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antigop

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Sat Jul 12, 2014, 11:15 AM Jul 2014

William Pitt: The Lost, Lingering Legacy of Robert F. Kennedy

I didn't see this posted anywhere on DU...
http://www.truth-out.org

But Robert Kennedy - son of the oligarchy, scion of a family of the ruling elite after his two older brothers were laid low by war and another assassin - was so much more than that. When President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in November of 1963, Robert Kennedy was destroyed. Annihilated. Ruined utterly. He disappeared within himself and his overwhelming sorrow for a time, emerging eventually to win a US Senate seat for New York in 1964...and that is when the new, true Bobby Kennedy emerged.

You see, Bobby Kennedy had been a child of exceeding privilege and astonishing power from the moment of his birth. At no point, from his birth until his dying breath, did he ever know want, or hunger, or discrimination. When his brother was murdered in Dallas, however, the comfortable world of Robert Kennedy exploded, and for a time he was lost...and then he found himself anew, reborn, and unleashed himself upon American politics as an avatar for the poor, the downtrodden, the sick, and the hopeless.


Beautiful piece, William.
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William Pitt: The Lost, Lingering Legacy of Robert F. Kennedy (Original Post) antigop Jul 2014 OP
To dream of what might have been. Scuba Jul 2014 #1
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