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Remembering Bobby Kennedy
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Greetings!
The assassination of Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, has never
attracted the same level of public fascination and passion as
the 1963 assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy.
But, the passing of Bobby, as many affectionately called him,
may have impacted our country in a more significant manner.
Robert Kennedy was unique in American politics; he reached out
to the poor and disenfranchised, he reached out to working class
whites, he reached out to inner city blacks, he reached out to
the migrant worker - the very classes of people most politicians
of that time ignored. He came from a place of privilege and money,
yet passionately spoke for the victimized and the oppressed. Robert
Kennedy embodied an attitude and idealism that is rare for any
generation. By leading with an inspiring call to action he asked
the American people of that time to support racial and educational
equality, to accept environmental responsibility and to negotiate
for peace in a war ravaged world. RFK asked Americans to believe
that as individuals they could make a difference in the world.
Bobby understood that America's real greatness came from empowering
its citizens through equal opportunities to secure a better
life, but Robert Kennedy's vision for a better tomorrow was not
limited to the United States. He went to Poland and Latin America
to tell them that their dream of freedom was obtainable, and when
South Africans suffered the tyranny of apartheid, RFK was there
to say:
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or
acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against
injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing
each other from a million different centers of energy and
daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down
the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. -
RFK www.bobby-kennedy.comwww.bobby-kennedy.com catalog
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Bless Robert F. Kennedy and the Kennedy Family - June 5, 1968
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by Dems2004
Daily Kos
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I was almost 12 years old that day. Like his
brother before him, Robert F. Kennedy was to be the savior of a
generation. It was not to be. I still get a lump in my throat when I
think of that year. I tear up when I listen to Teddy talk about his
brother.
Earlier in the year, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in
Memphis, and my Dad told me it was the beginning of a lot of trouble.
Of course, my Dad was right.
The video link below is a compilation of photos set to music, with Teddy Kennedy's eulogy as the spoken accompaniment. Listen and absorb the photos and words of the eloquent eulogy by Teddy Kennedy. There is a lot to listen to and think about.
Thank you. Robert Kennedy Funeral Eulogy
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May you live in interesting times...
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This old Chinese proverb is
said to be a curse. I suppose that may be true, but we only live in
the times in which we live. History will have to be the judge long
after we're gone about whether or not that was a curse.
According to Wikipedia, Robert F. Kennedy was one of the first from the United States to use this proverb at his Day of Affirmation Address
to students at the University of Capetown in June 1966. The main
message of this speech can perhaps be found in these words of his:
NLinStPaul's diary
So the road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost
and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and
nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand--though
all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and
struggle is greater hope for the future, as (wo)men learn to claim and
achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.
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Memories of RFK: Watching train near Chester station has had lasting impact on three women.
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By PATTI MENGERS Delaware County Daily Times - Primos,PA
Kim
Wright-Jones was 7 years old when she stood holding the hand of her
mother, Rosalind Wright, on June 8, 1968, waiting for Robert F.
Kennedy's funeral train to roll through the Chester train station at
Sixth and Welsh streets. "What I can see as I speak to you now
is the flag-draped coffin as it passed through. It brings a chill,"
said Wright-Jones, 41 years later.
For more than three hours on June 8, 1968, Malone, her mother and
Cassell waited on the southbound platform at the Chester train station,
to see the rail car carrying Kennedy's coffin pass by. "I was
there because I so wanted to vote for him for president. He embodied
everything that this country needed at the time. I felt it was my duty
to be there and honor him," said Malone.
She remembers that
Kennedy's sister, Patricia, stood at the rear of the train,
acknowledging all who had waited many hours to pay their respects to
her brother. "I have never regretted the long wait for the train to pass through," said Malone. Read on
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41 Years Ago The Robert Kennedy Assassination
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Mary Ferrell Foundation
Forty-one years ago, bullets put an end to Robert Kennedy's quest
to reclaim the presidency that had been lost when his own brother was
gunned down in Dallas. RFK had just declared victory in the California
Democratic primary, which boosted his bid to unseat Lyndon Johnson's VP
and hand-picked successor, Hubert Humphrey.
Over the past year, the MFF has continued to add documents, essays, books, and photographs to its RFK archive.
Our massive RFK Document Archive includes such collections as:
·Special Unit Senator LAPD Collection
·FBI Los Angeles Field Office Files
·Trial of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
·Appeal of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
·Available for online reading is the Epilogue and Appendixes from the new edition of Robert Blair Kaiser's RFK Must Die.
·And in the MFF-exclusive essay series Incomplete Justice, Larry Hancock, author of the highly-regarded book Someone Would Have Talked,
explores the unanswered questions of the crime and provides a valuable
introduction to the evidence and complexities of this history changing
tragedy.
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Sincerely,
Debra Conway
JFK Lancer Productions & Publications
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"Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great
intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who
seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change."
- Robert F. Kennedy, in a speech in Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966.hosted on your website
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