Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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We flew him back to New York, where he was senator. and we waked them at St. Patrick's Cathedral to a huge crowd of people. And it was multicolored people, every color packing the sidewalks eight to 10 deep for the entire upper Manhattan. And we put them on a train and we took that train down from Penn Station to Union Station in Washington, DC. There were 2 million people lining the train tracks
The train trip that's usually two and a half hours took seven hours because the trains could not move because there were so many people on the tracks. They were a cross-section of the American public. There were Black people, whites. The train stations in Newark, in Philadelphia, in Baltimore were just jammed with people.
The train trip that's usually two and a half hours took seven hours because the trains could not move because there were so many people on the tracks. They were a cross-section of the American public. There were Black people, whites. The train stations in Newark, in Philadelphia, in Baltimore were just jammed with people.
The train trip that's usually two and a half hours took seven hours because the trains could not move because there were so many people on the tracks. They were a cross-section of the American public. There were Black people, whites. The train stations in Newark, in Philadelphia, in Baltimore were just jammed with people.
with black Americans singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and holding candles as we came through. My father's casket was in the caboose and I was riding at the end of the train or at some time in the different cars.
with black Americans singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and holding candles as we came through. My father's casket was in the caboose and I was riding at the end of the train or at some time in the different cars.
with black Americans singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and holding candles as we came through. My father's casket was in the caboose and I was riding at the end of the train or at some time in the different cars.
And there were every religion, there were rabbis, there were priests, there were nuns, there were men in military uniform, there were hippies in tie-dyed t-shirts, there were Boy Scouts. I remember a group of about seven or eight nuns standing in the middle of a baseball field in Delaware in the back of a yellow pickup truck. And there was just this incredible array.
And there were every religion, there were rabbis, there were priests, there were nuns, there were men in military uniform, there were hippies in tie-dyed t-shirts, there were Boy Scouts. I remember a group of about seven or eight nuns standing in the middle of a baseball field in Delaware in the back of a yellow pickup truck. And there was just this incredible array.
And there were every religion, there were rabbis, there were priests, there were nuns, there were men in military uniform, there were hippies in tie-dyed t-shirts, there were Boy Scouts. I remember a group of about seven or eight nuns standing in the middle of a baseball field in Delaware in the back of a yellow pickup truck. And there was just this incredible array.
It was a cross-section of the American experience. It was all the crowds that I had seen in all these political campaigns with my dad and my uncle since I was a little boy. It was a complete mixture of the American diaspora And four years later, most of the crowd was white because our population was. And they were holding signs, American flags, pray for us, Bobby. Goodbye, Bobby.
It was a cross-section of the American experience. It was all the crowds that I had seen in all these political campaigns with my dad and my uncle since I was a little boy. It was a complete mixture of the American diaspora And four years later, most of the crowd was white because our population was. And they were holding signs, American flags, pray for us, Bobby. Goodbye, Bobby.
It was a cross-section of the American experience. It was all the crowds that I had seen in all these political campaigns with my dad and my uncle since I was a little boy. It was a complete mixture of the American diaspora And four years later, most of the crowd was white because our population was. And they were holding signs, American flags, pray for us, Bobby. Goodbye, Bobby.
You know, holding the babies up. We got to Penn Station and Union Station in Washington. President Johnson met us. We took my father up the hill. Arlington, we passed them all. And at that time, the Poor People's Campaign, which had been organized, conceived by my father, organized by Martin Luther King and Marian Wright Edelman, and it was thousands of poor men from all over the country.
You know, holding the babies up. We got to Penn Station and Union Station in Washington. President Johnson met us. We took my father up the hill. Arlington, we passed them all. And at that time, the Poor People's Campaign, which had been organized, conceived by my father, organized by Martin Luther King and Marian Wright Edelman, and it was thousands of poor men from all over the country.
You know, holding the babies up. We got to Penn Station and Union Station in Washington. President Johnson met us. We took my father up the hill. Arlington, we passed them all. And at that time, the Poor People's Campaign, which had been organized, conceived by my father, organized by Martin Luther King and Marian Wright Edelman, and it was thousands of poor men from all over the country.
They're trying to create a political movement for poor people. living in tents and shanties and they all came to the sidewalk, they bowed their head and they held their hats against their chests as we went up the hill to Arlington to bury my father next to his brother. And four years later, I was in college And I was looking at demographic data from the 1972 campaigns. That was in 1968.
They're trying to create a political movement for poor people. living in tents and shanties and they all came to the sidewalk, they bowed their head and they held their hats against their chests as we went up the hill to Arlington to bury my father next to his brother. And four years later, I was in college And I was looking at demographic data from the 1972 campaigns. That was in 1968.
They're trying to create a political movement for poor people. living in tents and shanties and they all came to the sidewalk, they bowed their head and they held their hats against their chests as we went up the hill to Arlington to bury my father next to his brother. And four years later, I was in college And I was looking at demographic data from the 1972 campaigns. That was in 1968.
My dad was killed in the middle of that campaign. Four years later, the vast majority of those white voters between Baltimore and or between Wilmington and Washington, who had supported my father strongly, Four years later, the vast majority of them were voting not for George McGovern, who was aligned with my father on most issues, but for George Wallace, who was diametrically opposed.