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In memoriam: 40 years since the assassination of Bobby Kennedy

I was one year old the year Martin Luther King, Jr and Bobby Kennedy were shot. One of my favourite records as a child, Tom Clay's 'What the Word Needs Now/Abraham, Martin, and John' remembers them both, along with John F Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968 and died on June 6th, making it 40 years to the day since his death.



From Ted Kennedy's euology, as included on the record:

'My brother need not be idealised or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.'

It's all any of us can do.

Forty years ago

Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

U2 Pride (In the Name of Love):


Despite the tarnish of plagiarism issues and infidelity accusations, Martin Luther King, Jr was a remarkable figure whose spirit and dreams may hopefully one day be realised. Unfortunately, that time has not yet come.

A nice opinion piece:

Four decades later, urban black poor are worse off