Career
Dowd was the retired vice president of public affairs for Coca Cola in Boston. In 1968 Donald Dowd worked on the Presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, and was on the campaign trail with Kennedy, when Kennedy was shot dead at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 6, 1968. Dowd previously worked in President Kennedy"s administration, in the Post Office Department.
Dowd died on January 24, 2010, at the age of 87.
