassination. They included his friend Brutus and his friend and brother-in-law Cassius.
There were a number of people who wanted Robert F. Kennedy killed. In the summer of 1962 Jimmy Hoffa outlined plans to assassinate Kennedy. There were also reported plots against Kennedy from a man named Frank Chavez who was an aide to Hoffa. This man first attempted to assassinate Kennedy during the New York senatorial campaign in 1964, but changed his mind. Chavez again threatened to assassinate Kennedy in the year 1967 if Jimmy Hoffa went to prison.
Of course both Caesar and Kennedy should never have been assassinated, but the question really is, did Julius Caesar and Robert Kennedy do something so terrible that they had to be assassinated? One is forced to speculate if the world would have changed for the better if both men had lived long enough to fulfill their goals in their careers as leaders of their nations.
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