Reply #11: Bobby was pure [View All]

[sandnsea]

He was really the conscience of JFK's Presidency, to me. He didn't have political agendas or interest groups, he had people he cared about and he was dedicated to making change and raising the conscience of Americans so that they would see change was necessary. MLK was killed, Bobby was killed, it seemed like anything decent and moral would not survive.

"There are children in the Mississippi Delta," he said, "whose bellies are swollen with hunger ... Many of them cannot go to school because they have no clothes or shoes. These conditions are not confined to rural Mississippi. They exist in dark tenements in Washington, D.C., within sight of the Capitol, in Harlem, in South Side Chicago, in Watts. There are children in each of these areas who have never been to school, never seen a doctor or a dentist. There are children who have never heard conversation in their homes, never read or even seen a book."