Click on the image above and see a remarkable speech: Senator Robert F. Kennedy breaking the news to a mostly black crowd in March 1968 that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated. RFK’s unscripted message about what the U.S. could be is as powerful now as it was then.
This You Tube clip ends with a radio interview being done three months later as RFK walked across a kitchen after winning the California Democratic Presidential primary…and was shot. It has a powerful photo montage. There are Italian subtitles on this clip. Watch it until the end. His message to the crowd that night in March 1968 is an enduring one.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.