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Music Appreciation

LessAspin

(1,152 posts) Sat Jun 4, 2022, 03:32 PM Jun 2022

Mr Tambourine - The Byrds (dedicated to RFK)

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Mr Tambourine - The Byrds (dedicated to RFK) (Original Post) LessAspin Jun 2022 OP

I knocked on doors for Bobby in Oregon two weeks before he died Thunderbeast Jun 2022 #1

Saw Bobby give a speech that spring. Had a chance to shake his hand. The night he was shot, highplainsdem Jun 2022 #2

Thunderbeast

(3,404 posts)

1. I knocked on doors for Bobby in Oregon two weeks before he died

Reply to LessAspin (Original post)

Sat Jun 4, 2022, 03:39 PM

Jun 2022

He probably still would have lost the nomination to Humphrey. In 1968, you could round up enough delegates in back room deals to win. HHH entered NO state primaries, but the "smoke filled rooms" sent him to the general election where he lost to Nixon (who killed peace talks with Hanoi in order to bloody up Johnson and Humphrey).

It was an awful year.

highplainsdem

(48,959 posts)

2. Saw Bobby give a speech that spring. Had a chance to shake his hand. The night he was shot,

Reply to LessAspin (Original post)

Sat Jun 4, 2022, 03:54 PM

Jun 2022

I felt like I wanted to die.

Tonight it will be 54 years since he was shot.

We'd be living in a very different world if he hadn't been assassinated -- if he'd defeated Nixon that fall, as I'd been sure he would.

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