The Essence of Compassion - Robert F. Kennedy in 1968
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2018
- This is a video reflecting the optimism and compassion that sparked America during Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign.
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OH …. How we need RFK .. NOW!!!!’!!!!!!!!!!!!!’…. Continue to RIP my brother🙏🏿
his son is running! Kennedy 24🍀💗🍀
BOBBY JR/TULSI 24
@@mariekuijkenhistoricallyaw2598 amazing that he is 70 already
Man , Bobby was the real deal (so was Jack). He really cared. And he was loved. Our country would be in so much better shape had he been allowed to complete his work.
I agree 100%. I think his son would be too.
Absolutely they both were in the legitimate article and they both meant what they said
Amen.
Were they not involved in the same stuff as Hoffa and yet tried to ruin him?
@@BitOfUltraviolenceWhen comes power battles of egos always happened
I was sixteen years old when Bobby was murdered. He was my last great political hero. A true statesman. Robert Kennedy embodied the hopes and aspirations I had for my country, and for the world.
The same for me ❤
Every time I see you Robert Kennedy talk I cry. I know how important he was.
His son is running in 2024
A brilliant compassionate man of the people, he thought of the people and not himself, he only wanted good and freedom for all. R.I.P. Bobby. ❤❤🙏🙏
He respected mankind.
Oh Bobby - how we need you now.
Amen and amen!!!
Every man, woman, and child should see this! This is what true love and compassion looks like and this is what we should aim for!!
Yes!
Whenever I need inspiration, I listen to the speeches of Jack and Bobby!!!!!
Amen to that!
Jay Rosen Agreed! Agreed and agreed! Beautiful and compassionate with unprecedented and profound love on the behalf of RFK. I will never forget him, you can quote me on that.
Me too! They are role models!
He would've been proved better than JFK
For inspiration, I make listening to the speeches of Jack and Bobby a hobby
I cry through every video❤ A True HERO❤
We had such hope and it was taken from us😢
To see the Kennedy who was happy in the wings standing center stage totally committed to what he believed in is inspiring.
Even Giancana admitted Bobby must have had guts to walk around without protection.
An assassin may have killed him, but the bastard never made him afraid.
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Wow, what a diffrent time, different men. He was such a decent man.
My hero, my inspiration, my idol- a man no words can describe, with a profound heart and beautiful compassion like no other. Easily the best person of his time and since. I will never forget him nor should the nation. #herolikenoother
Coco Taveras, You said it as well as I could have, my friend. Thank you.
He was my hero...we've never seen the likes of him since.
And never will again.
What a human being! Once at st francis church in hyannis where it was hot and standing room only someone passed hot and he came through the outside of well wishers to go for water! The attorney general of the USA
Just the beginning of us knowing who he was....will never forget!
The youth of the world today know the faces and names of the Kardashians, and are scrambling to their deaths to see rappers at concerts. The youth of the world today need to hear the voice of Bobby Kennedy, and to see his example and never be afraid to be good boys, good girls, and good men and good women.
What a beautiful person, just so amazing.
He was a great man. Who wanted to take care of his citizens 🙏
Worked hard for him then and miss him more. We need him now more then ever.
His son is running ❤ #kennedy2024
RFK absolutely would have been nominated in Chicago in 1968, and he would've beat Nixon. I was a teenager then, and RFK was a Rock Star
PEOPLE JUST LOVED BOBBY KENNEDY BECAUSE HE GAVE LOVE HOPE AND UNITY .
And peace and reconciliation.
Conrad Sunkiojack A person beyond all others of his time and since. A man with a profound love and an admirable heart for all others- something so beautiful and so endearing this man easily is better than any other human being you could choose- EASILY!
The assassination of RFK was even more tragic than that of JFK
In a way your are right. However, it is hard to say. I was 18 years and living in my native Denmark when JFK was shot, my friends and I spend the next 4 days glued to the television just like Americans did. We had a hard time comprehend what had happened. By the time RFK was shot, I was living in Connecticut as an au pair, and coming just a few month after the MLK assassination, it was a tremendous chock, and because many people in my age group had put their hope on RFK it was very devastating. All 3 assassinations was a tragedy, and one can only imagine what the world would have looked like had even 1 of them lived, let alone all 3. Too painful to contemplate.
It's wrong of you to compare.
@@paulalexandermanley6479 I think it is only natural to compare actually. They were the two most famous, consequential and history altering Assassinations of the 20th century. And when I say "more tragic" I ment in terms of what it meant for the country. Bobby was our last hope to get back what was ours, the American peoples! A coup de ta occurred on November 22, 1963. The shadow government or deep state, whatever you want to call it, murdered our rightfully elected President who made decisions on what was best for our country and its citizens and replaced him with a "selected" globalist president who instead of making decisions on what's best for the citizens of the United States, he made decisions by what would best serve the nwo and military industrial complex! Bobby entered the race in '68 to try and get back what was rightfully his family's, but more importantly to get back what belonged to the American people! He knew he was the only one who could do it, and he also knew that they would try to do to him what they did to his brother, but he had to try so that the country might be saved. Senator Robert Francis Kennedy died at the hands of an assassin's bullet minutes after winning the crucial California democratic primary on June 6th, 1968. He was 42 years old and left behind his wife Ethel and 11 children. Bobby was our last hope to take our presidency and our country back. That is why I believe the RFK Assassination was more tragic. It left the entire United States hopeless
One of the men i aspire to be like. I know i will not come close, but i will always try.
None of us will come close, for he is such a good, genuine person who actually cared about others unlike most politicians and humans. Most people run for the presidency based on ambition and the wants of power but he ran because he wanted to fix a shattered America- Nixon ran for the power, McCarthy did not have the same vision and I do not think he genuinely cared about people like Robert Francis Kennedy, Humphrey as well. No one in that election comes close to him- NONE, yet why him? Why him?
Do it, we need more men in the world like this - REAL men. The only downfall is that God tends to take them away from us too soon.
@@AkashaMedea777 Not God and please do not ever say that again, bad people did fueled with bad hearts and intentions. God is pure, loving, and caring for all others and the world in which he created all.
@@cocotaveras8975 Oh don't get me into ontological debate hunni. I know what you mean, yet who really controls it when we look at the bigger picture.
Let's do the best we can, to be as genuine and as heartfelt!
Unity, Compassion, Passion brings love stability and wealth. This formula never changes. Simply put. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🌞🌞🌞🌞
bobby will never be,forgotten.
The most inspirational American politician of all time 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Yessssss without a doubt ❤
I have studied the JFK administration and the assassination since 1988. I was only 17 then, but it lead me down a path that I never expected. I discovered some things about my country that I was appalled about but I also discovered my great admiration for both John and Bobby Kennedy. Men who dared to make America a better country and because of this were murdered by men who were committed to keeping the US a world power and definitely not for good. As much as I believed that John was a great president, I believe Bobby would have even outshined him. America and the world was robbed of a wonderful leader for world peace on June 4, 1968.
@@lisaroan1212 Thank you for these words. As you can imagine I completely agree. The Kennedys stood for hope 🇺🇸❤
RFK Jr is the same
No he's not!!! His platform advocates for fascist ideology. He might be running as a democrat but he talks like a MAGA cultist! @@Photologistic
We need this today.
What a beautiful, amazing person who genuinely cared about the hardships others endured and actively tried to alleviate their sufferings. Like no one else did at that time, he did it and he did it out of the kindness of his own heart, just amazing NEVER FORGET HIM PLEASE.
The day Robert Kennedy died, so did America.
This should be made mandatory viewing!
I am a retired teacher/tutor and I always made RFK a big part of the curriculum; when youtube became a part of things, it was wonderful to be able to share moments and speeches with students from 5th grade through college. Kids really 'get' it, much more than adults give them credit for. Interestingly, I was able to create lesson plans not only for Social Studies, but English AND in Drama Club and Regional Speech competitions. One of my 10th graders took the top prize for giving the Menace of Violence Speech!
What a beautiful spirit 🙏
I wish I was alive at the time Bobby was still alive and making amazing changes in the world.
I never wanted to get into politics until I heard RFK. Now the time is come again to seek a newer world.
Bulbafett90 Well said. We need more people like him--people with love in their hearts and sincerity of their conscious. He's one of a kind in terms of people in places of political power and that needs to change!
I have great respect for these two brothers, JFK and and RFK for what they committed themselves to doing, that is, uniting the white and the black in the US. Sad to know that both were killed for their divine cause, but this is what makes them live on in the hearts of many and their words echo throughout the time. May they, along with Martin Luther King and the likes, rest in peace...
Well said!
Ferry Antoni, I agree! Well said…
He can walk with a king and have virtue and still have the common touch. Rest in peace, my friend. We sure miss you.
These were the revered men that made this country great
This man helped me believe we could live together peacefully, supporting one another. That was my dream! What politician today makes you feel this way when they speak?
His son.
@@slampersand3145 ❣
If its your dream join the political party of your choice ,and live out that dreamm
The hero of my life and great source of inspiration for me, God bless Bobby
Alessia Salzano For me as well!
Me too 😢
Alessia Salzano, I was almost 17 when he was assassinated. He was my hero, and I have never gotten over his death. When I look at the condition our country is in today, I have to wonder “What might have been”…
Auch ich war fast 17, und sein Tod erschütterte mich so sehr, dass ich befürchtete, meinen Schulabschluss nicht zu schaffen ! Ich bin im Osten Deutschlands aufgewachsen und wir bekamen wenig Informationen. Trotzdem war Bobby auch für uns eine große Hoffnung.Ich bitte euch: Vergesst ihn niemals,er war ein außergewöhnlicher Mensch !!!
That era, I was early teens. Seen alot, remember alot, learned alot. We need another John F.K. & Bobby Kennedy to make America Great Again.
Sorry man. The Bushes, Johnsons and the Hoovers are waiting for such with fully loaded weapons. No chance, Never.
I hope too, but do you think we will ever have anyone else like the brothers Kennedy?
Absolutely...100%
@@martysmith2159 Never, we had our John and Robert Kennedy and the likes of them will never, ever be seen again.
Someone will come eventually
Greatest president who never was ✌
What a great R.F.K. montage!
Sean Lawlor Nelson Ikr! I hope they make more and find new previously undiscovered footage! This man was a beautiful, amazing person who genuinely cared about the hardships others endured and actively tried to alleviate their sufferings. Like no one else did at that time, he did it and he did it out of the kindness of his own heart, just amazing WE CAN NEVER FORGET HIM and I know for a fact I won't. I won't.
I was 10 when he died also. RFK's shadow forever looms over all of the progressive soldiers that came after him. The great Liberal who was uncomfortable with liberalism who was also a hawk with common sense learned from his own failures. Bobby Kennedy was a man who grew into a legend in the last part of his life. He showed we all can grow.
I was 14 when Bobby was assonated. I still didn't know that much. As I got older I learned so much about this great young man. Many of us saw him as our last hope. Sadly enough, I think we're right.
@@martysmith2159 I agree with you. I was 16 years old when Senator Kennedy was assassinated. I am now approaching 70. We lost SO much with the assassinations of President Kennedy, MLK, Jr., and Senator Robert Kennedy. I think that our country has been sliding downhill since then. I really worry about my children’s future…
He had me at these are my people! I wasn’t even old enough to talk at that time. ☘️
I was four years old and we were at Grandmas, then the news came on TV that he had been shot.
I was too young to know who he was but I remember my Uncle saying to my Father: "Just Like His Brother".
My Mother was upset as she always liked Bobby, even more than JFK.
Years later I saw a TV documentary and recognized the footage.
A terrible tragedy for his family.
What a good man shot down in the prime if his life. Truly a sad loss for humanity.
A beautiful human being ✌️💖
I‘m 63…Bobby disareared as I was nearly 10 ..I still miss that Boy..😢
Robert was such a great face as his bro Jack
Who could dislike this?!!
Rfk was the man
Now we can elect his son. @teamkennedy24
Now my God, such a young and sweet Being in this world, your kindness and tenderness touches our hearts, such is your commitment to humanitarian and just causes, and the essence of all life and all causes. What a bright and kind family. It is impossible not to identify with its causes, they are those of all men and women.
heres with a good heart. We can't be anything better, if we don't have our neighbor good and happy, we are an element, we are the continuity of the eternal in infinite movement, and the absence of full happiness is understandable when, and while, we are all not vibrating in the same range of joy and happiness, because we are all One, even with individual souls. I feel grateful and happy to have these videos today to share, because it seems like just a few moments ago, since the vibration of feelings and projects are still so vivid and with enough power to reach us, touch us, and transform us, inspire and motivate. Be in your most beautiful and happy star and home of stellar origin.🙏🙌💝🌟🌹🤲
Once upon a time, leaders would tell the truth. We lost all those great men in the 60's. JFK, Martin Luther King, RFK, Malcom X, and so many more. Today everything is a lie.
RFK estas en mi Corazón . Dios te , tenga en su Gloria.Amen.
Amen to all the previous comments, but when a person fight for the truth, or for bettering the world ur brains get blown away, WHY???? is that a crime? Robert and Jack indeed died for there country, may ur souls be in Eternal peace 😇😇😇😇😇😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Heavenly Father, bless & protect the rest of the Kennedy family, we need more of them ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I've never seen a politician so universally loved by all races of people, black people, white people etc he must of been a very inspiring man
Black folks adored RFK, you notice the black boy clinging on to Bobby.🇺🇸
WE MISS HIM SO
WHO ELSE COULD QUOTE AESCHYLOUS& CARE FOR THE PEOPLE SO DEARLY?
All these people got to shake the hand that shook the world,
Rest in peace and rise in Glory, Bobby
it's really sad!!
Great Family Kennedy
I would Super Like this if I could. Thank you for uploading this.
Jaymin Patel Agreed. What a beautiful and compassion man the likes of which was unprecedented and we will never see again. This is the type of man I would rally behind and fight for!
The establishment snuffed him out.. CIA FBI . HE WAS A GREAT MAN. USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸
Rip JFK and RFK
Beautiful!
Yes, yes he is.
The real deal - a smart and hard-working guy who actually cared about people, especially those who were poor and disenfranchised and who needed help the most. The opposite of Trump in every way. The world lost out when we lost Bobby.
You’re wrong. Try watching from the beginning of President Trump. He was great friends with John John. They all believed the same.
Mrs Kennedy You are my hero! Thank You!
How did we end up with where we are now with our current candidates for president? His son is our only hope! RFK Jr. 2024!
greatest president we never had
That is what I am doing right now. Thanks.
just playing love you just playing love you and miss you terribly especially now more than ever Bobby Kennedy
"There was a man..."
That's all him with words very smart man I wish I could of been in them years
♥ 🌹
If you haven't you should watch the RFK video entitled "Robert Kennedy on GDP". Amazing how relevant it still is today, even more so and a reminder as to why we need to vote in those that want to give us back our Representative Democracy. What we now have is an Oligarchy and Plutocracy and all they care about is the GDP!
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I could have been stimulated in my political life by someone else - I was unable to care for another politician in 1968.
rest in peace to that brave man. When there's true goodness in the world the forces of evil conspire with all their devilish means to destroy the innocent, the good, and all that leads to the building of humanity. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Big man...jt is a fraite pleasure to fino you...
So do I !
I’m so sorry Ethel has missed him so long
We Can NEVER FORGET
What could have been!
What do you mean? He didnt need the presidency he was already great so what do you mean what could have been? You should mean what he already was because in a way in our hearts and minds he was already a president in that he could bring people together and bring love, hope and reconciliation because he was already great the presidency would have given him more abilities and powers to effect greater change but in many aspects he already did bring about many great changes. Basically, what I am trying to say is don't be sad because of what he already did things that already made him grea without even needing to win the presidency. Social chages/reforms, greater highlight on what the poor is going through, he put a spotlight on the bad conditions farmers go through, and all the things he did as attorney general beating the mafia. He already was great, not what could have been but for what he will always be a great person who in our hearts won the presidency before he even declared his candidacy.
Not what could have been, he already had it what we lost!! Is what is sad. But he accomplished so much we should celebrate his life and not mourn his death.
@@cocotaveras8975 What MORE would have been accomplished, had he not been shot.
Yes, the social reforms had begun, but GREAT STRIDES, GREATER ACCOMPLISHMENTS were yet to be achieved. America was robbed. Yes, we continue to strive. There were underlying evil forces responsible for his assassination, you can be sure. "They" did not want the conspiracy behind JFK's assassination to be exposed. He was a marked man, just like his brother. Tremendous loss for this nation
Sandra Sharp We can always do better, and I believe he would have helped us get there.
Coco Taveras, There is no need to attack. When I look at the condition that our country is in today, I think the same thing - what could have been? If you have not noticed the slow, but steady decline of our nation since the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK in the 1960’s, then there is nothing more I can say.
I Literally just realized why my dad always made a big deal and talked so much abt the Kennedys especially now with all these idiotic politicians man were in dyrie need of some real politicians with hearts man. Shits sad
Robert Kennedy aurait été un grand président des Etats Unis.
Fréderic Lecomte Yes. Yes but he already was. He already was. The race was just a a formality, he won as soon as he declared his bid.
@@cocotaveras8975 hubert humphrey was ahead of bobby kennedy when he died. The chances are president johnson would have used his influence to ensure humphrey got it had bobby lived.
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The Last Hero
Lovely
Can you imagine if he would have won?????
He would have been a good President. We can only surmise or imagine what he might have been if he wouldn't get shot. I get mistaken for one of his relatives. I don't know that I am, but what I do know is that along with the honor comes the insight into the reality of being a Kennedy. The Kennedys presented us with insight into the reality of both the Presidency and the reality of the Civil Rights issue. Rumors have that I also had a girlfriend killed by an assassin and as a result that puts me to the reality and makes me have to present the insight into the reality of being a Kennedy. I claim and have room to claim that nobody outside the Kennedy family has a closer insight into the reality of being a Kennedy than myself. Another assassination victim whose last name is King brought me to it. When it happened in 1991 my mom said "So in other words, the slug hit home for you", and I said, "Yes. The slug hit home. It's November 22, 1963, all over again and this time Bobby has nobody to stand by him". That was in response to another King assassination in 1991.
And remember...vote BERNIE in 2020....RIP RFK
I am starting a campaign to add him into 270 to win
For free
He would have changed the world.
But the establishment couldn't accept it.🤔
The good old days.
They are the only politicians who look like they want to shake people's hands when they are out in the crowds. Bobby Jnr is the same. The family that should, theoretically, fear crowds the most are one with the crowds.
I wrote this poem about Robert Kennedy:
AND I HAVE BEEN IN LOVE WITH NIGHT EVER SINCE YOU DIED
by
David Gottfried
"When he shall die take him and cut him out into stars and he shall make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."
Robert Kennedy, quoting from Romeo and Juliet at the 1964 Democratic Convention
Lead me into war Bobby Kennedy
Lead me into that holiest of wars
Crashing into the gates of hell bloody and beautiful on a
Night satin ride of hating love
Like fires foresting through the hills and dales
In every mournful slum screaming for your sun.
The son of god
Of Jesus you were
You were Jesus Bobby Kennedy
And I have been in love with night ever since you died
I want to die with you Bobby Kennedy.
Caring not for the brain dead ways that they call calm,
I want to grab onto your car and never let go.
Going faster, faster as the spring sweeps its storms,
As Lucy's vengeful diamonds rain Tet's fire
On all our Souths of rice and cotton.
As the teaming, screaming colored kids dance in your waves
Calling sweetly, meekly, cryingly,
We loved you Bobby Kennedy
Of Caesar of Chavez of my Mark Antony
Of the Hot Roman Streets blinding the Night.
That merry mad catholic cacophony,
of Irish and Latins and Jews with a Hebrew Soul.
Of Subways singing all the way to Harlem and Nathan's
and Coney Island.
Of Knishes and Pizzas and Hot Dogs,
and we hope we didn't give you indigestion.
We loved you Bobby Kennedy
Of all the Strikes and Smokestacks of Aunt Rose
and Uncle Lou
Of all the tears of Jersey towns huddling to your death train
Of the Cities of the Summer streaming to your sight
Of the sad sooted buildings billowing with your people
Of West Side Story and all the Marias who cried for you
Of how your brother, too, was killed by a white man
Of the aching heart that knows it is too coarse a thing to heal.
That cannot heal until it caresses you and tells you
We loved you Bobby Kennedy
Our Prince
Our knight
In Shining White Armour
Whose Golden Hair Glistened in the Sun
Whose sweet emanations gleamed like
Jackie's jewels
Our Sergeant Pepper careening on California waves,
You are John Lennon, you are Lord Byron
Shouting Sonnets at Chillon.
You are the man whom every good man wanted to be.
We loved you Bobby Kennedy
Can you imagine Trump saying intelligent things!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. R.I.P. Bobby.
Can you imagine Dems being honest and not corrupt? Me neither
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Sincerity, compassion and wisdom coupled with a vigorous spirit that was a fire of hope; not in our body politic today.
Let us consider Bobby Jr as the apple dosen't fall far from the tree.
I'm sad...