It is June 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel LA and RFK is giving a speech after winning the California primary when shots rang out……
Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He died a day later.
Source: Bobby Kennedy is assassinated – Jun 05, 1968 – HISTORY.com
From time to time I like to throw a ‘what if’ at my readers…..this is one that was written almost 20 years ago about the assassination of RFK and what could have happened if he had not died…..
It is one of history’s great “what ifs.” What if Robert Kennedy had not been assassinated 40 years ago and gone on to become president of the United States? It’s safe to say that his presidency would have followed a different course from that of Richard Nixon. And it may just be that American politics would not be endlessly refighting the 1960s. Kennedy was a less polarizing figure than Nixon, who exploited the divisions that have now hardened into Red States and Blue States. But Kennedy himself was a complex and mercurial figure, so all we can really do is speculate. It’s an intriguing guessing game—if one does not get too dreamy about the mythology of RFK.
Source: What If Bobby Kennedy Had Become President?
Any ideas?
“And corruption is stranglin’ the land. The police force is watching the people and the people just can’t understand. We don’t know how to mind our own business, ’cause the whole world’s got to be just like us. Now we are fighting a war over there but no matter who’s the winner we can’t pay the cost.”
Steppenwolf Monster, 1969.
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& some things do not change….
The media has always been a propaganda arm of the military……and it will remain so….good day how are you? chuq
Could be better….I just have an awful feeling that things are gonna get a lot worse….meanwhile..London Bridge/Borough Market Incident: What’s Going On? https://shar.es/1Rk9M6 via @grtvnews
good day to you chuq…..she said trying to smile…I go there every tues….reminds me of a nursery rhyme..London bridge is falling down…repeat..
Thanx to the media more will happen….sorry to say…chuq
I’m not sure we’d be in a better World position than we are right now but I think this Country would have been much better off had RFK won the election and I believe he probably would have. We certainly would not have had the disgrace of a President resigning due to malfeasance.
~~dru~~
Well at least not until now and NOW may not have come to be if he hadn’t died.
Our society would be in a better place….chuq
“if one does not get too dreamy about the mythology of RFK. ” Yes this is true but he was there every moment of Cuban Missile Crisis so he had war room experience like few others. As AG really fought for black civil rights and prosecuted race crimes. The mythology of JFK – it amazes me the JFK idolizers. A very corrupt man in his personal life . Claude Pepper New Dealer of Florida would have been dem nominee in 1960 but JFK father paid for smear campaign, labelled him a commie , supported Smathers and Pepper lost his senate seat. But he then was elected to the House repeatedly for decades later.
Hoe would have done anything to get Jack into the WH….anything. chuq
I see hoe is typo for he but actually they are a bunch of hoes (ghetto for whore). .
Yep….typing before coffee….LOL chuq
What-ifs are always good for speculation. The Kennedy clan were marked from the start. I doubt he would ever have been ‘allowed’ to become president.
Best wishes, Pete.
It was a snake bite group….LOL chuq