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In the grand auditorium of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a venue etched with the memory of another assassinated leader, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. approached the podium on a humid September evening for the prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist gunned down just days earlier on a Utah college campus.
Hundreds had queued quietly outside, bullhorns of protesters faintly audible in the distance, as a capacity crowd filled the seats. Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, had been felled by a single shot to the neck during a speaking tour stop at Utah Valley University—a targeted attack that authorities quickly deemed ideologically motivated.
Before RFK Jr. could even began speaking, the crowd erupted in chants of "USA," a raw outpouring of grief and resolve.
When he began, his voice steady but laced with the weight of familial ghosts, he could have just as easily been speaking about his father or his uncle.
"There are millions and millions of kids around the country who he inspired who now want to live like Charlie Kirk. And that's a great thing for our country … I want to start by telling you a story about my 17-year-old niece, Zoe. She's getting ready to go to college in Europe. And her mother asked her what she was packing, and she said, "I'm packing my Bible." And her mom said, "Why are you doing that?" And she said, "I want to live like Charlie Kirk."
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The vigil itself was attended by over 85 members of Congress, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and House Speaker Mike Johnson. Organized by Turning Point USA alumni, it blended worship services with heartfelt tributes, underscoring Kirk's devout Christian faith and his role in mobilizing young conservatives. Leavitt recalled Kirk's support for her 2022 congressional bid, crediting him with dismantling the Republican establishment. Gabbard praised his commitment to defeating bad ideas with better ones, a nod to free speech as the evening's recurring theme.
But it was RFK Jr., the Health and Human Services Secretary and a former Democrat turned Trump ally, with his personal experience of loss of family to assassin’s bullets and tragedy that gave listeners chills.
“After my brother David died in 1984, I asked my mom—I said, "Does the hole that they leave in you when they die, does it ever get any smaller?" And she said, "No. It never gets any smaller, but our job is to build ourselves bigger around the hole." We do that by taking the best virtues and character traits of the person that we lost and using discipline and restraint and practice integrating those character traits into our own character. And in doing that, we make ourselves larger, and the hole gets proportionally smaller. And we also give the person a kind of immortality because the best parts of them are now living on in us.”
His presence at the Kennedy Center—a building honoring his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1963—added layers of poignant irony to an already emotionally charged moment. Here was a man whose father, Robert F. Kennedy, was slain in 1968 amid his presidential campaign, delivering words on yet another political killing. In this moment, in this place, RFK Jr’s words were what a nation and a movement in mourning needed to hear.
RFK Jr.'s speech wove personal anecdotes with broader reflection, humanizing the tragedy while confronting its historical echoes. He described meeting Kirk on his podcast (in what he mistakenly said 2001—likely a slip for 2021, as Kirk was only 7 in 2001 and his show began in 2020 a fact which drew pathetic online mockery [ [link removed] ] from outlets like The New Republic.)
RFK Jr. portrayed Kirk as a "relentless and courageous crusader for free speech," the "primary architect" of his own political unification with President Trump, and whose death inspired his 17-year-old niece to pack a Bible for college abroad, vowing to "live like Charlie Kirk."
He recounted a pivotal exchange where Kirk asked if he feared death;
“I had a conversation once with Charlie where we were talking about the danger that we both faced from challenging entrenched interests. And he asked me if I was scared to die. I said to him, "There's a lot worse things than dying." Chief among them is losing our constitutional rights and having our children raised in slavery. And I said to him at that time, "Sometimes our only consolation is that we can die with our boots on. We can die fighting for these things … Charlie gave his life so that the rest of us would not have to suffer those fates worse than death."
The words hung heavy, forever linking Kirk's demise to the lineage of silenced truth-tellers in American history, a bridge between Kirk's youthful fervor and the Kennedys' storied legacy of loss. The parallels he drew to his family's tragedies—JFK, RFK Sr., reminding the audience that bullets have long targeted those who challenge power. "Once again, a bullet has silenced the most eloquent truth-teller of an era," he had posted earlier, a sentiment that echoed through the vigil.
The vigil's raw emotion contrasted sharply with the media's divided response, highlighting a cultural chasm in comprehending such violence. Progressive outlets like The New Republic fixated on RFK Jr.'s date slip, framing it as emblematic of conservative delusion, while ignoring the speech's substantive gravity. This tone-deafness, missed the sea change moment that had occurred in America: Kirk was no mere podcaster but a kingmaker who influenced millions, including RFK Jr.'s endorsement of Trump which may have swayed independent voters.
If you speak to any older Americans they can always tell you “where they were when they heard that JFK had been shot.” One suspects for countless young Americans today, Kirk’s death will be that for them. A myriad of lives have been affected and a myriad more have taken a new direction because of what transpired on that ordinary afternoon on September 10th.
RFK Jr.'s address, delivered under the Kennedy Center's hallowed arches, should act as a North Star amid the turmoil that the nation will have to endure, it will teach us how to fight on bravely, how to cope with the grief that we have been left with and how to confront political violence not with vengeance but with renewed commitment to dialogue and rights.
America has lost some of its best to political violence. RFK Jr more than anyone can teach us how we move forward together afterwards.

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