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joeybee12

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Wed Oct 7, 2015, 05:00 PM Oct 2015

Watch RFK deliver speech on gun control in Roseburg, Ore., weeks before his assassination

Last week while delivering an angry call for action on gun control, President Obama said he had once visited the town of Roseburg, Ore., the site of America’s latest mass shooting.

“I’ve been to Roseburg,” Obama said at the White House, hours after nine people were killed and seven others wounded by a heavily armed gunman at Umpqua Community College. “There are really good people there.” The president is scheduled to travel to Roseburg on Friday.

Nearly 50 years ago, on the eve of the 1968 Oregon Democratic primary, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy delivered a campaign speech in Roseburg calling for stricter gun control measures.

“With all the violence and murder and killings we’ve had in the United States,” Kennedy said, “I think you will agree that we must keep firearms from people who have no business with guns or rifles.”

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/watch-rfk-deliver-speech-on-gun-control-in-183517568.html

Video at the link...I am unable to embed.

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Watch RFK deliver speech on gun control in Roseburg, Ore., weeks before his assassination (Original Post) joeybee12 Oct 2015 OP
And so it goes .... octoberlib Oct 2015 #1
The mroe things change, the more they stay the same... joeybee12 Oct 2015 #2
They just showed this on MSNBC. Great speech! octoberlib Oct 2015 #3
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