FBI files reveal Ted Kennedy death threats, plots
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The FBI released more than 2,200 pages from its archives about Kennedy, who died at age 77 in August 2009 of brain cancer, most of which revealed details of threats and extortion schemes against the Massachusetts senator.
Kennedy spent 47 years as one of the liberal champions of the U.S. Senate, focusing on health care and civil rights, carrying on the political legacy of his slain brothers.
While some of the threats against him appeared to be nonpolitical, they also originated from members of radical groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, “Minutemen” organizations and the National Socialist White People’s Party.
The senator wrote in his memoir about his fears of being killed in the wake of the assassinations of his brothers President John F. Kennedy Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy Jr. in 1963 and 1968 respectively.
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