Netflix Trailer: ‘Bobby Kennedy for President’ Revisits the Legacy, 50 Years Later

Those seeking a new take on the Kennedy dynasty and who don’t want to visit theaters for “Chappaquiddick” will soon have another option on Netflix.

Director and executive producer Dawn Porter will bring her four-part docuseries “Bobby Kennedy For President” to the streaming service later this month, following its April 25 Tribeca Film Festival debut.

The collaboration was announced March 16, exactly 50 years after Robert F.

Kennedy launched his presidential bid.His campaign lasted just 83 days: the 42-year-old New York senator, former U.S.

Attorney General, and father of 11 was assassinated at a Los Angeles hotel immediately after declaring victory in the California presidential primary.

Kennedy’s death came just two months after the slaying of Martin Luther King, Jr., and less than five years after his older brother, President John F.

Kennedy, was murdered.

Robert Kennedy’s demise comes early in the manic-paced Netflix trailer, which ends on a hopeful

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