Remembering our unimaginable loss, 47 years ago today. Bobby.

[Faygo Kid]

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This really cost our nation and the world. Another one of those memories that I recall exactly when and where I was. Just damn.

[49jim]

1. I was in college

home after my first year. I remember waking up and thought it was a dream.....thought it was JFK.

[For Freddie]

16. Dutchess Co. RFK campaign office

We had just come through the MLK loss and the riots. We lived in the "ghetto" of Poughkeepsie New York. We were community organizers.
Poughkeepsie had a beautiful and well established black community.
I had my infant daughter who I was nursing. As soon as I heard Bobby was gone I went down to the campaign office at Market and Main St.
I sat there and nursed my baby and talked to my friend who ran the office at that time. It was also the summer we worked with Pete and Toshi Seeger on the first concert for the Hudson River.

We got an invitation to Bobby's funeral at St. Patrick's as representatives for the Model Cities project. As we were waiting in the heat I passed out holding my baby. I woke up on a gurney in the lobby of an air conditioned building with many others who had crashed in the heat and humidity. We never got to go into the funeral. But we did feel great unity and comfort with the huge group of people there in the streets of NYC. I will always remember this.

[BeyondGeography]

27. Great story

In addition to everything else, I remember the weather in the NYC area that week. Coming up on 50 years (!).

Thanks. Glad you have joined us here.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Bobby..

[marym625]

3. K&R!

[potone]

4. Thank you for posting this.

I will never forget the day he died. Had he lived, we might have been spared the presidency of Richard Nixon. What is saddest to me is that the compassion he showed for the poor has disappeared from our political discourse. The Republicans express contempt and even hatred for the poor, and the Democrats for far too long have only talked about the middle class; nobody talks about the problems of the working class and the poor.

[Faygo Kid]

7. I have no doubt that Bobby would have swept Nixon into the dustbin of history.

He would have crushed Nixon, no matter how many dirty tricks Nixon the candidate would have employed. And we would have been out of Vietnam within a year, and much more.

[RufusTFirefly]

8. The compassion shown for ANYONE has practically disappeared

I'm struck by the selfish, vindictive, and overall mean-spirited cancer that has spread through much of society since Bobby was killed. It is even in evidence here.

[potone]

10. You are right.

This mean-spiritedness, I think, began with the election of Reagan, and it has been downhill from there.

[gopiscrap]

29. Exactly

[LibDemAlways]

5. I was a sophomore in high school.

The students were being their typical obnoxious selves that day when it was announced that RFK had died, and one of the teachers, Mr. Armstrong, was very upset. He called out the class for their joking around and said something to the effect of "A good man is dead. Show some restraint and respect."

1968. What a horrible year that was.

[jwirr]

6. A great lose. I was home taking care of my 3 daughters. Absolutely devistated. Lost a lot of the

faith I had in people that day. Now I know that is exactly what they wanted - for us to give up.

[Boomerproud]

9. In solemn rememberance.

Hugs to Ethel and the children (and now grandchildren)-and as the OP gently said...the world.

[JDPriestly]

11. His words are still relevant today with regard to the choices we are making.

Where would he stand on the TPP? On the candidates for 2016?

[mahannah]

12. RK, JK, MK. Too much.

[colsohlibgal]

14. What Do They Have In Common?

Oh yeah, just lone nuts, nothing to see here, they just all happened to be liberal icons.

Now Reagan did get shot by a psycho but he didn't die. The other three - the only one that even lingered for a few hours was Bobby.

[mahannah]

20. Your point?

[cascadiance]

13. He predicted Obama's presidency right before he died too...

http://rollingout.com/business/executive-suite/robert-f-kennedy-predicted-black-presidency-to-the-exact-year/

[yuiyoshida]

19. wow...

never knew that, the things you learn on DU!

[MrMickeysMom]

21. Thanks for that reference...

Much good DNA in that one… We lost so much… also, his brother, MLK and so many civil rights leaders.

[WillyT]

15. K & R !!!

[americannightmare]

17. In the last three months of his life...

RFK was no longer a politician. Watch some of the speeches and you get a sense that he was just trying to understand the human condition and address it from a more personal perspective. Read "The Last Campaign" to really get a feel for how this was playing out in those final months...

This short clip is an example - he's at times a little incoherent, and even seems lost, but it's so heartfelt...

[Faygo Kid]

18. Post it please, on Video & Multimedia.

I think he may have had a premonition in how his message transformed after MLK's death, who definitely had a premonition. What a better nation and world we would be if both had lived, but it was not to be.

Please post this.

[MrMickeysMom]

22. Kicking for Bobby...

[niyad]

23. will never forget

[Va Lefty]

24. Still so sad these many years later. What might have been...

[ailsagirl]

25. Forty-seven years ago

Still hurts

[randys1]

26. And I still have a hard time believing this was the idea of one person and one person only

[wendylaroux]

28. I remember my Dad crying,I was 7

I thought there was a death in the family.My Mom told me the reason.
And then when the Dion? song came out, the tears started again,mine too.

[LiberalElite]

30. Senior in H.S. nt

[deutsey]

31. What always gets blithely glossed over

when the chattering classes pontificate on how unlikely it was that RFK would win the '68 election is that he appealed to urban and rural people, black, white, Hispanic, men, women, poor, middle class, affluent, college educated and manual laborers.