Wow, good story. Those were bad times for America I mean look at JFK'S speaches compared to George Bush....makes you wonder where America could have gone with the Kennedy brothers.
me and Bobby Kennedy
by Gregor 17 Replies latest jw experiences
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Dagney
Gregor, nice story. Thank you for sharing it.
And willyloman, did you guys know each other? I was just in Santa Barbara over the weekend. I lived south of there during those years.
Those were some years...I feel like what hillary said:
We live in perilous, glorious times, perhaps due to the rapidity in social and technological change that is taking place as we speak. I am however, pleased to have seen the world in black and white rather than computer enhanced. The comparisons are inspiring.
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undercover
I was too young to remember JFK's assisisation or MLK's.
But when RFK was killed, I remember seeing all the news about it. But I was still young and didn't understand why someone wanted to kill him...he wasn't a president. At that age I associated all assisinations with presidents and other world leaders.
But even at that young, naive age, I can remember that tthere seemed to be a sense of despair or anquish over the last great hope for the nation dying. Not that I understood all of it, it was just a feeling that even at that age, I was able to grasp.
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willyloman
Dagney: No, gregor and I have never met (as far as know). I was not a dub in those days.
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AK - Jeff
The '60s were momentous times.
JFK, RFK and Martin. But also Buzz and Neal, and some boys from Liverpool, a place called Woodstock, and a Lady named Janis. Bands with surreal names, and poly suits. A gaze on a July night at a moon that had two men parked there. And a bloody affair in SE Asia abandoned by the French and engaged by the Americans. James Bond, and a real cold war. And moon pies as big as the moon. Cokes in little green bottles, and change back from your dollar at a new fangled restaurant chain called McDonald's.
Wow! What a trip down memory lane you have started for me. The world was never the same after we lost the boys from Hyannis, that's for sure.
Jeff
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chickpea
i know to some extent that slight brush with history, gregor....
and how it can have a lingering tinge on perspective....the day before JFK was assassinated, he was in a motorcade
that drove thru san antonio, and i was one of the hundreds of
catholic parochial school kids lining roosevelt avenue as he zipped by
on a warm and sunny autumn day.... my lingering impression, as a 2nd grader,
was how red his hair looked in the sunlight.....the next day, the bell that ended recess rang early and as we were assembled
in our rows and ranks, the nuns were visibly distraught as they led us into the church,
st. cecelia's, to pray for the fallen president....
several days later i was in our living room watching with my mother
as jack ruby pushed a gun into oswald's abdomen and murdered him
on live, black and white television....to this day, i wonder what would have been possible had history been otherwise
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dogisgod
Had some people on my plane a few years ago and one guy was reading a book on Teddy Kennedy. I asked him if it was good and he said much better than the subject. I then said that I had always envied that Caroline had that pony Maccaroni and I wondered what ever happened to that horse. This other woman said that horse had been glue for years. She then told me this story that her dad had been the milkman to the Kennedy compound and surrounding area. She used to ride that pony when she was with her dad. He had keys to RFKs house and RFK treated him like one of the family. After RFK decided to run for Pres the milkman walked into the kitchen to put the milk in the fridge (lots and lots of milk for that family) and Ethel came in and he said, "Hi Ethel". She responded cooly that from now on he would address her as Mrs. Kennedy. He kept a low profile after that and one day Bobby saw him and came over asking why he hadn't seen him around lately and so the milkman told him what Ethel said. Bobby told him to wait there. When he came back he had Ethel with him and he made her apologize for what she said.
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willyloman
Interesting story, dog. My favorite quote from RFK is pinned to my bulletin board in my office. It reads:
"Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."