Analysis: Dinner shooting brings reminders of past era of political violence

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was amiably chatting with guests at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner when shots rang out . Amid the ensuing chaos as dinner attendees took cover, Kennedy's security detail rushed his table. One agent shielded Kennedy with his body while others hustled the secretary of health and human services out of the Washington Hilton ballroom and through a maze of service corridors to safety. File: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …