soulless ones.
Posted on 06/05/2007 9:38:26 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
1968 - Robert F. Kennedy shot
At 12:50 a.m. PDT, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a presidential candidate, is shot three times in a hail of gunfire in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Five others were wounded. The senator had just completed a speech celebrating his victory in the California presidential primary. The shooter, Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, had a smoking .22 revolver wrested from his grip and was promptly arrested. Kennedy, critically wounded, was rushed to the hospital, where he fought for his life in the next 24 hours. On the morning of June 6, he died. He was 42 years old.
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I watched the re-running of From the Earth to the Moon on the Science channel...(originally run on HBO in 1998).
the episode was called 1968.
So much came down that year.....it was a never ending mess, set in motion, for the most part, by LBJ.
one scene depicted the death of RFK.
the end depicted the Christmas orbiting of the Moon in Apollo 8, by Borman, Lovell and Anders. On Christmas eve they read from the Bible and wished everyone on the earth a Merry Christmas. It brought a tear watching the show, as it did to me in 1968 when it actually happened.
The flight to the moon that saved 1968.
I know that his isn't the subject of this thread, but couldn't help adding to what you said. I had a friend (not even a dating relationship) who cut me off because we didn't agree on politics. Seems to be a liberal thing: I know of no conservatives who act that way.
I fell asleep in front of the TV. When I began to hear the words "Kennedy shot" I thought I was reliving November 1963.
Actually, he was crooked but in an honest way. JFK and Bobby got the Mafia to help steal the Presidential election, then they turned on the Mafia with hearings and investigations.
The karmic part of the assassination was that without Ted Kennedy’s screwing up immigration laws, his brother would not have been assassinated - Teddy put through the 1965 immigration bill that let turd worlders into America - like Sirhan Sirhan.
You quoted from Wikipedia to dispell an Islamofacinaziwhatever rant? Are you going to let simple facts get in the way of whipping up another mindless frenzy?!?
I'm just being honest, plus you are missing the difference. The Rev Falwell was never in a position of (governmental) power over other people, while RFK choose to seek that power. Nobody was ever under Falwell's thumb, but Bobby lived for control over others.
There is no way I could have ever dated, much less married a liberal.
It’s surprising they even mention who clipped him.
As a wise Freeper said (I don't recall their name) perhaps Ted is still around to show us.
They double-crossed the mob, tried to kill Fidel, angered the Russians, slept with all sorts of different women - some married to powerful men. The list of suspects in the Kennedy assassinations should be quite lenghty.
Oh, I'm with you on that one. As I said, this wasn't even a dating relationship, let alone one that might have led to marriage.
BTW, I'm grateful that my conservative wife didn't take that approach. When we met, and even during the early years of our marriage, I considered myself liberal.
soulless ones.
I remember that well too, as well as the Kennedy assassination and the King assassination two months earlier. 1968 was certainly a tumultuous year. God Bless Borman, Lovell, and Anders.
He was Christian, as were a number of the terrorists of the early 70s. Sirhan was a loner, but the PFLP was a Christian founded terrorist group to be reckoned with, a PLO member, responsible for a large number of hijackings and airport attacks in the late 60s and 70s. Suicide bombing didn't seem to catch on with them.
JFK would have been a Reagan Democrat.
Sorry, I don't ever think it's good to see a candidte murdered.
‘My God, thirty nine years ago....imagine....I remember it like it happened yesterday, still sends shivers down my spine, wonder what this country would be like now if Jack and Bobby lived.............’
Two geopolitical virgins, the older of which damn near blew the world up twice, was heavily drugged, and carrying on a half dozen affairs at the same time....the younger of which its been said despised anyone that was brighter than he (JFK allegedly said it twice)?
Sorry, THAT thought sends shivers up my spine. They were the two ‘genius’s’ that got us heavily into Vietnam.
No thanks, we’re lucky we survived the Kennedy ‘era’.
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