Since the movie "Bobby" is going to be released, I created this montage on Robert F. Kennedy's Statement in Indianapolis, IN on Martin Luther King's Assassination, which he made on the night of April 4, 1968.
Amid the tragedy of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, an extraordinary moment in U.S. political history occurred as Robert F. Kennedy, younger brother of slain President John F. Kennedy, broke the news of King's death to a large gathering of African Americans in Indianapolis, India
na.
Most of the people hadn't even heard that Dr. King had been shot. I can imagine that they were stunned and some cried. But that evening Robert Kennedy spoke from his soul. The words rang in almost a prayerful manner.
Carved on the Robert Kennedy's marble gravestone are the words from Aeschylus
that he could recite from memory:
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
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Yesterday, for the 40th anniversary of RFK's assassination, Pete Hammil, a friend of RFK's, talked about this speech and the events of this day in Indianpolis. You wrote before that Kennedy "had no time to rehearse a speech". Kennedy DID have a speech prepared. Here is what happened: (continued o
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According to RFK's friend, Pete Hammil, that is what happened.