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Robert Kennedy speaks in Indianapolis, announcing to the crowd that Martin Luther King, Jr. had just been assassinated. April 4, 1968.
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Last night, I posted Dr. King's speech from April 3, 1968. Here's a speech delivered forty years ago tonight by Senator Robert Kennedy:
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On June 8, 1968, the body of Robert Francis Kennedy was transported by train from New York to Washington. The rolling funeral procession stretched twenty cars long and carried roughly 1,000 people. Because of overwhelming crowds along the tracks, a journey that should have lasted four hours took twice as long. In Elizabeth, New Jersey, [...]
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By J. Kingston Pierce One of the most moving speeches ever made, its importance only exacerbated by one’s knowledge of the tragedy that would be visited upon Bobby Kennedy less than two months later . (Cross-posted at Limbo .)
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If you are of a certain age, you will vividly recall where you were forty years ago when you learned that the unthinkable had happend -- another Kennedy brother had been shot. I was fifteen years old. The insistent ring of the telephone broke into my sleep in the early morning hours of June 6, 1968. It was my friend the [now] author and journalist Cathy Scott saying, "Kennedy's been shot." "No he...
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Today the United States marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of one of it's giants : Martin Luther King, Jr . The video that I present here is of Robert Kennedy announcing the tragedy to an Indiana crowd that had rallied to support his bid for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination . Full text of the speech : Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm only going to...
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I guess one of the many advantages of not running for president is that I can hopefully think and talk about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy without getting into any hot water. As some may already know, RFK was assassinated 40 years ago today in California, in what was obviously a horrendous act by Sirhan Sirhan. In a tender yet bitter bit of irony, he gave what I (and I'm hardly alone) still...
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Today is the 40 year anniversary since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It has been forty years since this man gave his life for a great cause - that of equality. We are all living his legacy today. We should all honor his name and never forget his most profound words: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." The last speech of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life April 3,...
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been 40 years, incredibly enough, since Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis. The Commerical Appeal has a section devoted to King . Yesterday some activists there called for new action . I remember the assassination like it was yesterday. I was in seventh grade at the time and heard about the killing in my first-period science class. It had happened several hours before,...
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Martin Luther King had already begun to fade from the public conscious on April 4, 1968, in a sense a victim of his own success, having brilliantly organized his people and brought moral pressure to bear resulting in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But his assassination brought him back to the front with a jolt. There were two things I remember vividly about that night....
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About a month ago, I thought of this speech (an edited version of which was just unearthed and posted by Joe Sudbay at AMERICAblog) by Robert Kennedy in Indianapolis on the night Martin Luther King was murdered. What struck me...
