I once let my emotions enter into a Democratic primary. Not no more

[NNN0LHI]

I worked for the campaign any way I could. The candidate appeared to be everything anyone could ask for. He was destined to become president. Then he was murdered. I was 13 years old.

Don

http://www.robertfkennedy.net/thedaytheunitedstatesdied.htm

Thursday June 6, 1968

The Day The United States Died

by Mark R. Elsis

"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it."
Robert F. Kennedy


Right after delivering a rousing speech to an overflowing ballroom of exuberant campaign supporters thanking them for helping him win the big prize of the California Democratic primary for President, the junior Senator from New York State, Robert Francis Kennedy was shot at by an assassin four times within a couple of inches. He was wounded by three of the bullets with the fourth bullet going through his jacket. The exact time was 12:15am Wednesday morning June 5, 1968. The location was the kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. I was only a 10 year old boy back then, but I somehow knew the day Bobby Kennedy died, the next day, Thursday June 6, 1968, was the day the United States died.

If this assassination of Bobby Kennedy didn't happen, he would have been the Democratic presidential nominee in 1968. He then would have faced the Republican presidential nominee, Richard Milhouse Nixon, in the November election. Bobby most likely would have won and been the next President of the United States. Since Bobby was opposed to the Viet Nam War ( police action ), this would have put an end to it in 1969 instead of 1975.

This death by assassination of Bobby Kennedy occurred only 63 days after the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis and also less then 5 years after his older brother, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas. snip

Six people were shot in the kitchen pantry that night. Lying on the floor, shot three times, Bobby’s last audible words were "Is everybody okay?"

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[ewagner]

1. I was at Florida St Univ

Up too late studying for an exam and fell asleep on the couch in the scholarship house living room. The only black guy in the house woke me up: He said:" Hey man, they shot Kennedy!" I roused and said , "..so that was over four years ago..." He slapped me on the back of the head and said "No you dips**t! it's Bobby, they killed Bobby!" We watched TV as it played out. Demonstrations broke out on campus that afternoon. We didn't know much about who killed Bobby, but we knew the war would go on.

I remember that sequence of events......not much more.

[Jersey Devil]

2. I saw it "live" but thankfully not in color

Of course I am not talking about the shooting but the aftermath. The call for "a doctor in the house", the look of utter pain and total dejection on the face of Rosy Grier, the gentle Giant who was at RFK's side when he was shot. It was earth shattering.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

3. Hi from FSU. The students have written "Bush" under the word

Stop on a lot of the stop signs on campus. Maybe there is some hope!

[ewagner]

4. LOL

My son is there now.....told me about the signs also!

He said he went to some of the "Stop the War" rallies too. Did you go?

[MuseRider]

5. I remember that double whammy

all too well. I think I was in 8th grade and just really becoming aware of Viet Nam and politics. I adored Bobby and I adored Martin Luther King. Things have been bad since then but I have never really felt as bad as I remember I felt then until the installation of GWB. Too many good people of peace are now gone.

[Mick Knox]

6. I am the same..

I do not get worked up over primaries..

[bobbieinok]

7. I was in grad school in CA and had voted earlier for Gene McCarthy

68 was a very long, very bad year

...MLK killed in April, Robert in June, the democratic convention in Chicago in August at the same time the 'Prague Spring' was crushed by the Soviets, my brother was sent to VN

...one good thing later - son born June 69

[KoKo]

8. That was a horrible year......horrible. n/t

[JNelson6563]

9. He was shot on my birthday.

Those bastards have been whacking Dems they fear ever since JFK.

Julie

[Blue_Roses]

10. Sad. Very sad

reading this. I often wonder how things would have been different if JFK and Robert Kennedy had lived to walk us through some tough times in our country.

Even the death of JFKjr. I weeped for days.