Rest in Peace - Robert Francis Kennedy - 6/6/68

[11 Bravo]

And it occurs to me that if Bobby were alive today intellectual lightweights like Hannity, Limbaugh, and others who aren't fit to occupy the same planet, would deride him as "soft on terror", or just another "Massachusetts liberal".

[JenniferJuniper]

1. Disagree....

I think it slightly more likely that if Robert Kennedy hadn't died when he did, we would not be living in this bizarro parallel universe and the likes of Hannity, BillO, and Limbaugh would not exist.

[formerrepuke]

2. ..and people at the time apparently knew what they had lost in his death:

The images taken from his funeral train say it all.....




http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0108/train_intro.htm

[Sydnie]

8. Those first two that you posted

had me sobbing like a baby.

Oh but for what might have been ....


Thank you so much for the post and the link. I wish the book were not out of print because I would snatch it up in a heart beat.

[wicket]

10. Thank-you for posting these

:hug:

[WiseButAngrySara]

11. How moving. OMG. ....n/t

[bdamomma]

3. what a great man he was, can you imagine how the world would

have been if he had lived.

[AFSCME girl]

4. It makes me so sad to think

of what we lost.....I do think that the world would have turned out to be a much different place had he lived.....

x(

[DFW]

5. That was defintely the day the music died.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I hope all of you will see the movie, 'Bobby'. You don't even have to watch it, just listen to the

recordings of his speeches. Like his brother before him, Bobby inspired people. It's what's missing in America today .... hope and inspiration to do right.

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. He was far from soft -- He actually authorized the FBI to wiretap MLK

If he was willing to do that, imagine what he would do to suspected terrorists.

[wicket]

9. God bless him and his family

:patriot:

[DesertRat]

12. How different the world might have looked today.....

Bobby was killed just 2 months after Martin Luther King. It was a terrible time in our history. Rest in peace, Bobby and Martin.