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electric_blue68

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4. It was a truely Devastating event for our country, and the world....

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sat Jun 6, 2026, 03:15 PM

23 hrs ago

Acknowledging that he would need to be schooled about women as equal people; he became right about racism, aanti-poverty after a Senate tour of the Mississippi Delta, wanted the Vietnam War to end.

When I say the world; he gave an amazing speech in South Africa about gathering change, and he conferring with his brother JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I lived through it. It was horrific. 😔

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RFK was murdered 58 years ago today. And then we got Nixon. I don't think America will ever really recover. [View all] Botany Yesterday OP

Also, Nixon's campaign was the beginning of the Southern Strategy, which is the core of the right. themaguffin 23 hrs ago #1

And with Nixon we got Roger Ailes who went onto start Fox News* w/Rupert Murdoch and 4 1/4 years ... Botany 23 hrs ago #2

No, the country never has recovered from those "coincidental" 68er 23 hrs ago #3

It was a truely Devastating event for our country, and the world.... electric_blue68 23 hrs ago #4

Bobby MoonlightHillFarm 22 hrs ago #5

Woah. That's even more personally devastating! How terrible for you! electric_blue68 22 hrs ago #6

And TY for the funeral train short. electric_blue68 12 hrs ago #7

11/22/1963. That Marks The Beginning Of Fascism Here. ColoringFool 12 hrs ago #8