***** In Memoria. Robert F. Kennedy. Nov. 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968 *****

[L. Coyote]

Please add your memories, and links to speeches, videos, articles,
to celebrate RFK's life and to remember what was stolen in 1968.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Robert_F._Kennedy_appearing_before_Platform_Committee,_August_19,_1964.jpg/800px-Robert_F._Kennedy_appearing_before_Platform_Committee,_August_19,_1964.jpg

[patrice]

1. Thanks Bobby, We will Live the message.

[L. Coyote]

2. Video: Eulogy of Robert F. Kennedy

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5270950322315206900

[L. Coyote]

5. RFK - Final Journey - Funeral Train June 8, 1968

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x142599

[Hart2008]

17. Sail on silvergirl! Sail on by!

Sail on silvergirl!
Sail on by!
Your time has come to shine!
All your dreams are on their way.
See how they shine!

If you need a friend,
I'm sailing right behind.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind.

"Bridge Over Troubled Water", by Paul Simon- 1969

Written in reference to RFK's funeral train.

[Hart2008]

23. More photos from the train here:

R.F.K., R.I.P., Revisited:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/magazine/01RFKtext-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

slide show of pics here:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/06/01/magazine/20080601_RFKTRAIN_FEATURE.html

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

9. Beautiful despite the wrong dates (not 1921-1969, but 1925-1968)

[onehandle]

3. Would have been the greatest President ever. nt

[L. Coyote]

4. Robert F. Kennedy speech - Mindless Menace of Violence

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x137893

This speech by Robert F. Kennedy was given on April 5, 1968 at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio.

[L. Coyote]

6. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial

http://www.rfkmemorial.org/

Robert F. Kennedy boldly faced tough problems and challenged the comfortable and complacent. To keep his vision alive, his family and friends founded a living memorial in 1968.

Today the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial is dedicated to advancing the human rights movement through providing innovative support to courageous human rights defenders around the world.

Mission Statement:
Since its inception in 1968, The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial has aimed to fulfill the legacy of Robert Kennedy through promoting the full spectrum of human rights within the United States and throughout the world. In order to reflect the global nature of RFK's work, the Memorial established the annual Human Rights Award in 1984 to honor individuals who, at great risk, stand up to oppression in the nonviolent pursuit of social justice. Led by the Kennedy family, a staff of expert human rights activists and a strong network of volunteers, the Memorial develops and implements projects which enhance and complement the social change agendas of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Laureates and Social Justice Fellows. Today the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit charitable organization that works to realize his dream of a peaceful and just world through domestic and international programs that help the disadvantaged and oppressed, build our next generation of leaders, and tackle the toughest problems facing our society.

[life long demo]

7. Bobby gave people hope

From some one who campaigned for Bobby in Pennsylvania. For those too young to have heard him or seen him. He was special. He made you feel that you mattered, that you could change things. He gave you hope. I do feel that his spirit has touched Obama. Oh Bobby, if only. . . . . .

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

8. Thank you, and welcome to DU

:hi:

[eowyn_of_rohan]

10. I fell asleep that night with my radio on

woke up about midnight, it seems, and heard the breaking news. I was in my adolescent years... Laid there for hours, listening to the updates, sick with shock and sadness, and there was nobody to talk to. That fall, the song Abraham, Martin and John first aired on the radio. They had to work Bobby's name into one of the verses. What a sick, sad year... Wish he were here now, boy do we ever need him. Maybe RFK Jr. will get a position with Obama. That would be fantabulawesome, as my niece said the other day.

[L. Coyote]

11. My radio alarm came on loudly in the morning, precisely with the headline.

Bobby Kennedy has been shot.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

13. It was stunningly unreal, wasn't it?

It felt like the country was unravelling... just looked up the details, and it happened about midnight in L.A., so it was more like 2:00am when I woke up to the news in Madison, WI.

[L. Coyote]

21. I left campaign HQ just as the speech concluded. Our vision of a new America was killed

that night, and has yet to be restored.

Bobby made the dream seem attainable. He moved the nation forward just by speaking out, by bringing his reason and emotions, his voice, to the fore. We still have that voice, we still have the dream, and we still know what happened. We must live the dream.

And, we must not forget that assassinations altered the course of civil rights, equality, liberty, and justice.

[guruoo]

14. First I knew was when I awakened by my mother's voice, saying: "They got Bobby". n/t

[annabanana]

12. The last remaining air went out of the dream

that day. It was fast on MLK's assasination and things seemed hopeless.

[Kajsa]

15. Thank you, Senator Kennedy,

for leading in the fight for all of us.

:patriot:

You would have been an outstanding president.


:(

[bdamomma]

16. he was a man way ahead of his time.

can you imagine how different things would have been.

[Jade Fox]

18. Sigh.......

What might have been.......

[Contrary1]

19. Damn...I miss him still.

I shook his hand. I thought everything was going to be ok. He inspired that within me. And now, I see Obama. I feel a spark to the flame that was extinguished 40 years ago.

We have to win this.

[EFerrari]

20. Mom and I walked all that afternoon to GOTV in her precincts.

It was a hot summer day in the Santa Clara Valley. We'd gone to see him at the Cow Palace some weeks before. I was 12 and my single mom was living and breathing this campaign.

We got home late, dusty and too tired to cook, and napped on the living room couch with the teevee on because we didn't want to miss anything that night. The next thing I knew, Mom was sobbing and my grandmother was crying. It was surreal. Such a beautiful balmy night.

My mother went to bed for days. My grandma and I took care of my little brother and everything seemed sort of ugly and painful for a long time.

I remember that Mom didn't watch the funeral with us, unlike President Kennedy's funeral that we all watched together -- the whole extended family. She only watched bits. My grandmother watched all the coverage with me. But it was too much for my poor mother.

[pleah]

22. K&R

I was only 9 yrs. old when he was taken from us, but I knew it was a huge loss for all of us.