A nice remembrance from Jeff Greenfield on Robert Kennedy, 40 years after his shocking death: CBS News In Memory of Bobby.
As RFK was before my time, it makes me sad and angry that I never got the chance to see what he could've accomplished had he continued on.
Veteran CBS News correspondent Roger Mudd said, "There was about Robert Kennedy a perpetual sense of outrage. As a reporter, it was something to behold."
"He had the ability to speak out of his soul, out of his gut," said Congressman John Lewis, D-Ga., "and people believed in him."
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But after John F. Kennedy's death in 1963, as a war in Vietnam and racial unrest darkened the national mood, something seemed to change or shift in Robert Kennedy.
The freshman Senator from New York was becoming a very different kind of politician, looking at America with a radically original mind.
"Robert Kennedy always had an instinct for the outsider," said Peter Edelman, who was one of Kennedy's key Senate aides. "And it turned out that what he really cared about was people all over this world who don't have a fair shake."
"He saw the anguish," said Lewis, who was a young civil rights worker when he first met Kennedy. "He saw the predicament that black people, that poor people were faced with. And he made a commitment to do something about it, not just as the attorney general. Not just as Senator Kennedy for the presidency. But as a human being."
UPDATE: Time Magazine informs me of their online collection of rare and unpublished photographs of RFK from Life Magazine. Definitely scan through 'em.
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