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Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts) Tue Oct 6, 2015, 07:37 PM Oct 2015

RFK talks gun control in Roseburg, Oregon May 1968

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RFK talks gun control in Roseburg, Oregon May 1968 (Original Post) Bluenorthwest Oct 2015 OP

Just before you know what happens. randys1 Oct 2015 #1

Wow that's so ironic underpants Oct 2015 #2

Sad Memory Thunderbeast Oct 2015 #3

randys1

(16,286 posts)

1. Just before you know what happens.

Reply to Bluenorthwest (Original post)

Tue Oct 6, 2015, 07:39 PM

Oct 2015

underpants

(182,546 posts)

2. Wow that's so ironic

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Tue Oct 6, 2015, 07:41 PM

Oct 2015

Thunderbeast

(3,397 posts)

3. Sad Memory

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Wed Oct 7, 2015, 03:47 AM

Oct 2015

As high school sophomore, I canvassed neighborhoods in Portland, and worked at a couple of rallies where he spoke. He was an inspired man who fought with Johnson over the creeping commitment to the Vietnam War. Gene McCarthy won the Oregon primary. Kennedy won California a week later, but was murdered while leaving the hotel after his victory speech.

Had he lived, he probably would have led a united Democratic Party to a victory over Nixon. Instead we had the disaster of the Chicago convention, a Humphrey loss, and seven more years of war with 50,000 lost American lives.

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