Bobby Kennedy

Made one of greatest speech's on  the back flat bed truck, hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Instead of the rousing campaign speech they expected, Kennedy offered brief, impassioned remarks for peace that are considered to be one of the great public addresses of the modern era.

Indianapolis remained calm that night, which is believed to have been in part because of the speech.

In stark contrast to Indianapolis, riots erupted in more than one hundred U.S. cities including Chicago, New York City, Boston, Detroit, Oakland, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore, killing 35 and injuring more than 2,500. Across the country, approximately 70,000 army and National Guard troops were called out to restore order.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoKzCff8Zbs

Meanwhile America is lumbered with a president who hasn't got the brains of a rocking horse although no doubt he would say "I have".

Meanwhile America is lumbered with a president who hasn't got the brains of a rocking horse although no doubt he would say "I have".

thank you tictacman1. And thank you for reminding me of that wonderful speech he gave. 1968 was indeed a bad year.

i only thought of BK because i have been watching Parkland.

parkland is a good film.

i also enjoyed the recent documentary shown on channel 5
called " the curse of the kennedys"or similar..think its still
on catchup. iirc bobbys daughter is interviewed

agree about Parkland, donny. It won't be to everyones taste as it is harsh and grim. I can't say i enjoyed it mainly because of the subject matter, but that's the way it was made and they did a great job with an awful and tragic subject