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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,665 posts) Tue May 23, 2023, 08:10 AM May 2023

Eleven days before his death, Robert Kennedy as if looking into the future, Astoria OR, May 24, 1968

Sun May 23, 2021: Eleven days before his death, Robert Kennedy as if looking into the future, Astoria OR, May 24, 1968

Eleven days before his death, Robert Kennedy as if looking into the future, Astoria, Oregon, May 24, 1968:

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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

True Dough

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1. Or as if

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue May 23, 2023, 08:11 AM

May 2023

shading his eyes from the sun and looking into the distance.

Perhaps.

twodogsbarking

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2. Can't find his car in the lot.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue May 23, 2023, 08:27 AM

May 2023

Walleye

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3. Potentially a great leader, another casualty of our gun culture

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Tue May 23, 2023, 08:42 AM

May 2023

Bayard

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4. He would have never seen, or believed, someone like trump sitting in the Oval Office

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue May 23, 2023, 08:45 AM

May 2023

Things could have been so different with Bobby as president.

Biophilic

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5. Both his and his brother's deaths are still painful.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

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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