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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn Memoriam -- Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY)
11/20/1925 - 6/6/1968
(55 years ago today)
...What could have been...........
RIP, Bobby--still my hero.
dmr
(28,347 posts)Oh, what could have been.
R.I.P., Senator Kennedy.
sinkingfeeling
(51,445 posts)Hekate
(90,645 posts)Gov George Wallace ran for President in the same era. Did Democrats give a rats patoot what he called us?
No.
sinkingfeeling
(51,445 posts)niyad
(113,263 posts)electric_blue68
(14,886 posts)Hekate
(90,645 posts)niyad
(113,263 posts)IronLionZion
(45,428 posts)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
(2,495 posts)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
(18,868 posts)Paladin
(28,252 posts)Such a profound loss for this country. The things RFK could have accomplished...
electric_blue68
(14,886 posts)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
(28,252 posts)electric_blue68
(14,886 posts)when remembered will always bring pain. 😔
ChazInAz
(2,565 posts)Gods, that was a horrible Summer!
Cherokee100
(266 posts)Could there be a connection, to RFK, JFK and MLK deaths? It seems, they were all assassinated by a lone gunman. Just wondering.
wnylib
(21,432 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 6, 2023, 07:56 PM - Edit history (1)
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
(23,214 posts)Why in the name of God haven't we LEARNED??
electric_blue68
(14,886 posts)Just putting it out there.
former9thward
(31,981 posts)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
(8,038 posts).................That was a horrible day....
electric_blue68
(14,886 posts)Martin68
(22,791 posts)electric_blue68
(14,886 posts)Grumpy Old Guy
(3,158 posts)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
(14,886 posts)That photo - searing!
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,158 posts)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
(14,886 posts)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
(3,158 posts)He tried to get it back, but no luck.
Sadly, my friend passed away a few years ago.
wendyb-NC
(3,322 posts)That was a shocking, and very sad day. I agree, "...What could have been........"
joshdawg
(2,647 posts)no republican will ever be heard making a similar statement. They only promote hate and division. They don't know anything else.
lastlib
(23,214 posts)GOPhers only thrive on fear, division and hatred. They pander to the lowest common denominator--Nazis, Klansmen, MAGAts, religious freaks, etc.
calimary
(81,220 posts)It was hard not to take it personally. I started waking up.
stage left
(2,961 posts)I was stunned. My hero as well.
nuxvomica
(12,422 posts)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
(14,417 posts)pazzyanne
(6,549 posts)oasis
(49,376 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)McKim
(2,412 posts)That was the day my dreams for this country died. Its 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
(9,965 posts)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
(14,886 posts)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
(14,886 posts)Primary which was After California. 😭
milestogo
(16,829 posts)electric_blue68
(14,886 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)R-I-P RFK