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baby_bear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:18 PM
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Anyone a Robert F. Kennedy buff?
I couldn't figure out where else to post this. I am trying to find out about the events in the last few days of RFK's life. I was 14 years old and remember my father taking me to see him in our hometown of Oxnard, CA in the local town plaza a few days before his assassination. I wrote to the library and they said while he did travel through the town to LA before his demise, he did not speak at the Plaza.

I am going nuts because I am so sure of my memory. Unfortunately, my father is passed.

I know there has to be some definitive diary of his last few days, but I just can't seem to find it. Maybe it's in one of the bios written about him.

If anyone has ideas, I'd sure appreciate it. It was such an important memory to me. I remember my dad handing me a hair pin as we left for the speech. I said what for? and he said, "It's a Bobby Pin."

s_m

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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:20 PM
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1. yep saw a miniseries about him on TV the other day
it was great.
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TexasProgresive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:34 PM
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2. you betcha
http://www.judeo-christian-co-op.com/ROBERT%20KENNEDY.htm

Describing the reaction of one ghetto throng in California, Tom Wicker wrote in The New York Times of June 2:

"The crowds surge in alarmingly, children leap and shriek and grown men risk the wheels of Kennedy's car just to pound his arm or grasp his hand. Moving through the sleazy back streets of Oakland, he repeatedly stopped traffic; for six blocks along East 14th Street, his car could barely creep along."
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bunk76 Donating Member (867 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:35 PM
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3. This might start..
you on the way to some answers.
http://www.who2.com/robertfkennedy.html
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:36 PM
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4. It all just makes me so sad.
I saw a special about RFK and I was in tears for our loss. I was in grammar school when he died, and remember all my teachers crying.

Now I know why...

RL
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