"Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?'

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

"I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"

In remembrance of the death of a truly great man, Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Assassinated on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, California, after winning the California primary for the upcoming Presidential election.

"Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation ... It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

I mourn your death still, Bobby. Rest in peace.

[Darth_Kitten]

1. I was going to post something, I remembered.....

36 years ago today RFK died. Nice remembrance, She!

[Fovea]

2. Bobby vs Ronnie

I still believe the former will be more important in the great sweep of history.

[sundancekid]

3. thanks for the post, and for reminding us of what once was that inspired

a whole generation like mine ...

A few more items of Bobby Kennedy inspiration:

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
Robert F. Kennedy

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Robert F. Kennedy

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
Robert F. Kennedy

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Robert F. Kennedy

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
Robert F. Kennedy

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Robert F. Kennedy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Robert F. Kennedy

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert F. Kennedy

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert F. Kennedy

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert F. Kennedy

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. Thank you very much

On this day we "mourn" a President that embodied all that is wrong with this world - greed, corruption, and hatred - it's nice to be reminded that we did at one time have leaders that inspired us with hope, peace, and unity.

[Darth_Kitten]

5. KICK

:kick:

[Rowdyboy]

6. Thanks for the reminder

I'm sorry to admit that I had forgotten. I still remember waking up that morning and hearing the news on a television in the next room. Even though I was 14 and didn't care much about politics, I REALLY liked Bobby Kennedy and was really saddened and depressed by his murder.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

8. Yes, I remember that morning too

I stayed home from school sick with laryngitis and lay on the couch watching TV, so upset. My parents were staunch and active supporters of both JFK and RKF, and they hated Nixon as much as they loved the Kennedys. It was inconceivable to us that, having been defeated once, Nixon could ever win a bid for the White House. But that morning a dream died on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

7. RFK's death is one of my first clear memories of a historical event

[nini]

9. He'll always have a piece of my heart

RIP Bobby!

We need a Bobby again.

[ronnykmarshall]

10. Bobby died on June 6th.

He lived one day after the shooting.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

13. Official sources give the date as June 5

http://www.rfkmemorial.org/RFK/index.htm

http://foia.fbi.gov/rfkasumm.htm

[ronnykmarshall]

14. That's incorect.

http://www.who2.com/robertfkennedy.html

I remember it. He was shot on the 5th and died the next night.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

18. He died on the 6th; the assassination was the 5th

But neither the FBI nor the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial makes that distinction.

[Old and In the Way]

11. How this country might have turned out differently if Bobby Kennedy had

been elected President. No Nixon.....no Reagan......no Bush. Perhaps we may have seen a real investigation into JFK's assassination. Viet Nam might have ended years sooner, saving thousands of lives.

The road not taken.....

[ronnykmarshall]

16. and he would have been elected.

What a different world it would have been.

[happynewyear]

12. I remember the assassination like it was yesterday

I was up that night watching the events in Los Angeles. RFK won the California primary and then he was shot by Sirhan Sirhan. :(

My parents were in bed asleep and I opened the door to their bedroom and announced, "Bobby Kennedy has been shot!" They both got up and started crying. :cry:

Damn it was so sad.

RFK was one of the best ever.

RIP Bobby Kennedy, RIP.

[ronnykmarshall]

15. I was asleep (7 at the time)

My mom woke me up in the morning to tell me. The next day she had to tell me that he died.

It was awful.

[Carolina]

17. Each time a man stands up for an ideal ...

such a powerful speeech to the young people of South Africa in 1966. Thanks for reminding me, SWMBO. What a difference in legacies between the man who is being universally honored on the airways today and the one who did and could have made more of positive difference if only he had had the gift of years.

I still miss him too and mourn for what could have been.

RIP, RFK

[nuxvomica]

19. I met Bobby when I was a youngster

I shook hands with him in his Senate office. My "developmentally disabled" brother spent like a half-hour talking with him and Bobby gave him a PT-109 tie clasp as a souvenir of the occasion. He was our "carpetbagger" Senator at the time and such was his legacy that the conservative Republican Rockefeller appointed to serve out RFK's term became one of the more liberal members of the Senate and was abandoned by the GOP at election time in favor of Conservative candidate James Buckley.
Bobby's Senate campaign song went like this: "Bobby Kennedy, wait till November 3, that's gonna be a great day."

Thanks for the reminder, SheWhoMustBeObeyed.

[newyawker99]

20. A kick for a great man!

:kick: