June 6th marked the 40th anniversary of RFK's assassination. However, being from England and born in the mid-eighties I was always more aware of JFK rather than RFK. After reading the impromptu speech by RFK in Indianapolis in regards to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, I was drawn to the heartfeltness and intelligence of the speech. RFK was a man who was not afraid to stand up for what he believed in and not shy away from helping those more disadvantaged them himself. These are qualities that we should all allow to flourish in ourselves.
I also, discovered the pictures by Paul Fusco 'RFK Funeral Train'. They were republished by the New York Times Magazine, the pictures were taken in one day on June 8th 1968 from inside the train that carried RFK's body from New York to Washington. The pictures are groundbreaking in capturing the way a single person is able to capture the hearts of a nation encompassing old and young, black and white, men and women, rich and poor, each photograph tells it's own story. Even after forty years the pictures are still able to move a person.
“My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered 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.” Senator Ted Kennedy.
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