Jingle Bells RFK 1964 (1977)

Surrounded by his children his wife Ethel and Sammy Davis Jr RFK visits schoolchildren around the city and is every bit the good patriarch and dutiful public servant But its the films fleeting inbetween moments where Pennebaker most precisely hits the mark offering reflection on the possibilities that Robert Kennedys all too brief life foreclosed Set against the pageantry of a long ago Christmas the film speaks to tragic contingencies of history lying far beyond the ken of politics that continue to circumscribe the tortured destiny of our country