In Memoriam -- Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY)

[lastlib]

11/20/1925 - 6/6/1968

(55 years ago today)



...What could have been...........

RIP, Bobby--still my hero.

[dmr]

1. My hero, as well.

Oh, what could have been.

R.I.P., Senator Kennedy.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Mine as well. But, today, he'd be banned as "woke".

[Hekate]

40. Only by the MAGAs -- Democrats don't use the word "woke." Jeez.

Gov George Wallace ran for President in the same era. Did Democrats give a rat’s patoot what he called us?

No.

[sinkingfeeling]

41. ?? Of course by Republicans.

[niyad]

3. The world changed that day.

[electric_blue68]

27. A Political-Social Earthquake! :''''''''(

[Hekate]

42. I felt like it was the end of my idealistic youth. I was turning 21 in September...

[niyad]

45. I had just turned 18, and felt very much the same.

[IronLionZion]

4. RIP

The apple does fall far from the tree in this case. His idiot son was recently allowed back on social media since he's running for president. He was banned before for promoting misinformation on vaccines.

[hueymahl]

11. Free speech is a good thing. Bans are not

And before all the pseudo lawyers point out these are private institutions who are making these decisions, that is not the argument. Censorship, legal or not, is detrimental to a free society

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. That was just an awful day. nt

[Paladin]

6. A high school friend called me at 5:00 AM with the news.

Such a profound loss for this country. The things RFK could have accomplished...

[electric_blue68]

28. Woah! That must have been awful! ...

In NYC I took my dad's little transistor radio to bed w me so I could first thing in the morning when I woke for HS I could hear the results!

But, instead...
I woke up after 4am with the strangest stomach I ever had! Since I was up for the moment I figured I might as well see if the results were in. But the shooting had happened not long before! Was up the rest of the night.

Same thing happened the next night.... after 4am, strange stomach ache, flipped on radio and was just announcing his passing. No more sleep then, either.

[Paladin]

36. An awful time for all of us. And it never goes away. (nt)

[electric_blue68]

37. Yeah, the Memories, the potential Possibilities Gone...

when remembered will always bring pain. 😔

[ChazInAz]

7. That Summer...

Gods, that was a horrible Summer!

[Cherokee100]

8. Just wondering

Could there be a connection, to RFK, JFK and MLK deaths? It seems, they were all assassinated by a lone gunman. Just wondering.

[wnylib]

20. I've often thought that there might be a connection, but

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that's generally considered conspiracy theory. It still seems to me like quite a coincidence that 3 liberal leaders were all assassinated within 5 years, two of them within a couple months of each other.

Apparently even Jackie Kennedy felt concerned by the coincidences. I remember reading that, shortly after Bobby's murder, Jackie said that if it was open season on Kennedys, she needed to protect her children. Then she went to Europe with them.

It was a time of great suspicion of government, but with good reason. J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI and had files on both Kennedys as well as on MLK. He threatened MLK and spoke of him as a "communist threat to America." He used his information gathering on the Kennedys to blackmail them.

There was also the FBI's COINTELPRO illegal interference in politics, civil rights, and people's exercise of their rights. Wikipedia does a better job of describing it than I could.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#:~:text=Overall%2C%20COINTELPRO%20encompassed%20disruption%20and,and%20religious%20groups%20(1968).

So for some of us, the possibility of a connection between those deaths does not seem that far fetched. But there is no proof of it.

[lastlib]

24. No. Lone nuts. With Guns.

Why in the name of God haven't we LEARNED??

[electric_blue68]

29. Do you know there were More Bulletholes in the Ambassador Hotel's pantry Walls Than in Sirhan's Gun.

Just putting it out there.

[former9thward]

46. There are no end of unanswered questions in all three killings.

And substantial evidence of conspiracy in all three. But many people are comfortable with the "lone nut" theory and the powers that controlled the investigations took advantage of that.

[Upthevibe]

9. ...................

.................That was a horrible day....

[electric_blue68]

30. Those 4 days! June 5, 6, 7, 8! :''''''''(

[Martin68]

10. He would have made an excellent president. His assassination changed history.

[electric_blue68]

31. A Political-Social Earthquake! Horrific.

[Ohio Joe]

12. .

[Grumpy Old Guy]

13. A friend of mine was there.

He said the secret service took the 35mm film out of his camera. He never got it back.

A few years ago I briefly met Boris Yaro, the L.A. Times photographer who won the Pulitzer Prize for his photo that day.

[electric_blue68]

32. Omg! How unbelievably horrible to be there. And never got his film back?! Geeeebz.

That photo - searing!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

39. He wasn't an official photographer.

He was just a young man with a camera. He might have had better luck if he had been working for a news agency.

[electric_blue68]

43. Yeah, maybe. I mean, though, after they looked it over why wouldn't they give it back ...

rhetorical, really.
Did he want it back? Maybe he didn't want it back.


I imagine in some way not wanting it back. Kind of yikes!
Water way long pass the bridge.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

47. Oh no! He definitely wanted it back..

He tried to get it back, but no luck.

Sadly, my friend passed away a few years ago.

[wendyb-NC]

14. R.I.P.

That was a shocking, and very sad day. I agree, "...What could have been........"

[joshdawg]

15. What is really sad is that

no republican will ever be heard making a similar statement. They only promote hate and division. They don't know anything else.

[lastlib]

25. You are dead on!

GOPhers only thrive on fear, division and hatred. They pander to the lowest common denominator--Nazis, Klansmen, MAGAts, religious freaks, etc.

[calimary]

16. That was a very sad day.

It was hard not to take it personally. I started waking up.

[stage left]

17. Such a good man

I was stunned. My hero as well.

[nuxvomica]

18. I canvassed for his senate campaign

I remember handing out 45s with the Kingston Trio singing:

Robert Kennedy
Wait till November three
That's gonna be a great day!

When my family visited Washington, I got to shake his hand and I recall it was the hairiest hand I ever saw. He spent more time talking with my younger brother, who is developmentally disabled, and gave him a PT109 tie clip.

[Joinfortmill]

22. Love this

[pazzyanne]

19. Oh what could have been Bobby and John F had not been assassinated! NT

[oasis]

33. +1,000,000

[Joinfortmill]

21. Loved this dude. Jr. should take a lesson from him.

[McKim]

23. The Day My Dreams Died!

That was the day my dreams for this country died. It’s been all downhill since The Right Wing and the MIC took over this country. Billions to kill overseas as our streets are full of homeless.

[Jilly_in_VA]

26. I felt like the whole trajectory of the country changed

We got Nixon (by a tiny margin, which he cheated to get), then Ford, then a brief reprieve with Carter, then Reagan, and it's been mostly downhill ever since.

[electric_blue68]

34. My mom a staunch Liberal who must have listened to some of the McCarthy Hearings, and heard RFK...

there on the Committee; when she heard him from news reports on his Presidential Campaign said, "He's changed!"
.

Yeah, a hero of mine, too.

[electric_blue68]

35. I was devastated. I was going to start volunteering for his Campaign once he got to the NYS ...

Primary which was After California. 😭

[milestogo]

38. From Kerry Kennedy

Link to tweet

[electric_blue68]

44. Ty 😔

[Raine]

48. Such a sad day 🕯️ If only ... it all could've been so different. 😪 nt

R-I-P RFK