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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpeaking of emotional Dem conventions: RFK in 1964
Nothing in all the history of Democratic conventions will ever top the simple, terrible, heart-shattering beauty of Robert Kennedy standing before the convention in 1964, unable to speak for minute after minute after minute, because the assembly simply would not stop cheering him and his fallen brother John.
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Speaking of emotional Dem conventions: RFK in 1964 (Original Post)
WilliamPitt
Sep 2012
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RagAss
(13,832 posts)1. Thanks for this....The "Stars" speech.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)2. That is the man I worked my ass off for in OR and CA in '68
Thank you for a good cry.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)3. Up
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)4. wow, great find, thanks
RagAss
(13,832 posts)5. Also, I recall LBJ making a great acceptance speech at that same convention in 64.
MinM
(2,650 posts)6. Charles Guggenheim film commemorates RFK @ 1968 DNC
Four-time Academy Award ® Winner Charles Guggenheim
ROBERT KENNEDY REMEMBERED
TRT 29 minutes Black & White
Shown on all television networks simultaneously and at the Democratic National Convention in August of 1968, this film biography evokes the spirit, quality and commitment Robert Kennedy brought to his life and work.
ROBERT KENNEDY REMEMBERED
TRT 29 minutes Black & White
Shown on all television networks simultaneously and at the Democratic National Convention in August of 1968, this film biography evokes the spirit, quality and commitment Robert Kennedy brought to his life and work.
Accompanied by (if memory serves) this song...
"Abraham, Martin and John" is a 1968 song written by Dick Holler and first recorded by Dion. It is a tribute to the memory of four assassinated Americans, all icons of social change, namely Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. It was written in response to the assassinations of King and the younger Kennedy in April and June 1968.
Each of the first three verses features one of the men named in the song's title, for example:
Has anybody here, seen my old friend Abraham -
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people, but it seems the good, they die young
But I just looked around and he's gone.
After a bridge, the fourth and final verse mentions Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, and ends with a description of him walking over a hill with the other three men...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham,_Martin_and_John
Each of the first three verses features one of the men named in the song's title, for example:
Has anybody here, seen my old friend Abraham -
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people, but it seems the good, they die young
But I just looked around and he's gone.
After a bridge, the fourth and final verse mentions Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, and ends with a description of him walking over a hill with the other three men...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham,_Martin_and_John
1968 tribute to Senator Kennedy
Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)
MinM This message was self-deleted by its author.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)8. Awww ~ I loved Bobby so much, what a beautiful, gentle true spirit. If only... nt