Today, forty years ago, Robert F. Kennedy was shot. He would die the following morning. This assassination has recently come back to our attention, with Mrs. Clinton bringing it up at an ill hour. Yet, we must remember the assassination Robert F. Kennedy, as Americans, not just liberals. When he was killed it seemed as if the soul of America had been bleed from it. This country on the very verge of hope, watched the dream shatter before their eyes.
I think so many remember his speech on April 4, 1968 announcing the assassination of Martin Luther King. He is attributed with single-handedly stopping a race riot in Indianapolis. The speech given there was simple and brief, yet, deeply moving. It was a heart-spoken honesty. He helped heal wounds and calmed what could have become a storm. Maybe, given the chance, he would have healed a nation. We can never know.
I think he summed up every liberal belief in his last line: "...and make gentle the life of this world."
I cannot be a biographer, but I can offer these snippets of what was once a man. But still his great spirit lives on. I think this day is of quiet remembrance of what once was and could be, but is not lost.
As Robert's Brother Ted Kennedy Eulogized:
"Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw
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