Wow… love reading this. Robert Kennedy was my hero when I was growing up and I remember that night I was watching on TV when Kennedy won the California primary. Then a few minutes later all this commotion was going with the commentator saying tat Kennedy was shot I just couldn’t believe it. It was a very sad moment for this 11 year-old boy staying up late at night watching his hero
I was 16 years old and living in my parents LA home the night RFK was assassinated. It’s one of my most vivid memories. Everyone seemed so energized by his campaign to end the Vietnam War. He was youthful, energetic, handsome, and he got our zeitgeist exactly right. Hey, he even flashed the two-finger peace sign! As a young male soon to be of draft age, I had a personal stake in seeing the war come to an end. The night he was cut down, everything seemed to change. The hope, the dreams, the youthful arrogance, they were all snatched away. Instead, we got Dick Nixon(!)- and more war. I say honestly that I’ve never fully recovered from the shock of that horrid event.
Your vote is your voice. I’m working in one of the many OC Vote Centers tomorrow. Nothing will make me happier than to greet you and ensure you use your voice on Election Day. Who inspired me to do this—to help you vote easily and securely? Robert F. Kennedy.
Three of my grandparents were naturalized citizens immigrated here alone as teenagers for freedom. They instill in all of us the duty to vote. In fact, my grandmother wrote a letter to family to be read at the funeral. Admonished us to vote, to let political differences fail to divide family, and to NEVER say we are Irish Americans. Her quote: "You are Americans of Irish descent." I remember the RFK assination--home from college in LA visiting dying father. Seared my soul. Another good read I recently finished was Cano's four books on LBJ. What a scoundrel--who knew?
I've always thought RFK was the biggest "what if" in American politics. He was shot and killed just as he was celebrating winning the California primary in the 1968 presidential election. He had gotten over the malaise from his brothers tragic death nearly five years earlier, and finally--FINALLY--escaped from that big shadow to become his own person.
What if he was not killed? I like to think that he would continued his momentum, earning the Democratic nomination, then beating Nixon to become president. There was so much potential, it honestly makes me sick. Not just for him, but for America.
Where ever you stand politically, which ever candidate you think is the best, hope all you Californians get out to do your civic duty and vote.
The Los Angeles Times performed a disservice by (presumably) restricting Berkeley IGS from releasing the mayoral poll. It's still not on their web site as of today, election day. Whatever goal they were trying to achieve, it certainly was not transparency. Meanwhile, they get quoted by other sources just like they want. If it's ever released, it will be too late at least for the primary. Shame on Berkeley IGS for taking the money for this poll and presumably agreeing to withhold the data.
You're not. But then neither is RFK, Jr.
However, you are inspiring me and others to care more than we might otherwise, about. getting out the vote in the OC. Thanks.
RFK: yes, great respect. I recently learned that when the freedom ride busses met violence in Montgomery, it wasn’t JFK who took action. It was RFK.
Wow… love reading this. Robert Kennedy was my hero when I was growing up and I remember that night I was watching on TV when Kennedy won the California primary. Then a few minutes later all this commotion was going with the commentator saying tat Kennedy was shot I just couldn’t believe it. It was a very sad moment for this 11 year-old boy staying up late at night watching his hero
I was 16 years old and living in my parents LA home the night RFK was assassinated. It’s one of my most vivid memories. Everyone seemed so energized by his campaign to end the Vietnam War. He was youthful, energetic, handsome, and he got our zeitgeist exactly right. Hey, he even flashed the two-finger peace sign! As a young male soon to be of draft age, I had a personal stake in seeing the war come to an end. The night he was cut down, everything seemed to change. The hope, the dreams, the youthful arrogance, they were all snatched away. Instead, we got Dick Nixon(!)- and more war. I say honestly that I’ve never fully recovered from the shock of that horrid event.
Thank you for imploring Californians to VOTE!
Your vote is your voice. I’m working in one of the many OC Vote Centers tomorrow. Nothing will make me happier than to greet you and ensure you use your voice on Election Day. Who inspired me to do this—to help you vote easily and securely? Robert F. Kennedy.
I will always wonder deeply about the direction America would have gone if Bobby had been elected President.
Yes, he was often the conscious behind JFK's Good Works
Three of my grandparents were naturalized citizens immigrated here alone as teenagers for freedom. They instill in all of us the duty to vote. In fact, my grandmother wrote a letter to family to be read at the funeral. Admonished us to vote, to let political differences fail to divide family, and to NEVER say we are Irish Americans. Her quote: "You are Americans of Irish descent." I remember the RFK assination--home from college in LA visiting dying father. Seared my soul. Another good read I recently finished was Cano's four books on LBJ. What a scoundrel--who knew?
I've always thought RFK was the biggest "what if" in American politics. He was shot and killed just as he was celebrating winning the California primary in the 1968 presidential election. He had gotten over the malaise from his brothers tragic death nearly five years earlier, and finally--FINALLY--escaped from that big shadow to become his own person.
What if he was not killed? I like to think that he would continued his momentum, earning the Democratic nomination, then beating Nixon to become president. There was so much potential, it honestly makes me sick. Not just for him, but for America.
Where ever you stand politically, which ever candidate you think is the best, hope all you Californians get out to do your civic duty and vote.
The Los Angeles Times performed a disservice by (presumably) restricting Berkeley IGS from releasing the mayoral poll. It's still not on their web site as of today, election day. Whatever goal they were trying to achieve, it certainly was not transparency. Meanwhile, they get quoted by other sources just like they want. If it's ever released, it will be too late at least for the primary. Shame on Berkeley IGS for taking the money for this poll and presumably agreeing to withhold the data.