Probably none but it is worth remembering that the main reason why his ovation was so long is because he was the brother of a beloved president who had recently been brutally murdered.
xxwhispersxx Understandable, completely understandable. I would have balled my eyes out at least for an hour. It's just to much emotionally...just too much!
At Columbia University in ‘64, Bobby was asked something about Jack by a student and he literally just stood there for five minutes staring straight at the kid yet into the middle distance. He was kinda moving his lips like he was mouthing to someone. And he’d smile. And there was a glisten to his eyes, like he was on the verge of tears. 5 minutes of this. When he finally spoke, Bobby began to find himself. It would be awhile before he knew himself enough to know how he was different from Jack, yet capable of good in his own right. That started in South Africa in ‘66. He probably would’ve won a presidential election in South Africa that year.
After watching this, I am persuaded that his greatness was not to be ignored nor denied. At the age of 11 years old, I watched this live on TV. I recall thinking that this man is someone special. I will be 69 in less than 1 month...still I weep at the loss of what could have been
One of my favorite moments is when RFK keeps trying to say "Mr. Chairman" but the crowd won't let him speak... they just keep cheering. It's one of the most beautiful moments I have ever seen. I grew up in Hyannis (where the Kennedy Compound is), I've went to Kennedy tributes with much of the Kennedy family in attendance. I even went to a screening of "ETHEL" at Nantucket Film Festival with Ethel Kennedy in attendance and with a Q&A from Rory Kennedy... so I've always had a deep respect for RFK...JFK... and MLK (all assassinated).
The ovation for RFK is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. I don't think a crowd would be capable of that sort of spirit today. It makes me sad to see what has happened to this country since JFK and he were killed.
I seem to have a hard time not commenting here re Bobby. Every time I see this full video of him it never ceases to break my old heart again and again...he and his brother, as much as humanly possible, would have made us a great and peaceful world. I just know it and the more factual stuff I find the more I know that to be true.
Gosh, this speech by Robert Kennedy makes me cry so hard !! The pain, the heartache, the devastation, the rawness and the wretchedness he was feeling inside. He was severely affected by his brother John's death. After his speech was done he went inside and cried and vomited for half an hour. Such a sad, sad story. A man with great attributes and a very talented orator, politician and humanist. Things would be different today if he had not been assassinated !!
RFK was the brother that could have been your greatest president but American business likes money the military their wars then people with empathy and good intentions shame on use
I was 12 and remember this very clearly.... it lasted for almost a half hour....my dad tuned this in just to see what he had to say , because it was basically his first major speech in public since JFK was killed... and it was something we never forgot .... we all hoped he would run... but fate intervened again .... this was how the democratic party used to be ... what the hell happened? citizens united for one thing....
Probably one of the greatest conference speeches of all time. The emotional pressure that man was under. Would loved to have seen LBJ’s face at the time it was going on. C’est la vie...
Thanks for good thought, I believe without a doubt LBJ was fuming and wanted Bobby dead before he left office...and he was. The truth is out about LBJ and Edgar Hoover but our govt. run press will never tell the masses...people from the 60's still write and speak for anyone who wants to know. I think many believe in 1973, when LBJ, one of, or perhaps the most without conscience president we ever had, may have not won when he saw the Kennedy brothers murdered, he hated them...but for any who may believe there is more than this often severe, warring and murderous world, LBJ "closed his eyes here," only to find that all wrongs will be made right. I wonder that because of the awful percent of injustice this nation and the world mete out.
@@wally1452 he probably had the most ugliest face in history. But even after Bobby's death, he felt much worse. Bobby's death was a repeat of John's death 5 years earlier, and like John, he was praised. For all Johnson knew, no matter what happened, the Kennedys would always come out on top, and Johnson, no matter how good he tried to be, no matter how ambicious he was, even the great laws he passed, such as Civil Rights, Medicare and better Education, Americans would always look for something to hate him the moment he took the senate seat, and Vietnam was an easy target
Watching Bobby up on the rostrum -- what a great country we were. We should remind ourselves that we still have the capacity to rise to our best humanity. We can be more than just snarky cynics.
Thanks for excellent post. I hoped, even prayed for years that the darkness and perpetual war that came after JFK, then RFK (& MLK) were murdered by our not so new fascist govt...it just blatantly showed us they were in charge of the nation on Nov. 22, 1963, again in 1968. It began long before that. I never tire of hearing what these brothers spoke of and stood for. Every time I see/hear these 2 great Americans who sought peace, to make us a great nation for all, I recall that day and I near 20 years old...anyone that could think rationally knew the nation and world changed and some of us even then saw what would happen when U.K. Empire went down and we became the nuclear power that had Truman laughing and had one of his most joyful days when he heard and learned we just vaporised and killed 1,000's and 1,000's of civilians, we anxious...anxious to see what destruction we could commit. My many years of any optimism and hope is no more. One day, as all empires that seek wars and spread themselves over the world, it too will fall...when it does, maybe something good will rise up out of the ashes. Thanks for a fine thought, I am glad you can hope yet.
That is palpable the look in his eyes. Ethel has said he withdrew and was not the same fir about 6 months. Deciding to run for the NY Senate a month earlier brought him out of it somewhat. He was a behind the scenes guy at best but he said he had to do something so he picked himself up And ran. He must have had relief resigning as AG.
He would’ve had the power to declassify certain documents and possibly get to the bottom of what really happened in Dallas on that fateful day. Obviously, the plotters weren’t about to let that happen.
He's clearly still broken by the loss of his brother. And I cannot believe the country and the party let such a popular person walk casually without formal protection even after he announced his candidacy for president.
I saw Robert at Atlantic City, NJ in May 1968. I was 15. I shook his hand and had a brief conversation with him along with maybe 15 others. Bobby entered the taxiway STANDING in a '67 beige Cadillac CONVERTIBLE. Everybody cheered when we saw him; then the cheers died in our throats as we flashed on his brother's death. There was no stopping.the Kennedys from being with the People except with a damn bullet. He was shot a month later.
Wow! Every time RFK tried to speak the crowd got louder.. A standing ovation lasting over 12 minutes! I wish I had been born a few years earlier to witness this first hand. Beautiful speech!
You can tell that Bobby.. this was Jack’s last speech. His spirit channeled through Bobby, and was speaking to Bobby. What he said the people meant to Jack are the same exact things he meant to Jack. And the ovation, that was for Jack. For his life and in approval of these last words of his. Edit: rereading this 8 months later, sober, it made no sense to me at first. It’s a complicated post. I was about to rewrite the lot of it. But. It makes complete sense. I couldn’t make it any better.
I adore John f Kennedy what a magnificent speaker he was and a charismatic man full of charm and his ☘️ Irish wit and Robert Kennedy an amazing man he is so heartbroken and so brave to come on this stage and give a Amazing and touching speech about his brother who he had lost only 8 months ago xboth gone to soon ❤️
LBJ was afraid that such an outpouring of love/grief like this might swing the convention to Kennedy, so he had this appearance scheduled for after the voting.
JFK and RFK were America’s true class. Benchmark for leadership. RFK, is a hero, who relentlessly sought justice for the weak and the downtrodden. His kind of sincerity is not seen nowadays. Rest in peace! I pray that this generation will see leaders like JFK and RFK again.
Dawn Jensen Without a doubt- guaranteed. The presidential race was just a formality because he won the presidency the same second as he declared his intentions to run. It was inevitable.
So refreshing and makes me realize that we can still make a difference for the good and that all hope is not lost. RFK was a huge influence for me and one of the reasons I got involved with non profit work and volunteering. His books inspired me and I've been blessed to meet a few people that were close to him when he was alive. Life is indeed very short and I only hope I can do some good while I'm on earth but at the very least be a decent human being. Thank you for the post!
What would've happened if Bobby Kennedy had become president in 1968? He definitely would've been of the Greatest presidents this country would've had.
9 months , how could he stand there and not well up and cry is beyond me , knowing its not him who should be standing there and feeling this way. But his brother , alive and The President running for a 2nd term . It tears up now in 2024 and I was alive and old enough to remember this .
Still cry every time I see this video....... what could have been.......a gentleman, decent, honest, down to earth, the right ideals, a humanist !! As opposed to this Trump trash that we have in the White House now... a liar, a cheat, a sexist, racist, misogynist, low class, low life rubbish !!
You are both right , and both wrong. I'll leave it to you to figure out what was wrong and right about both. Those of us who pay attention to past and present history and know what is fake news and not , already know.
He never knew from which direction the knives came...a coup took place in November of 1963 and the ideological heirs of those monsters are still in charge...lurking there behind the curtain...
There are better Kennedy videos I suggest that you watch. Most of this was pablum. Most of what Bob says at the 64 convention was non controversial and went down like sugar water. Consider, by contrast, the Bobby Kennedy of 1968 when he has blossomed into a radical. Listen to his speech at Kansas State University in March of 1968. It was a conservative milieu and his staff did not expect to gain much ground in such a red state. But the crowd went wild and some people on his staff shouted. "This is Kansas. They love us in Kansas, We're going all fucking way." In Kennedy's speech he excoriated the sins of our society. In the latter part of his speech, he reached the crescendo or radical reason and fury. He explained why the Vietnam War was wrong, how we killed innocent people and he raised his battle flag for peace high. He was obviously the best man for job in 1968 and so, of course, that's why they killed him.
Because of social/main stream media and their need to create sensationalism to make money, the political narratives have changed to incitement dogma. Not to get into a tit for tat, Colleen, principle based speeches are rare and seem to happen more in long form video now. Candidates and politicians are constantly dodging the slings and arrows of rabble-rousing. When we participate in it, we contribute to the degradation of the body politic... and turn on each other.
You can just see in Bobby’s face how heavy his heart is and how nervous he must have been.
Name a politician today in America who could receive a 22 minute ovation like Robert Kennedy did that night.
I honestly cant.
Probably none but it is worth remembering that the main reason why his ovation was so long is because he was the brother of a beloved president who had recently been brutally murdered.
trump. Bobby's was only 12 minutes.
@@ADAMSIXTIEShahahahaha
I read that after Bobby was done with his speech he went out into the stairwell and cried for thirty minutes.
xxwhispersxx Understandable, completely understandable. I would have balled my eyes out at least for an hour. It's just to much emotionally...just too much!
Yep
@Ragnar damn straight his life was a greek tragedy
At Columbia University in ‘64, Bobby was asked something about Jack by a student and he literally just stood there for five minutes staring straight at the kid yet into the middle distance. He was kinda moving his lips like he was mouthing to someone. And he’d smile. And there was a glisten to his eyes, like he was on the verge of tears. 5 minutes of this. When he finally spoke, Bobby began to find himself. It would be awhile before he knew himself enough to know how he was different from Jack, yet capable of good in his own right. That started in South Africa in ‘66. He probably would’ve won a presidential election in South Africa that year.
Terry Hawkins Thanks for the recommendation. I found it uplifting. This is a message worth sharing with mitakuye oyas’in.
After watching this, I am persuaded that his greatness was not to be ignored nor denied. At the age of 11 years old, I watched this live on TV. I recall thinking that this man is someone special. I will be 69 in less than 1 month...still I weep at the loss of what could have been
One of my favorite moments is when RFK keeps trying to say "Mr. Chairman" but the crowd won't let him speak... they just keep cheering. It's one of the most beautiful moments I have ever seen. I grew up in Hyannis (where the Kennedy Compound is), I've went to Kennedy tributes with much of the Kennedy family in attendance. I even went to a screening of "ETHEL" at Nantucket Film Festival with Ethel Kennedy in attendance and with a Q&A from Rory Kennedy... so I've always had a deep respect for RFK...JFK... and MLK (all assassinated).
The ovation for RFK is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. I don't think a crowd would be capable of that sort of spirit today. It makes me sad to see what has happened to this country since JFK and he were killed.
I seem to have a hard time not commenting here re Bobby. Every time I see this full video of him it never ceases to break my old heart again and again...he and his brother, as much as humanly possible, would have made us a great and peaceful world. I just know it and the more factual stuff I find the more I know that to be true.
I also believe that even though or but it would have been "just 8 years" in total I guess.....
You're not alone. I shook Bobby's hand in 1968, a month before he was murdered. I was 15.
The pure sincerity in his eyes is heart touching. What a great man. May God rest his soul
@@gregorykayne6054 For all the flack that Baby Boomers receive nowadays, you can’t take away this: they had some of the finest teachers in history.
The applause isn't for me, it's for him. - Bob Kennedy
Gosh, this speech by Robert Kennedy makes me cry so hard !! The pain, the heartache, the devastation, the rawness and the wretchedness he was feeling inside. He was severely affected by his brother John's death. After his speech was done he went inside and cried and vomited for half an hour. Such a sad, sad story. A man with great attributes and a very talented orator, politician and humanist. Things would be different today if he had not been assassinated !!
RFK was the brother that could have been your greatest president but American business likes money the military their wars then people with empathy and good intentions shame on use
Same as his brother I believe!
Those bastards!!
I was 12 and remember this very clearly.... it lasted for almost a half hour....my dad tuned this in just to see what he had to say , because it was basically his first major speech in public since JFK was killed... and it was something we never forgot .... we all hoped he would run... but fate intervened again .... this was how the democratic party used to be ... what the hell happened? citizens united for one thing....
Probably one of the greatest conference speeches of all time. The emotional pressure that man was under. Would loved to have seen LBJ’s face at the time it was going on. C’est la vie...
Thanks for good thought, I believe without a doubt LBJ was fuming and wanted Bobby dead before he left office...and he was. The truth is out about LBJ and Edgar Hoover but our govt. run press will never tell the masses...people from the 60's still write and speak for anyone who wants to know.
I think many believe in 1973, when LBJ, one of, or perhaps the most without conscience president we ever had, may have not won when he saw the Kennedy brothers murdered, he hated them...but for any who may believe there is more than this often severe, warring and murderous world, LBJ "closed his eyes here," only to find that all wrongs will be made right. I wonder that because of the awful percent of injustice this nation and the world mete out.
@@wally1452 I have an interesting video
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@@wally1452 he probably had the most ugliest face in history. But even after Bobby's death, he felt much worse. Bobby's death was a repeat of John's death 5 years earlier, and like John, he was praised. For all Johnson knew, no matter what happened, the Kennedys would always come out on top, and Johnson, no matter how good he tried to be, no matter how ambicious he was, even the great laws he passed, such as Civil Rights, Medicare and better Education, Americans would always look for something to hate him the moment he took the senate seat, and Vietnam was an easy target
There will never be an ovation like this one.
Bobby, you're still loved almost 60 years later. I wasn't born until 1973, and you are my hero.
Watching Bobby up on the rostrum -- what a great country we were. We should remind ourselves that we still have the capacity to rise to our best humanity. We can be more than just snarky cynics.
I love you, man
Its an amazing ovation of love and adoration unlike any other
Thanks for excellent post. I hoped, even prayed for years that the darkness and perpetual war that came after JFK, then RFK (& MLK) were murdered by our not so new fascist govt...it just blatantly showed us they were in charge of the nation on Nov. 22, 1963, again in 1968. It began long before that.
I never tire of hearing what these brothers spoke of and stood for. Every time I see/hear these 2 great Americans who sought peace, to make us a great nation for all, I recall that day and I near 20 years old...anyone that could think rationally knew the nation and world changed and some of us even then saw what would happen when U.K. Empire went down and we became the nuclear power that had Truman laughing and had one of his most joyful days when he heard and learned we just vaporised and killed 1,000's and 1,000's of civilians, we anxious...anxious to see what destruction we could commit. My many years of any optimism and hope is no more. One day, as all empires that seek wars and spread themselves over the world, it too will fall...when it does, maybe something good will rise up out of the ashes. Thanks for a fine thought, I am glad you can hope yet.
Amen the that
Jesus, what kind of love is that!!!
The best kind ❤️❤️🙏
the emotion in his eyes.. you could really tell.. miss him more than words can imagine.
That is palpable the look in his eyes. Ethel has said he withdrew and was not the same fir about 6 months. Deciding to run for the NY Senate a month earlier brought him out of it somewhat. He was a behind the scenes guy at best but he said he had to do something so he picked himself up
And ran. He must have had relief resigning as AG.
Bobby was so kind...so genuine....how could we have let that happen??? How? He was just trying to make the world a little less ugly...
Greed and war mongers military industrial complex
That's why he was killed. Those in power will never allow a great man like this to become president.
He would’ve had the power to declassify certain documents and possibly get to the bottom of what really happened in Dallas on that fateful day. Obviously, the plotters weren’t about to let that happen.
There's alot of books that say RFK was a rude a-hole.
you can see the pain in his eyes...dear.
Poor guy ❤️🙏
He's clearly still broken by the loss of his brother. And I cannot believe the country and the party let such a popular person walk casually without formal protection even after he announced his candidacy for president.
Bobby knew not to really try to hush them. This was the National Catharsis for JFK.
I saw Robert at Atlantic City, NJ in May 1968. I was 15. I shook his hand and had a brief conversation with him along with maybe 15 others. Bobby entered the taxiway STANDING in a '67 beige Cadillac CONVERTIBLE. Everybody cheered when we saw him; then the cheers died in our throats as we flashed on his brother's death. There was no stopping.the Kennedys from being with the People except with a damn bullet. He was shot a month later.
Wow! Every time RFK tried to speak the crowd got louder.. A standing ovation lasting over 12 minutes! I wish I had been born a few years earlier to witness this first hand. Beautiful speech!
You can tell that Bobby.. this was Jack’s last speech. His spirit channeled through Bobby, and was speaking to Bobby. What he said the people meant to Jack are the same exact things he meant to Jack. And the ovation, that was for Jack. For his life and in approval of these last words of his.
Edit: rereading this 8 months later, sober, it made no sense to me at first. It’s a complicated post. I was about to rewrite the lot of it. But. It makes complete sense. I couldn’t make it any better.
Man that took guts. Bless.
I adore John f Kennedy what a magnificent speaker he was and a charismatic man full of charm and his ☘️ Irish wit and Robert Kennedy an amazing man he is so heartbroken and so brave to come on this stage and give a Amazing and touching speech about his brother who he had lost only 8 months ago xboth gone to soon ❤️
This 22 minute applause has no comparison! I wish we could’ve known RFK as our president!
LBJ was afraid that such an outpouring of love/grief like this might swing the convention to Kennedy, so he had this appearance scheduled for after the voting.
bt10ant I remember reading about that.
JFK and RFK were America’s true class. Benchmark for leadership. RFK, is a hero, who relentlessly sought justice for the weak and the downtrodden. His kind of sincerity is not seen nowadays. Rest in peace! I pray that this generation will see leaders like JFK and RFK again.
My God...We need a Kennedy more than ever in this cruel world of today.
Beautiful. 7 years before my time. I think he would have won in 1968.
Dawn Jensen Without a doubt- guaranteed. The presidential race was just a formality because he won the presidency the same second as he declared his intentions to run. It was inevitable.
@@CocoTaveras8975 and that's why they killed Bobby
I actually won the presidency and served 2 terms
Great moment in humanity
He was absolutely devastated by his brothers death.
After this RFK went to the back sat outside and cried for over 30 minutes saying those applause were for U John....
So refreshing and makes me realize that we can still make a difference for the good and that all hope is not lost. RFK was a huge influence for me and one of the reasons I got involved with non profit work and volunteering. His books inspired me and I've been blessed to meet a few people that were close to him when he was alive. Life is indeed very short and I only hope I can do some good while I'm on earth but at the very least be a decent human being. Thank you for the post!
Amen
What a catastrophe for the nation his murder was.
Sorry but you are underestimating the scale of the catastrophe, for it was a world wide catasrophe.
What would've happened if Bobby Kennedy had become president in 1968? He definitely would've been of the Greatest presidents this country would've had.
In only one word : “devotion”
9 months , how could he stand there and not well up and cry is beyond me , knowing its not him who should be standing there and feeling this way. But his brother , alive and The President running for a 2nd term . It tears up now in 2024 and I was alive and old enough to remember this .
Still cry every time I see this video....... what could have been.......a gentleman, decent, honest, down to earth, the right ideals, a humanist !! As opposed to this Trump trash that we have in the White House now... a liar, a cheat, a sexist, racist, misogynist, low class, low life rubbish !!
EVERY WORD you use to describe PRESIDENT TRUMP.....are EXACTLY what the Kennedys PERSONIFIED!! MORON
You are both right , and both wrong. I'll leave it to you to figure out what was wrong and right about both. Those of us who pay attention to past and present history and know what is fake news and not , already know.
He never knew from which direction the knives came...a coup took place in November of 1963 and the ideological heirs of those monsters are still in charge...lurking there behind the curtain...
Thanks for posting.
Bobby!
Rfk was smart man as well he was for all different race too and for the people
Roberts smile is contagious. Such a hottie 😘
the man who could have saved America from permanent melancholy and the dark side. we had our chance at redemption but let it slip away
Kennedys were the best speakers of all times.
Bobby❤
And soo the world has failed after the great man
There are better Kennedy videos I suggest that you watch.
Most of this was pablum. Most of what Bob says at the 64 convention was non controversial and went down like sugar water. Consider, by contrast, the Bobby Kennedy of 1968 when he has blossomed into a radical.
Listen to his speech at Kansas State University in March of 1968. It was a conservative milieu and his staff did not expect to gain much ground in such a red state. But the crowd went wild and some people on his staff shouted. "This is Kansas. They love us in Kansas, We're going all fucking way."
In Kennedy's speech he excoriated the sins of our society. In the latter part of his speech, he reached the crescendo or radical reason and fury. He explained why the Vietnam War was wrong, how we killed innocent people and he raised his battle flag for peace high.
He was obviously the best man for job in 1968 and so, of course, that's why they killed him.
",...and pay no attention to the garish sun."
LBJ
Oh how things have changed 🥲
The lights are burning and there is so much yet to do in this mass of darkness, yes in deed the greatest generation of human beings in history.
I thought the ‘60 convention was in Atlantic City NJ
These were great leaders. Today we have the ultimate class clown in the White House.
That’s for sure
Poor bobby would get burned in effigy today for bringing up jefferson and maduson
Democrats don't talk like this anymore.
To be fair, do either parties?
Nobody does.
Obama does.
Because of social/main stream media and their need to create sensationalism to make money, the political narratives have changed to incitement dogma. Not to get into a tit for tat, Colleen, principle based speeches are rare and seem to happen more in long form video now. Candidates and politicians are constantly dodging the slings and arrows of rabble-rousing. When we participate in it, we contribute to the degradation of the body politic... and turn on each other.
@@colleenbrowne739 lmao
Bobbymania.
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The leadership of the Democratic party.
Imagine Trump quoting Shakespeare.....
Trump prefers to quote himself and say how beautiful it is
Lmao
I doubt he even know who Shaekspeare is, even if he does, I doubt he will be able to quote him.
Lbj was prolly pissed asf😂
When it was still the UNITED States.
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I think a rich Democrat should buy airtime and just play this tape over the networks.
When Democrats hated communists.
They still do
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Really so pierce buchanon and Andrew johnson were dedicated to progress
Never did like the Kennedys
Who cares