Today in Labor History June 5 Robert Kennedy was shot after just finishing a speech in a California

[Omaha Steve]

I don't remember if going door to door for Bobby in the neighborhood or the grape boycott was my first political activism. Then came protesting Nam. My friend Hollywood liberal actor David Macklin was in a the Ambassador party when Bobby was gunned down.

June 5


June 5, 1968 - Shortly after midnight, Robert Kennedy was shot after just finishing a speech in a California hotel. He had won the California primary and four others and seemed a shoo-in for the Democratic presidential nomination. He died about 24 hours after the shooting; Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the assassination. Read more about the legacy of Bobby Kennedy at this link: http://www.kennedymemorialfoundation.com/index.asp?Type=B_LIST&SEC={EED9F04F-F434-4409-9664-6724B832C961} and http://www.rfkmemorial.org/rfk80th/


Thirty-five members of the Teamsters, concerned about the infiltration of organized crime in the union and other issues, meet in Cleveland to form Teamsters for a Democratic Union - 1976

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_06_05_2011

[truedelphi]

1. Today in Labor, and Civil Rights History, and Peace Movement History,

Honest Business History, etc, this nation lost one of the true blue, brighter lights we have had among us.

John, Martin, Bobby.

A :toast: to you three - if for no other reason than to dull the pain. It still hurts and always will.

[blue neen]

3. So true..."It still hurts and always will."

You stated that so well.

[blue neen]

2. Just remembering that day brings tears to my eyes.

I was only twelve when the news came out that fateful morning. I woke my mom up to tell her, and we both cried.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Seems like eons ago, in one way.

We have drifted SO far to the right.

I was 22 when he was shot. I remember watching it, and thinking...that's it, that's the end of the Dream.
They have killed them all and are sending a very serious message.

I never ever believed for a minute that "lone gunmen" managed to kill King and the Kennedy brothers.
Never did, never will.

[Wilms]

5. ^