Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968

We will never forget!
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What a different country this would have been had he lived.

I was thirteen and he came to our little town in Oregon a week or two before his assassination. I shook his hand.

My parents supported Gene McCarthy and were mortified.

I can't believe it's been that long.

Things would have been different, for sure.

little kitchen radio and heard the awful news.

I remember running to wake up my husband and we just sat there in shock.

What an awful day,----what an awful decade for loss.

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He brushed me off, saying that was years ago, and turned over to go back to sleep.

Typical republican.

that always makes me cry whenever I see it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4vJxi9Kis


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watching TV, Bobby speaking to the crowd. I got the worst chill up my back, told Mom that I couldn't watch, said something like "they killed his brother, they won't let him live, either" and I went upstairs to my room and went to bed. Next thing I knew, Mom was shaking me awake and shouting "How did you know?!" over and over. It was horrific, made more so by hearing about it from my very understandably freaked out mother. The sixties were vibrant and violent, a very odd time in which to come of age.

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Possibly the last time we had a chance for genuine and significant change in this country.

Possibly the last time we had a chance for genuine and significant change in this country is right.

As for nostalgia, we have Laugh-In and All in the Family.

Our best hope for genuine and significant change died on June 6, 1968.

"Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill,
With Abraham, Martin and John."

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at a summer music camp, living in a girls' dorm at Baylor.
We all gathered around a TV in the resident assistant's room.

to that. My uncle drove down from the city to sit up with us for a while. No, you don't forget that, ever.

1968 was a bad year for me.

At least, the summer was. In just those three months, one of my aunts died, my dog was killed in front of my house, a neighbor boy was killed 100 feet down the street, my best friend from school died of leukemia, I was bitten by a dog, was hit by a bottle rocket and had a firecracker blow up in my hand right by my ear. And of course, RFK was assassinated. :crazy:

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4vJxi9Kis

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Peace...

it was a horrible year for humanity- both him and MLK. FUCK.

to think a piece of crap named Sirhan Sirhan killed a man who could have made such a difference in this country is just so sad.
RIP RFK

RIP

saw Kennedy speaking then soon after I hear people screaming that he had been shot! I just couldn't believe it, prayed for him that night but by the time I went to school the next day ... he was dead. :cry:

My ex-wife and I had just flown back to Portland OR from LA that afternoon from working on the
campaign down there. We almost stayed over, and if we had we would have certainly been at the
Ambassador that horrid evening.

I swear, I still don't know -- nor can my wife (at the time) tell me -- what I did for the next
day and a half... but when I "came back" I called a press conference to announce the founding of
the Kennedy Action Corps to focus volunteer energy and resources onto issues that were important
to Bobby. It of course petered out after a year or so, but we did get lots of much-needed assistance
to the farm workers and their burgeoning union before we were done.

:fistbump:

Just as when JFK was killed, there we were again, Mom, me, my grandmother, sitting on the couch for hours staring at the television as if staring hard enough would change the story.

It's still in the courts:

Prosecutors say too late to reopen Robert Kennedy case

I won't forget.

didn't wear a baseball uniform.

What might have been.....:cry:

in 'those days' if the television was broadcasting past midnight, it was something bad. The TV was on that night.

Still miss him and what he brought to the table.

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Link if anyone is interested:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/5121/nbc-news-time-capsule-the-assassination-of-robert-f-kennedy

And even though I was only 10 years old at the time, I still remember my mom waking me up with the news. My dad was at work and my sister was only 6 at the time, so she had to tell someone and that someone was me. She explained what happened and then she called some other people she knew. And keep in mind that my parents supported Bobby Kennedy 100% and were real shook up. So was their 10 year old son.
As the OP said so eloquently, we will never forget.

I stayed up late (I live in Texas) to hear the CA primary results on TV. I remember Bobby saying, "On to Chicago," and I knew he was going to be the next President. Then people started screaming and I saw he'd been shot. It was like the country had gone mad. First, MLK and then Bobby. I was heartbroken.

For all their faults, these three men had the capacity to inspire, and possessed the resolve to do what was right and necessary in a rapidly changing world. One can only dream of the American political and cultural landscape that might exist had these lives not been cancelled so prematurely.

oops wrong thread

And yet we never hear cries of moral outrage about RFK, do we?

What has become of common sense, here?

(sorry for stepping on your thread, malaise)

My first living memory is his brother's funeral. For Detroit, this was too much. MLK in April and the riots. Then Bobby. Yeah, Woodstock came a year later. But by this time, Tricky Dick and his henchmen owned the joint. We lost that lovin' feelin'.

we lost martin
we lost bobby
and we (they) elected nixon.....one fucked year

I remember that 1968 was a very tumultuous year, both for our nation and in the world, and for me personally. I had many problems in high school, even during my senior year and right before I graduated. I was dealing with a lot of personal issues and personal unhappiness at the time, and all the turmoil I heard about in our nation and the world at the time helped to add to my anxiety.

I remember my dad waking me up on the morning of the 5th telling me that Robert Kennedy was shot, and the next morning him telling me that Kennedy had died.

It would be much later that I would come to fully appreciate the significance of what we had lost with the death of RFK, and the earlier deaths of Martin Luther King and of JFK. Even if RFK did not become president, I am sure he would have been a strong voice for social justice.

Even though there was a lot of turmoil that year there was also reason for hope. As it turned out we later ended up with Nixon that year, and then with Reagan in 1980 and for the most part the triumph of the right wing and the wealthy elite during the time since.

At the time I considered the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK to be random events by lone gunmen; now I would have a very hard time believing that that would be true of all of the assassinations.

He was born in 1925? I was ten when I worked for him. Gosh, I have gotten OLD.

A new "RFK Inspiration Park" was built next to the new public school complex on the site in LA where he was murdered.

It features quotes of him, including the ripple quote.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilshirecenter/4739414905/in/photostream/

There also are some nice quotes of his etched into stone behind his simple gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery.