RFK
The life of a young, idealistic anti-war Democratic presidential candidate was cut short forty years ago. New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy, in the wee hours of June 5 shortly after he claimed victory in the crucial California Democratic primary, was mortally wounded by an assassin while exiting the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles through the kitchen.
Just weeks prior, Senator Kennedy informed a large crowd in Indianapolis, Indiana of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death. He offered the crowd two options: continued racial and civil unrest or reconciliation.
Kennedy died on the morning of June 6.
Two days later, young brother Edward M. Kennedy delivered the eulogy for older brother, Robert, and reiterated the line from a play by George Bernard Shaw that the elder Kennedy often quoted on the campaign trail:
“Some men see things as they are and say why.
I dream things that never were and say why not.”
Listen:
Below is the montage from the dramatization of Kennedy’s killing in the 2006 film, Bobby, set to the audio of a speech, “On the Mindless Menace of Violence,” delivered in April 1968 at the City Club of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio.
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