Tom Brokaw and Mrs. Ethel Kennedy .... now watching this excellent documentary of RFK. One of the best documentaries I have ever seen, in depth, many wonderful interviews, his life was cut way too short. He would have been a tremendous President, his strength and courage and fighting corruption and for the American people.
@michaelmaxwell: After consideration I agree with you. He set his own course, be damned to the cautious, and unfurled his own sails, and held steady on course. He would have had a firm hand on the tiller and the world have been a different place. ⛵️
I agree, although it is a shame that their parents were so harsh growing up, not allowing anyone to cry or feel emotion. I am sure that that must have had something to do with all the men and their philandering, as well as their own father having multiple affairs.
I remember, too. I was playing in a huge cardboard box at the tender age of almost 5, where grama and mom were working in our kitchen, old tv on in the other room interrupted programming to relate the news and they went running in the other room to the tv. I didn't understand any of it at the time. I sat alone in a huge cardboard box and listened to them crying.
@tjdomerny: There is a clip of the train going from NYC to Washington and the crowds and interviews in present times with some of the people that were watching the train go by. I watch it sometimes, just to remember. ❤
This documentary is so well constructed that takes me by the hand and immerses me in the reality of the RFK period. I enjoy watching it although I wish he and his brother, the President, hadn't been assassinated. My generation carry the joy of their lives and the immense grief of their loss.
I dont care what anybody says. Robert Kennedy was a down to earth ,god fearing family man. He would have made the world a better place for our children
@@haroldbrown5308 Yes indeed he was. But at the senate enquiries, Hoffa made Robert Kennedy look like a privileged schoolboy brat, who was hell bent on going after a prominent unionist - who came from a very working class background. It is also little known that Robert Kennedy once worked for Joe Mcarthy during the infamous communist witch-hunts of the 1950s -60s
It is SO HARD to watch this, but I did. I was in Northern California when he was killed. After his victory was announced we turned off the TV. (Our first color TV) When I got up the next morning my mother and sister were in the kitchen, looking shocked, as if someone had shot through our window. I asked, What is it? My sister said “they shot Bobby Kennedy”. She said they, not he. So horrible. It was later they announced his death. So when things like this are on I watch them. It’s like watching the movie Valkyrie, good movie, but you’re filled with dread because you already know the ending. But to honor honorable men, like Bobby and von Stauffenberg, to remember, to tell your children in this time of number 45 and weak kneed Biden, when there’s precious little to be proud of, that once there were such men as John and Bobby Kennedy, and von Stauffenberg, and Martin Luther King and giants walked with us, but I don’t see that happening again. Stupid people accept stupid leaders. I am so much older now than any of them got to be and I am just tired of it all. 💔😢
Robert Kennedy was my one true " idol" , if I must use the term. and when he died, a large part of my heart, died with him. ---------------------WolfSky9, 74 y/o
In May of '68, Robert Kennedy came to Denver---------the old Coliseum---------And I, & 2 of my best friends, were there. it was packed to the limit. 15,000+ & all we did was clap., cheer, cry, & cheer some more. We knew he would end that terrible war. -----------it is a moment I will cherish, to my last breath.
I cried on election night , 1968---------because I knew 2 things for certain ----------the war would go on, & on, & on.-------------and the one man who could have stopped it had been killed, & no one else could / would, have the courage to stop the needless, senseless killing. Only Robert Kennedy could have done it then.----------Sadly, i was all too correct. ----------------------WolfSky9, 74 y/o
it was for me, that terrible summer of '67-----------when I began to seriously question just what it was that we were really doing in Vietnam. Were the people there really with us ? More to the point, were WE with them ? The killing worsened every day, but since I was in college, with my 1-Y student deferment , all I could do, is question-------& then in the fall, take it to the streets, by joining in my 1st demonstrations against that war. I supported the men fighting , by trying my best, to get them home. I was never, ever, against the men over there ! i-------we -----were fighting to get them home, damnit ! ------------it was a terrible time in America.
Just read it .i believe it's called the real Anthony Fauci. I myself was never anti vaccine . However i do not trust big pharma . They have been caught lying so many times. They make so so much money that it really doesn't matter when they get sued for harm .
I think one of the things that would have made Mr Robert Kennedy a phenomenal President was the fact that he had much more experience in different contexts and while gaining this experience there was no pressure on him to be President, it in many ways was a natural progression for him.
J. Edger Hoover was the mastermind behind the assassinations of Medger Evers and John F.Kennedy,SR in 1963 as well as the assassinations in 1968 of Martin Luther King,JR and Robert F.KennedySR J.Edger Hoover hated the Kennedy’s, Civil Rights leaders, native Americans, Asians & Pacific Islanders.
@mikejohnson: They were great! It took me a minute to catch on. After the first couple I thought, what? Then when they were advertising the NBA playoffs of 1993, it clicked. And the newscasters hyping their up coming broadcast for really old stuff.
How different would our countries be if these wonderful men had lived. They would have made things better for all of us. We loved the Kennedys in Canada. I remember my Dad crying when JFK was murdered. My Dad firmly believed it was an inside job. I didn't know what he meant then but I do now.
I was 8 wen he was killed I remember me and my brother was playing on the floor all the grown ups was standing above us saying it's over, it's all over, yrs later I was a 10th grader I asked my grandma why was they saying it was over wen he was kill she said because wen MLK was killed they put there truths in Bobby to help them the rest of the was with the civil rights movement that's what I remember
His assassination occurred about one week after our one and only relocation in the entirety of us growing up as minors. Our dad got the exact same job, on the same CV and all that, just one idiot of a town in place of another idiot of a town. Almost exactly one week into our new relocation. Watching an RFK documentary in 1983 my brother recalled sitting on the lounge room couch watching the TV relating that RFK had since died of his wounds.
Who were the persons who could "swing" the election? I didn't get that part. (When the Kennedy presidential election was close, there was mention that Bobby was going to contact someone or some group?)
It’s similar to 2020 and the electoral college, but I think you are talking about the conventions when the candidate to run for the party is picked. When the political parties hold their conventions every 4 years to decide who to nominate to run for president delegates are selected from each state in some way (maybe by registered voters for their party, not sure) are allowed to send a certain number of delegates to the conventions. The people running for president have been campaigning and running in state primaries, so everyone knows who they are and how they’re doing. There’s lots of speeches and hoopla and back room wheeling and dealing. The delegates from each state decide how to vote. With the conversation in the show they were tallying how many delegate votes Jack had and how many more he needed and from which states he could get them. Bobby said he looked down to the floor and saw Ted in the middle of the Wyoming delegation and that state cast all 12 of their votes for Kennedy. That’s the best I can explain what happens, based on the little I understand in general. I don’t really know how delegates are picked to go to the convention in each state. I’m guessing it’s people with money or political pull in their state. Back to my original statement about the 2020 election: all of us cast out votes; that’s called the popular vote. Then something called the electors have to vote in Washington to certify the way the state votes. I don’t know how electors are selected, but they are supposed to vote for the candidate the popular votes ( yours and mine), but sometimes in the past they haven’t. I guess they aren’t totally bound by law to do so; so it has happened that a candidate won in the state, but the electors voted different and the popular vote didn’t win the campaign. In 2020 there was a conspiracy to seat people, who were not legally the right electors in order to steal the election for number 45. It didn’t work because one man Mike Pence refused to go along with the criminal act. He was an honest man, but I don’t think he has what it takes to be president. The elector system is outdated and unnessary now due to computers now quickly counting individual votes.. The electoral college is obsolete and open to corruption and should be disbanded. There, that’s my limited understanding, incomplete, take on things.
All of Washington was for the Vietnam war in the beginning. Democrats. Republicans. Independents. Everyone. LBJ listened to his advisors, and he was left holding the bag on Vietnam. When all advisors eventually changed their mind, including RFK, Johnson was really in the shi77er. It took Nixon into his second term to reach a peace agreement, and Nixon wanted withdrawl (which he was consistently doing) with honor. JFK was smart and principled on the international stage, had he lived, it sure seems likely he'd have made changes a hell of a lot sooner, and would have made those choices even if all his advisors wanted to go the other way. Want proof? Study the Cuban Missile Crisis.
That commercial where the chick is at train station and is suffering from constipation. Should watch some of the commercials in this program. It will definitely give her the shits.
The country would be a much better place if he survived and won. Every GOP president with the exception of Eisenhower has been a disaster for the average citizen. What if Reagan lost, no Reaganomics, no outsourcing, no loss of pensions, no stagnated wages, no massive debt. What if Bush 2 lost, no illegal wars, we may have avoided 9-11 since Bush was warned and did nothing and no massive economic crash. What if Hillary won, no trump fascism, no lousy pandemic response, no massive debt from unwarranted tax cuts during an economic recovery already in process from Obama. What if.....
Unfortunately he exposed himself to danger by mixing With people close up Trying to be popular has its drawbacks! Concealed weapons lax security added to the trauma!
Just a technical. She is the aunt of the two individuals investigated in the 1975 deceasement case of a teenage female on someone's wooded estate, they being her brother's sons and thus being cousins to RFK's and Ethel's offsprings.
Not to mention their adulterous behavior from their father right down to Jack, Bobby, Ted, etc. Small wonder Rose prayed so much. What kind of “Catholics” behave like they do ?!
