The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery celebrates the life and legacy of Robert (“Bobby”) Kennedy with a portrait created by Roy Lichtenstein in 1968, commissioned for the cover of Time magazine. The portrait will be on view beginning June 6, 2018 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the senator’s assassination. The image will be on display through July 8 in the museum’s firstfloor north gallery.

Listen to historian and curator James Barber discuss the historical perspective of the portrait.

Video and still photos by Jeff Malet