BBC's On This Day: 1968 Robert Kennedy is shot

[Greeby]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/5/newsid_2658000/2658877.stm

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[BlueIris]

1. Oh, crap. I totally forgot.

I will second and third your:

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[LuckyLib]

2. Oh for his brains, his savvy, his compassion, and great common

sense. All we've got is a dim bulb.

[uppityperson]

3. I remember that day well, calling my mother and crying on the phone

"all the good guys are getting killed", she trying to reassure my while in tears herself. I was a teenger, she was not as old as I am now. RIP Bobby.

[Greeby]

4. When my parents visited Washington DC and surrounding areas

They told me that this was the lonliest, saddest part of Arlington Cemetery (note this is their photo, not from a website)



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[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

5. It was a horrible, horrible, horrible day

I was home from school sick and watched the coverage all day. And then the funeral train a few days later...I still cry watching the old footage.

Rest in peace, dear Bobby.

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[Erika]

6. I woke up tp the News. Totally shocking

I remember Bobby as saying "he just had a had a haircut" and the government didn't belong in his bedroom.

He was a real person, a far cry from the rich elitist frat brat that W is who wants to control adult personal lives.

I an 1000% ashamed that W ever was able to claim the title of our president.

[cosmicdot]

7. "what we need in the United States ... love, wisdom, and compassion

"toward one another, and a feeling of justice for those who still suffer within our country..."

he "saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it."


I feel as if our Nation's soul died with RFK.
Bobby, we can use someone like you today. Someone who will speak to our national hearts ... from the heart ... catapulting the hate, the division, the diversions, distractions, the spin, and the poll-driven-powder dry-corpo-think-tanked rhetoric ...
I've been waiting 38 years.
The torch is available.


Bobby announcing MLK's death in Indianapolis
http://easylink.playstream.com/historyplace/thp-rfk-mlk.ra



I, too, woke to the news ... cried ... went to school to rehearse my senior class's graduation ceremony ... I arrived at the same time as a classmate who had supported Nixon in our Government class's mock election (RFK won) ... she greeted me: 'looks like your candidate won't be making it after all' ... she taught me a lot about Republicans that day ... watching the train making its way from New York to Washington, I remember being inspired to write a poem which, unfortunately, has been lost somewhere along life's highway ... but, its message is in the heart's of those who remember.

[LibDemAlways]

8. "Those of us who loved him and who take

him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will someday come to pass for all the world.

As he said many times in many parts of this nation to those he touched and who sought to touch him

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask, why not?'"


From Ted Kennedy's moving eulogy at his brother's funeral - one of the most poignant, heartbreaking moments I've ever witnessed.

[Erika]

9. Yes. Our country is far better because of the Kennedy's

and I am so thankful for them. Bobby was a sweetheart.

[LaPera]

10. Thanks, man your right June 6th...Bobby had it..fuck they knew it too