RFK. We lost so much on 6/6/68

[maveric]

This should have been very joyous event. He was shot down by the same people who gunned down his brother just a few minutes after this pic was taken.

[DesertRat]

1. Agreed. The photos are wonderful

But that baseball player photo is kind of jarring.

[maveric]

2. Thats the late, great "Cammie". Ken Caminiti.

Another one who died too young.

[hedgehog]

3. The worse part is that so much of the Kennedy legacy has been buried

under 40 years of speculation about their private lives. Those who grew up with Reagen and the Bushes can not imagine what it was like to have a real leader!

[cascadiance]

13. It's funny when you can TRAP them into quoting an older Republican leader...

... such as Teddy Roosevelt. It's obvious that so many freepers have lost touch what real stewardship is. They cherry pick their own quotes from someone like Teddy... Look at this post someone created in response to my post on this other message board:

http://forum.signonsandiego.com/upload/showpost.php?p=2612715&postcount=10

I just loved giving him these responses! No response from yet on these Teddy quotes! :)

http://forum.signonsandiego.com/upload/showpost.php?p=2612929&postcount=14

http://forum.signonsandiego.com/upload/showpost.php?p=2612930&postcount=15

[leftchick]

4. I believe it was 6/5/68

never the less I totally agree. have you seen this?

CIA role claim in Kennedy killing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/6169006.stm

[maveric]

5. He was shot on 6/5. Hung on till 6/6.

If I'm not mistaken.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

6. He was shot on Tuesday 6/5/68 but didn't die until the next day.

I remember it very well...

[cureautismnow]

17. He lived about 25 & 1/2 hours after being shot.

Too bad he couldn't have hung in there at least another 25.5+ YEARS. :-(

"Robert Kennedy lived for 25 hours and 27 minutes after being shot on a cruelly elongated Wednesday that the nation is likely to remember in the context of that Friday in 1963."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900110-8,00.html

[Faygo Kid]

7. The FReepers remember, too. Lest we forget who they are.

I'm sorry to bring this up in one sense, but in another, let's never forget who they are and what we're up against. I do not mean to offend - just to say that like Bobby Kennedy, we need to stay strong about what is out there.

To: RacerF150

Why all the fawning over this dead POS??? He was one of the most crooked AG’s ever.

I agree. Sirhan Sirhan did America a favor. My god, can you imagine what RFK would be like if he were alive today? Barf!!!

34 posted on 06/05/2007 10:44:14 AM PDT by D-Chivas
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As for me, I was 16 when he died, and I remember exactly, precisely where I was, what I saw, what I felt. And as someone shared this with me to make my blood boil, I share it with you. We cannot give up the fight; Bobby didn't, and neither can we.

[WinkyDink]

8. I was in college. Man, it went downhill fast in '68 and '69, no?

[maveric]

9. Very fast! NIXON was elected instead of Bobby.

Nothing short of a coup.

[pamela]

10. Nice photos. So sad.

Here's one of my favorite photos.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. His daughter, Kathleen, was on Tweety's show tonight

[L. Coyote]

12. I worked in the campaign. We knew we were off to the White House that night.

That primary was the last real hurdle.

I went to sleep exhausted after watching the victory speech. I awoke to my radio alarm on the hour,
set very loud to truly awake me. It came on with the announcer saying, "Senator Kennedy is dead."

That night changed the course of American history, resulting in a sharp turn to the right, a major
setback for civil rights, a prolonged war in Vietnam, and a shameful, criminal President.

We have yet to recover or to the reconcile this history.

[WinkyDink]

14. I'm honored to know you, L. Coyote. I was awakened by a dorm-mate banging on my door; we couldn't

believe it. And so soon after MLK, Jr.!!

We hoped against hope that Bobby would make it....

"The Parallax View".

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. Losing Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy within two months of each other

was a blow from wihch the nation never recovered.

It really took the stuffing out of the American Left.

Both men had moved beyond their original concerns to address questions of economic justice and to oppose militarism. It brings tears to my eyes to think of what this nation could have been if their ideas had been put into practice.

We'd be more like Scandinavia than like...oh, I don't know, at this rate, we'll be the Philippines in a couple of years.

I think that's why they were assassinated. They were getting too close to undermining the Establishment, and the Big Boys got scared.

[L. Coyote]

18. No statute of limitations on murder. The cover up continues.

[stevedeshazer]

16. I saw him just before his murder

On May 26, 1968 RFK came to my little town in Oregon. I was thirteen years old.

At the time, I was handing out buttons and bumperstickers supporting the re-election of Senator Wayne Morse, one of the only two US Senators to vote against the Tonkin Gulf resolution of 1964, the one which drew the US into the war.

My parents were Gene McCarthy supporters, and were mortified when the local newspaper printed pictures of the event, one of which showed me holding a sign reading "I (heart) Bobby)".

I'll never forget the night he was murdered. I was asleep, and my dad woke me up with the news.

A part of me died that night, too. I've been trying to get it back ever since.

The kind of hope and optimism we then-young people had at that time was smashed to bits that night 39 long years ago.

[bamademo]

19. I recently watched the movie "Bobby"

It's about the events that took place that day in the Ambassador Hotel. I sobbed for an hour after the movie was over because it reminded me of what America lost that day. We would be in a much better place now if he had lived. He would have been a 2 term president. Instead we ended up with Nixon, Ray-guns and 2 disastrous Bushes.

[WritersBlock]

20. We lost more than we'll ever realize.

I remember lying in bed listening to the sound of the TV coming from the living room, hearing that he was dead. Then my Mom came into the bedroom to tell me. My brother worked on the campaign. He rode the funeral train and attended the funeral. We kept catching glimpses of him on TV during the coverage.

I remember thinking, even young as I was, that the world as I knew it had ended.

[mdmc]

21. God Bless

:patriot: