RFK announces the death of MLK

[Tomconroy]

The video starts up about 30 seconds in.
There aren't a lot of politicians out there who can recite Aeschylus from memory.

[dawg day]

1. There's now a park right on that spot-- the Kennedy-King Park.

This was before the time of everyone knowing the news immediately. Many of the people in the crowd hadn't heard it.
His own sorrow was obvious-- this was just 4 years after his brother's murder.


And 2 months later, he himself would be killed.

[Walleye]

2. I don't think we fully appreciate the effect that the assassinations had on our generation

[Budi]

3. In a 2020 interview with Rep Joe Kennedy 3rd, he was asked if the family knew who...

..who was behind his grandfather's assassination.
He nodded his head yes, & after a pause they moved onto the next question.

He revealed no more than that, but you could feel an entire generation wishing he had just said it.

I've always believed, above all else controversial to point a finger at, the reason was racial.
It was always about race.
Still is.

[Walleye]

5. Well MLK was certainly about race. Seems like everything today even is about race

I remember a brief improvement on race relations at the beginning of the Vietnam war the draft and the music was bringing us all together. And then King was assassinated and everything went to shit after that. I still get choked up sometimes thinking about it

[George II]

8. He was Senator from New York at that time. A couple of years earlier after my mother was sworn in...

....as an American citizen, she received a hand-typed letter from his office (no "word processing" in 1966). We still have it:

[Budi]

9. What a rare treasure George ll. To have HIS sig on THAT doc is a reminder of what should have been

Bittersweet & prescious

[electric_blue68]

12. oh my ...yeah

[electric_blue68]

13. Wow, thanks for sharing that with us...

I was a bit too young to get what losing JFK meant.
But RFK - I knew, and it was - devastating.

[electric_blue68]

11. Race was probably a big part...

also turning against the Vietnam War, to do better by the poor, and even our farm workers (Caesar Chavez).

[Tomconroy]

4. A video about the legacy of the speech.

[lapfog_1]

6. Al Stewart - Post World War Two Blues

I came up to London when I was nineteen
With a corduroy jacket and a head full of dreams
In coffee bars I spent my nights
Reading Allen Ginsberg, talking civil rights
The day Robert Kennedy got shot down
The world was wearing a deeper frown
And though I knew that we'd lost a friend
I always believed we would win in the end

[peppertree]

7. An awful year for many - but a good year for some...

[Rhiannon12866]

10. He was my senator, remember being quizzed on who our senators were in school.

And I don't think that anyone else on our planet at the time could have handled this as he did. No doubt he saved many lives and kept the peace - an American hero.