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Eleven days before his death, Robert Kennedy as if looking into the future, Astoria OR, May 24, 1968 (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2023 OP
Or as if True Dough May 2023 #1
Can't find his car in the lot. twodogsbarking May 2023 #2
Potentially a great leader, another casualty of our gun culture Walleye May 2023 #3
He would have never seen, or believed, someone like trump sitting in the Oval Office Bayard May 2023 #4
Both his and his brother's deaths are still painful. Biophilic May 2023 #5

Bayard

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4. He would have never seen, or believed, someone like trump sitting in the Oval Office
Tue May 23, 2023, 08:45 AM
May 2023

Things could have been so different with Bobby as president.

Biophilic

(4,744 posts)
5. Both his and his brother's deaths are still painful.
Tue May 23, 2023, 10:23 AM
May 2023

It's been a long time, but I can still feel the horror and despair I felt at the time. That along with the absolute horror of MLK's killing define that period for me even more than Viet Nam and all the anti-war protests. I had put way too much hope in the future based on these two.

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