The President America Never Had: What If RFK Wasn't Assassinated? | America's Lost President
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- It is a great ‘what-if’ of the last century. What if Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the murdered JFK, had not himself been assassinated while campaigning for the Presidency in 1968?
This documentary reveals how Kennedy transformed from Cold War warrior to advocate of peace, from son of privilege to champion of the down-trodden, from timid adolescent to potential President.
And it will ask what might have been, had Kennedy lived…
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Bobby Kennedy’s assassination is one of the only historical events that truly makes me shed a tear every time. What could have been…
exactly. what could have been? in this case, not much. whatever he accomplishes is probably revoked out of existence the moment he leaves office, by a republican.
he wouldnt of won the nomination in 68 had he lived, but he eventually would have become president i say in the 1976 election 8 years later
@@robertosso5210I say he might've because he has similar policy to LBJ who almost won except we was anti Vietnam war which I believe would've granted him a good sum more votes + he was very popular with minorities
@@HaiIey897 i say anytime between 68 and 76 Rfk would had become president
@@HaiIey897 we can still have Rfk as president, we can still make it happen thru his son Rfk jr.
I was privileged to see Bobby twice in my life. When I was 16 he came to speak at my high school. That was 1966. He was campaigning for the US representive in my district. I loved politics. Later got a political science degree from Indiana University. I left the speech early to figure out where he would leave the school. There was a short cut thru the boys locker room to the out side that many didnt use. I waited at that outside door. I was the first there. I lucked out. He came thru the door and shook my hand. I was so close to him it is easy to see how someone could take his life. After that night I became a fan for life. I was so devastated with his dead. I lost my girlfriend of a year the next day. I am to this day not sure what I felt the saddest about. He was a great man. As his brother said. Saw suffering and tried to heal it. Saw war and tried to stop it. In my mind the whole world would have been better if he had lived. He was a great man. A man I tried to model my life after. Having compassion for those less fortunate than myself.
Robert Kennedy remains a beacon of hope.
Thank you for sharing your story, Sir. I was born in '96 and it is a pleasure to hear a story about Bobby as a young fan. I hope you're safe and doing well whenever you are, Sir. Take care ♥️
@@arricammarques1955 did you ever go into politics
@@icebreaker9995 It's not the first time I have been asked.
@@arricammarques1955 so you didn’t or what?
I was born in 1969. Watching this, with tears and a real sense of loss. I do believe Robert Kennedy would have made a legacy as one of America’s finest Presidents. Thank you Timeline for airing this excellent documentary. Thank you Robert Kennedy for caring for all of humanity. 💜💙🙏🏾💚💛🇺🇸🦅🔔⚔️🌎🌍🌏🕊🇺🇸💫💜🕊
Amen
Ya right...bobby would have been the most woke president ever...
Sometimes people say "Everybody loves you when you're dead."
And while Bobby had plenty of flaws and wouldn't have been perfect, he might be one of the few people that was even more loved when he was alive.
Our What If's will always be a DREAM. Rest In Peace JFK and RFK.
Song: by Marvin Gaye:
genius.com/Marvin-gaye-abraham-martin-and-john-lyrics
Click at the bottom to listen to song.
[Verse 1]
Has anyone here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
Oh, he freed a lot of people
But it seems the good die young, yeah
I just looked around and he was gone
[Verse 2]
Has anyone here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
You know, he freed a lot of people
But it seems the good die young, yeah
I just looked around and he was gone
[Verse 3]
Has anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people
But it seems the good die young, yeah
I just looked around and he was gone
[Verse 4]
Has anybody here seen my friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
You know, he freed a lot of people
But the good, they die young, yeah
I just looked around and he was gone
Oh I, just looked around and they were gone
Abe Lincoln, John Kennedy, Martin L. King, Bobby Kennedy
Several singers recorded the song, but Gaye's was the most remarkable.
I remember one version, I don't know which one, before verse 4 about Bobby was added, the verse was something like "There's my old friend Bobby, just walkin' across the hill" and so on, the implication that Bobby was suddenly gone, following the others.
@@veralenora7368 Thank you😊
Yeah. JFK,RFK,Malcom X and MLK we’re all influential ppl. They shaped what is to be civil rights and many other things. They will still be soully missed.
But my generation will only know them through stories being told by other ppl, Textbooks, documentaries, family members that knew them. If are any left.
It’s a sad state of affairs. We’re living on fringed element times and COVID19 times as well. Atleast we have Pres Biden.👈🏻Ppl like him remember All those who I mentioned before.
what a mega drop in quality from a jfk and a rfk....to...a .........Joe Biden!
@@mike197714 You're funny: JFK was killed by a Left-Wing Marxist; RFK was killed by a Left-wing Anti-Semitic Palestinian; Malcolm was killed by his own people; and only MLK was killed by a racist. But thank God we have Left-Wing Biden, who would sympathize and welcome these killers into te modern Democratic party.
42 mins: Life of RFK
1 min: What If Robert F. Kennedy Had Lived?
Exactly my thought.
Good thing I skipped to the end
Bobby Kennedy for President on Netflix is an excellent documentary though as an alternative to this
Oh thanks for that. I will skip.
right ? lol
Clickbait. Shame
If RKF had live...the USA would have pulled out of Vietnam..no.Nixon..no Watergate. But we' ll never know. RFK was a rich priveledged white man who understood and felt the anguish of poor and minority Americans.
gee I seem to remember Nixon pulling us out of Vietnam
Anything is possible in our imaginations...unless we can find and access an alternate universe where RFK did live and become President (which, may actually be possible one day) we just cannot assume anything.
He had a heart for the marginalized... Maybe women would have had equal pay decades ago as well...
Sure - I have a bridge for sale - interested?
whos RKF?
I am in the UK and I remember the day Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, I was absolutely numb. He was all for civil rights and those less fortunate. R.I.P. Bobby Kennedy.
hahaha fool
I was 8 and woke up and saw it on tv that morning. He was laying on a cold concrete floor with an Indian doctor attending to him
If Robert Kennedy had lived, I believe he would have been one of our best presidents. He had a good head on his shoulders and believed what he taked about.
In fact , RFK could not say anything he did not believe.
Interesting, I was never taught about him at all in school. Kennedy High *06*
@@budbutley532 I feel like I've said that before...
Bit what is rfk the president of what
He will probably drown another girl in his car down the river by accident without reporting it?
The difference between Robert and his brother John was that during his brother's presidency Robert went and visited black communities in the south that were living in abject poverty and this totally changed him in the fact that it's so touched and broke his soul to see that this was going on in such a rich country
Plus his speech in Indy the night MLK died.
Yea. Broken hearted in Hyannis.
It was because RFK understood the pain and suffering of the African American people as he was the outsider in his family. He knew what it was like to be treated differently.
@@marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 naive you
Amen he surely did !
God bless his soul 🙏🏿
One of the best gifts I have received was a picture of my Grandparents with Robert when he was campaigning in Indiana. It’s sad to think of what could have been, things would have been so different. Rest In Peace Robert.
He saved Indianapolis from suffering from the riots that stuck practically ever other major American city by giving an incredible speech the night Dr. King was assassinated
Just old enough to barely remember the 3 assassinations of the 60s, this profoundly touched me, and I thank you.
JFK and RFK would’ve been the 1st pair of brothers to take office as President
Which was a big deal at the time actually, it was used against RFK. Many Americans didn't want a dynasty in America especially when a lot of Americans still remember FDR being a four-term president.
Lowkey can’t imagine having a president for 12 years
No Kennedy dynasty. The Kennedy brothers vastly overrated except in the empty minds of the idolizers for whom the Kennedy Crime Family were "AMERICAN ROYALTY."
OH PLEASE.
@@Jonathanalankieffer Yet we almost got 4 consecutive Bush Sr. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, & Hillary Clinton presidencies. FDR earned his cred with the American people & his voting coalitions won electoral landslides, but yeah I agree 4 terms is too much for a president. Congress should also have term limits imho. Public service should not be an avenue to becoming a career politician.
Sorry Jeb.
Never know. I still remember waking up finding out he was killed. I still have photo of him with my cousin and then rest of us when he came to campaign for my cousin
I know his nephew will be
Who is your cousin? Just curious
Did you learn of the shooting 24 hours earlier when you woke up? News people apologized for being repetitious in informing of the shooting, because many people were waking up at the time.
The next day, I learned of the death when I heard "NBC News will continue its coverage of the death of Senator Kennedy".
Much later I heard that Robert Kennedy was brain damaged by the shooting and thus it was already seen that he would not be able to continue campaign.
In 1999, JFK Jr.'s airplane going missing was a story developing overnight, and what I tuned in displayed a message on the screen to handle the waking-up problem.
@@carlmoore3215 Your post doesn’t make sense, were you posting when intoxicated or on medication?
@@jixuscrixus 😂😂😂
You know if both Jack & Robert Kennedy along with Martin Luthier King,Malcolm X all had lived the nation be in better place.
Thank you Jesus.
I remember seeing my father watch something similar to this in the mid 90s and wiping tears from his face. To young to understand he'd just smile when I asked what was wrong and he just said he was an amazing man that was taken away too soon. Now that I am a man and understand who RFK was I understand and wish we all could have seen what he would have accomplished.
Poor title choice. This is more like a “Life and Times of RFK” than what would happen.
That kinda struck me too
Wasn't mentioned: Bobby founded the Peace Corps.
yeah that was disappointing
@@veralenora7368 wasn't that shriver?
@@jeffgregg2221 Shriver was the first Director.
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”― Leonardo da Vinci.
More like man destroys what it doesn't understand
How about nothing should be loved or hated unless it is first understood
@@adefay2811 That sounds better. Lots of people love and/or hate things without understanding them.
I never understood him
A topic discussed many times with my friends. I firmly believe that this country and this world would have been a drastically different place…for the better.
too bad it was only discussed in extremely nebulous terms 2 minutes before the the end of the doc...Very misleading title.
@@holdencaulfield8429 exactly lol. This was a doc on Bobby Kennedy (which I did enjoy) but I thought this was gonna be a what-of story..)
I too believe that had both Kennedys lived much of the current decline in our country would have been forestalled.
I don't know about all that but I think Robert would've gone down as one of the best Presidents.
What a wonderful man and an awesome legacy left behind. Breaks my heart every time I think of his and Jack's death. If he would've been President unity wouldn't just be a dream and a hope but a reality! RIP RFK
Yessssssssssssssss
Robert would’ve made his brother even prouder of him. Mr. John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy’s relationship was so amazing! I miss them both even though I wasn’t even alive during that time. I look up to them both very much.
I lived through that time. Was too young to vote for Jack, supported Bobby. Everything u've said is truth!
If he had lived my grandpa would have worked in the White House (He was working for him when he was assassinated).
Really amazing, hope he told you ever detail of that experience.
@@terreniskelley7191 Unfortunately not, I actually heard it from my grandmother.
Courtney please share with us some stories please 😢 anything would be wonderful! I’m sure your family still have stories. Ugh you’re so lucky!
@@dustynutt7742 No he was a reporter.
@@Courtneybenson907 so sad what happened I’m Canadian and still wonder what it coulda been like. That’s awesome that your family helped in the press that part of his team was definitely stellar!!
If RFK lived He for sure would be one of the greatest president in the history of USA
Former California Governor Pat Brown could be the vice president.
Also, RFK would improve better race relationships.
No proof - just emotion
I still believe that Humphrey would have won the nomination with or without RFK there.
@@a1w23 Hubert H. Humphrey would be the best Vice President from 1961 to 1969.
The murders of the Kennedys were tragedies whose consequences we still live with today. Neither were saints, but they were better than anything we have had since. Bobby's association with Joe McCarthy was the biggest stain on his reputation, but he was able to put that behind him.
You're correct about RFK's association with McCarthy, but it was the Bay of Pigs fiasco (a CIA plan) that was a greater stain on RFK's legacy. Bobby organized the operation *WITHOUT* getting the military involved in the upfront planning and logistics, and he then sold the *efficacy* of the operation to older brother Jack. It was Bobby's show, and it was Bay of Pigs that resulted in the Soviets placing missiles in Cuba that brought the world to the brink of destruction in Oct/1962.
@@jamesanthony5681 Bay of Pigs was a plan from the Eisenhower administration. JFK signed an executive order that would’ve had America out of Vietnam in 1965, but he died a few weeks later and LBJ cancelled the order.
@@relievedbigfoot4640 it doesn't matter in whose administration the plan originated. Eisenhower thought BOP (a CIA plan) was a ludicrous plan and never went ahead with the operation. Smart man, Ike. RFK organized BOP and JFK greenlighted the joint Military-CIA operation.. It went ahead in April 1961, and ended in disaster.
JFK could have signed 100 executive orders to get out of Vietnam, however, they were not going to get out of Vietnam, especially since:
(1) JFK placed 16,000 military in the country *AND*
(2) the assassination of Diem (American sanctioned coup) in early Nov 1963.
They were stuck and it would have been impossible to get out. .
I first heard about Robert Kennedy in his brother's memoir, Teddy Kennedy. The Kennedy family has really suffered a lot.
I read it somewhere that in those days; blacks , Latinos, Asian Americans as well as native American communities had the slogan "Bobby's white but alright" plastered in their neighborhood. I think that speaks enough about the united stand that people had about him. RIP RFK, our lost president.
People don’t talk like this anymore and the World is a lesser place because of it..
The man who inspired me to be a firefighter.
Hey I have a question
@@that_dude_tk7327 lol why haven’t you said anything
@@K_eroz okay well my question is how can I lead like RFK and how do I be a good leader and what made rfk great?
@@that_dude_tk7327 to be a good leader means you care for those that are less fortunate than you and you make the right choices and not the most popular ones
LBJ was shrewd but he never wanted to be president after an assassination, which is one reason why he never ran a second term.
One son to war two others to assassination... jeez that’s rough
Back in the mid to late 60’s I was an RFK advocate and dissolute when he was assassinated. I idolized his older brother and was emotional to this day when JFK was assassinated. Back in 1960 I met by accident Rose Kennedy and wept bitterly seeing her mourn her second son. I was 10 years old in 1960 and 18 in 1968.
so ur 70 now??
@@ryujinxyyeji yes, with over 30 yrs aerospace quality experience, 9 yrs marine corps experience and a political grassroots activist for human rights, civil liberties and educational improvements. Writing my stories here with my Thai wife who is a well trained Thai lawyer in Korat, Thailand...going to return sometime in late 2021 or early 2022 to the states.
If he had won in 68,he would have opened up the assassination Case of his brother again, and nailed the culprits CIA and its assets like Mafia and Texan Oil Barons and LBJ.But Nixon had to win and If RFK won it would have been JFK 2.0 which the Cold War Machine couldn't digest.
@@hashimawan2433 I walked the site years later while between duty stations. I came to the conclusion that the statistical odds of where Oswald was and the shots hit there had to be at least one or two other better positions to make those shots. Thus he couldn’t have been a lone shooter. Besides Oswald when in the Corps never scored above marksman on the range. Marksman is the lowest rank of shooter in the corps. Rankings are Marksman, Sharpshooter and Expert.
@@ryujinxyyeji Maybe he's only 69 and 3/4. You never know.....
This what if just leaves me with a sense of incredible sadness at how different the world would have been.
Yesss,yesss
Ya russia would rule the earth, and only the elite politicians would be wealthy and all powerful ,get a grip
@@charlesreinhart803 that's what's happening now elites ruling world
@@mariemiller8740 lol and the Kennedy idolizers still think that the Kennedy dynasty would have saved the world. Idiots still believe in their rich elite politician overlords. The Kennedy Crime Family was expert at pulling the right levers on the DemocRATic political machine.
@@catherinehazur7336 his last speech got him killed at least he came out and warned people. And Robert Kennedy was a good guy but you believe what you want.
In a RFK administration, I think we would have a shorter Vietnam, maybe even a shorter Cold War, earlier end to Civil Rights, a happier America, a better president than his brother, but we never know
LBJ was a better President than Bobby's brother.
Alternate title: if the CIA didnt exist
exactly. Pretty much everyone knows the Fed Govt killed both Kennedys. But we don't do anything about it. Instead, just sit back and take it. There should've been a citizen uprising, years ago. Well, it's never too late. This scamdemic is as good as any reason to get it started.
@@xman777b mafia did , keneddys got rid of them in Cuba and Johnson looked the other way
@@onlythewise1 mafia helped carry out the hit. And that's all.
@@xman777b maybe not
@@xman777b True, the CIA even killed the people who went against the official story of JFK murder. All they had to do as make them look like accidents or suicides, and the American people just look the other way and say that it's just a coincidence. This is our way of saying, "they're not coming after me." We don't understand that they will eventually come for us. Freedom isn't really free without some bloodshed. If Americans don't act and act fast, the communist will overcome us all.
I I was 12 years old when ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY ❤ was gunned down 😢 it was a very sad day / time in my young life ! Rest easy my Bro..,,,,🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
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
Now , most politicians don't care about the US , they don't like the US.
How can you improve something you don't like ?
These men were murdered because they had love in thier hearts.
Truly just disturbing.
CROOKS IS WHAT THEY WERE!
@See See Pee Is Watching You mad bro?
They were warm blooded Irish Celts who acted with their hearts.....This completely alien, to the cold blooded, ETERNAL ANGLO.....The Celtic warm blooded humanity of JFK and RFK, put the Anglo beast into panic. They quickly got rid of both men and MLK.
They were in politics to help their fellow human beings. They wanted to do something about poverty and disease... And they definitely had the wit and the brains to have made a difference
He is the reason why I will run for an office in Kenya in 2022
Best of luck
Which office exactly?
I will be running to be the next senator of my great county
@@elkanakipchirchirtheconfes4505 good luck to you and may god be with you
Which county?
I really love Bobbie Kennedy, I was 8 when I heard on the radio that he was dead. I love reading about his life. I once read that John Kennedy seemed soft hearted but he was tough, Robert Kennedy acted tough but inside he had a soft heart. I think he was his mother's favourite.
Was 13 had worked for Bobby at Wilshire office in Los Angeles, my dad took me to Ambassador Hotel. We were in second ballroom down stairs for hours waiting for Bobby to come see us down stairs. We heard what sounded like Those big Television Camera lights exploding. Then a Staffer Ran on stage and ask was a Doctor in the Audience. The rest is "Sad" History...
Good Lord Frederick..at 13..I then 8..what awful history you were forced to withness..but my God to think you were there.."when the crusisified Bobby" is remarable..excuse my emotion,but adored the man all my life, a moral compass!..truely believe the best President the USA denied by self interested powerful..Others!?... your personal story,makes it all so real almost 54 yrs later..You witnessed very sad history as a boy...so wish you well.Warm wishes John Co.Tipperary Ireland..It's said Voltaire said " History is only a fable,Men have agreed upon".. but your young awful experience,puts pay to that!
You never answered the title's question, devoted 2 minutues at the end to it but that isn't enough, instead you gave an excellent autobiography.
Excellent how this is propaganda and most not true these mainstream media members suck as historians and biographers
@@liljimlambert7 Ey... One of the scattered GOP- Trumpists. Come out Joe... I wait with my assault gun for you...
Fine doc. It just had next to nothing to do with the question asked in the title. And in the description. Three times.
I mean, I probably would've clicked on a doc about RFK's life and career. No need to disguise it as an alternate history video.
Quite clear in the title if he had lived...
To be fair, the last two minutes of the 43 minute documentary broadly hinted at what the title asks.
Failed to mention , that the Kennedy's made their fortune from bootlegging. Not from the " stock market"
Based documentary. And, JFK was a horrible president. Failed bay of pigs, Almost caused ww3 and human extinction.
@@votewaldo9876 in actuality a small portion of Joe Kennedy's fortune was made from bootlegging. Maybe like 2% at best. But detractors like yourself make it sound like 100% of JPK's fortune was made from bootlegging and ONLY, bootlegging, and that is false. Joe Kennedy would have been just as wealthy had he not sold a single drop of whiskey.
@@delorme9 Wrong. He made his initial capital to invest during prohibition. Thus, his wealth came directly from bootlegging.
In the immortal words of my dear mother “if ifs and buts were fruits and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas.”
Is your mother Michael Kay?
AMEN, finally a comment with a little reality, instead of the coulda, woulda, shoulda’s - How easy it is to immortalise the dead - next week on Fantasy Island ...
Nice click bait tittle. 38-1/2 minutes of history and 2 minutes asking the what if.
I was in Junior high school in 1968 old enough to watch RFK'S funeral feel a great feeling of loss .
Me too, highly grief.
I had read a book a stranger
Me too.I turned 13 ten days before his death.
Here's a suggestion for a short video series: What if the 8 U.S. Presidents who died in office didn't?
LOL
Then the Presidents that replaced them, wouldn’t have been Presidents
interesting idea...u should pitch it to Magellan or some such documentary making place
What if the Electoral College didn't exist?
@@marcsonnenberg623 trump wouldn't have won against Clinton
Bush wouldn't have won against Gore
If Bobby Kennedy would have lived we black folks would our Reparations by now. He would have been the greatest President we ever had. I'm crying as I write this message RIP.
Sorry... For what? Did you know,. that the slaves were catched and sold, by other Africans? Knock on that door...
A mule sure, but we will have to negotiate down those 40 acres.
LOL, you don't deserve s@@@
He got killed because he kept busting mobsters.
No huge fan of the Kennedys but I agree there.
I was 20 when Bobby was silenced forever.
GOD bless you Bobby
We’d know the aliens by now
This. The sad part is, a lot of humanity thinks this is a joke or is impossible
Greetings Earthlings 👽
The History Channel:
My complaint about this "what if" is they don't even ask the question until the final minutes.
Bobby would have been among the greats of American presidents.
Rosemary Kennedy (john and roberts sister) labotomised aged 22 on the wishes of their father, for being promiscuous, and an embarrassment to the family and thier political aspirations.
After this procedure she regressed to someone with the intellect of a 2 year old, and needed full time care for the rest of her life, until her death in 2005
What happened to Rosemary was shocking but what does it have to do with RFK?
@@donna25871 same family of go-getters. Worked an operated to achieve singular aims. Institutionalized in a way. Yes we can always say "ok we cannot choose our family", and are pretty much stuck with them including anything they do which is unpleasant. I'm just interjecting with something which some would find interesting, and abhorrent, to contrast the popular view of the Kennedy's. History is glossed over massively as you may also be aware.
Evil.....it's what the left is doing in mass through the MSM fake news!!!
@@donna25871 It was his sister. I think that qualifies somehow.
Most authorized biographies agree that Rose Marie had intellectual disabilities from an early age due to having been held in her mother's birth canal as she was trying to crown.
Rose Marie developed slower both physically and intellectually than her elder siblings. As far as the lobotomy, it was because she was growing increasingly aggressive and violent. Her allegedly sneaking out at night was just one factor the family considered.
It's a rich man's game. Could he have lived as could JFK & President Lincoln?? Doubles were used a lot. Stranger things have happened.
I remember hearing an account of Bobby being alive in a jail cell AFTER the assassination. Don't remember whom made that claim tho..
If he would have lived longer, his accomplishments would have been outstanding. He did so much for America in a short time, just think of it, wow
Joseph Kennedy Senior.....made his money in the stock market ....yeah sure, had nothing to do with bootlegging during Prohibition. One of presenters was spot-on, describing Joe Sr as a 'sort of godfather'
You hit it dead on!!!
Dead wrong!
Well, actually JK, Sr. made his cash in bootlegging, he invested it in the stock market and cashed out just before the crash - when stocks hit bottom a couple of years later he bought back in.
Joe Kennedy was an outsider.An irish catholic,as opposed to the WASP society who for the most part, inherited their fortunes. Kennedy became wealthy from the ground up. Its popular to knock a man like this. To assume he somehow cheated to get his position. Even if he was bootlegging during prohibition, anyone who consumed the alcohol is also guilty. He soon used the money to build a real estate empire, was smart enough to pull out of the stock market before the crash, and raised a son to be president. He played the WASP'S at their own game and wiped the floor with them. That generated hate, accusations, and of course jealousy. Now,a few generations down the line, you sit in judgement. He made some very smart moves, yet all you can do is look for something he cheated on. Where is the evidence he was a bootlegger?
Joe Kennedy graduated from Harvard with a degree in economics. In 1919, when Prohibition was passed, he joined Hayden, Stone & Co., the largest securities firm in New England. During Prohibition, he did very well in the stock market and invested his earnings in the film industry. The whole bootlegging meme originated inside the 1960 Nixon campaign. Puzzlingly, it remains an opinion chique, especially on the left. I guess it makes you look smart.
I like the way the narrator uses past tense when talking about past events; I wish they'd do this in all history documentaries.
What if Bobby Kennedy had lived?--Allen Dulles, Lyndon Johnson, George Bush, Sr., Herbert Hoover and a lot of other people would have been put in prison for murdering his brother.
Don't you mean J. Edgar Hoover? Herbert died in 1964. You did not mention the Mafia who RFK was trying to squash.
What!? Did they all murder his brother together? That's teamwork!
Absolutely true and there would have been early rapprochement with the Soviets and the Federal Reserve Bank would have been closed along with wall street lobbyists
@@bobo0202 its called the deep state
The deep state resides only in the minds of the far right lunatics.
This is the last time I will ever watch anything from this channel. There's nothing wrong with a documentary about RFK but don't try to trick an audience into watching with a clickbait title that has little to do with the actual content of the episode.
He would be dancing just because of the C.I.A. Being dismantled, never mind the rest of it! Promise you!
@Jamie Ellman ok
One thing's for sure if he wasn't assinated,
Nixon never, ever would have won the president ellections of 1968
The greatest president that never was!!!!! The end of the 1960’s a loss of incalculable proportions.
RFK is a hero to me. This is exactly the president we need. Someone like him could save this country. God bless his soul. It's a real tragedy. He would have made America so much stronger.
We love Bobby he was a beast at the mic When we lived in Compton and Watts he came I was 8 I remember vividly
If anyone doubts that Bobby Kennedy would have been one of the greatest American Presidents of all time, you need only play them the “Tiny Little Ripple Of Hope” speech.
Easily one of the most amazing and sincere speeches ever given. A rousing and call to the proverbial arms for the lower and and middle classes.
A 70% tax rate on those making more than $200,000 a year.
Can you imagine?
2 harmonic notes ringing down through the yrs. There's something happening here, I think they'll outlast us all.
I was a child when we lost Robert Kennedy and my first memory in life was my mother sitting on the floor in front of the TV weeping because we had lost John Kennedy. I was raised listening to the speeches of these Great Men the same way Roberts son Bobby was. Because of that I am so wholeheartedly excited to be able to have my opportunity to vote for a Kennedy for president of the United States.
President Biden has refused Secret Service protection for Robert Kennedy Jr. At the same time his son Hunter and his family are protected by Secret Service. This is Despicable and President Biden needs to stop playing politics with people's lives. The reason why presidential candidates get secret service protection is because of Robert F Kennedy Junior's father's assassination while he was running for president. I think it's just despicable that Joe Biden is refusing this man protection.
#clusterbombsRwarcrimes
#forcethedebate
#Kennedy24
agreeeeeeeed 1000% RFK JR 2024...there is no other hope. we have one more chance for someone amazing !
My hero would’ve been the greatest president America ever know.
He went after the wrong people and renigged on the seal . They were supposed to leave the wiseguys alone after gianccana got jfk elected. Mess with the bull ... you get the horns
O please he wasn't god but compared to the left wing nut jobs today there's no more like him left.
@@terrypbug Left wing nuts? There is no left wing in the US, only right wing idiots completely brainwashed.
@@love-vy1ry you're a fool to we like freedom you love socialism
@@terrypbug Brainwashed, as I thought.
It's the day hope died. The sun set and it never rose again. My own grief I could never trust myself to write. 😢😥😢🤮.
I think that liberal America died with Bobby. As someone living in England and France all my life but relatives in Florida I see nothing attractive about Trump's America nor Brexit Britain it is all so divisive and inward looking. His assassination and MLK definitely changed history as
did the sinking of the White Ship 25th November 1120 900 years ago.
We still have hope for better world. God bless us all
Okay here is go..
Bobby went t to e slums..these kids hugged him li
He fed these hungry children
He was.a kind person check it out. He would have
Changed the world
Some of us wonder how things would have played out re: Eugene McCarthy. He and RFK opposed the Vietnam War, but there was concern that dividing such opposition would end up giving party control to a different faction.
10:47 Joe McCarthy, not Eugene!
As someone who remembers 1968, I often thought of what-if myself. I see my favorite Justice William Brennan as Chief, not Burger-brains, and Arthur Goldberg back on the Court. Therefore, I also see many of our eroded rights upheld, less coddling crooked cops, and so on.
you can rest easy with the what ifs. the dose of reality is that no Democrat was gonna beat Nixon in 1968. not because of Nixon but because George Wallace would have split the democrat vote. Bobby wasn't gonna beat Wallace in those southern states either.
i loved RFK...RIP...i believe that he would have been one o the greatest prez of all time!!!!
It's interesting that in speaking about Joseph Kennedy, they neglected to mention the millions he made in bootlegging,
I admire Bobby Kennedy for a lot of reasons but lost some respect for him for only deciding to take on LBJ after McCarthy did so well in New Hampshire. I don't buy the claim that he had decided to run before that.
anything like how in 2016 who ran on the Dem side? Hillary and who? Bernie wasn't known and no one knows the other 2-3 that ran. Why? SHE was promised the nomination. Proof is 2020, how many Dems ran?
Oh yeah??!!!... so what!!! Trump made millions scamming people!!!
@@gregoryhelton2408 No he didn't. But keep believing what you are told to.
Actually, RFK did not announce for '68 (although it was coming) until AFTER Johnson bowed out.
Very True - The sins of the Father ....
Lindon B Johnson was a sneaky greed. We can never forget the "wink" before he got sworn in when Kennedy got wacked. Then Bobbi got snubbed. Coincidence? I'd say no. Johnson always wanted to be first not second. Being VP was never enough for that guy.
during camelot jackie was a queen then she had to flee the country for fear of her life into the arms of an old man. Gee America dont ever wake up while criminals steal your country- send another 2 trillion to kabul
Here we go again..
@@themaskedman221 ya says a guy named "The Masked Man" .
@@Vamanaswastika Right, let's just listen to the guy named Joker as he expounds another hackneyed conspiracy theory about the Kennedy assassination. Because after 58 years (almost to the day!) it hasn't gotten old yet.
@@themaskedman221 sure masked man. Whatever you say . Now go play with your dinkie cars. Make sure to park the yellow one next to the pink.
imagine if RFK, JFK, malcom x, and mlk would have lived. :(
Malcom X was the only decent one, though he was slipping there at the end.
not much. much of the influence these people have on history is *because* they got assassinated.
what an incredible re-writing of history. I came here because ever since June 6, 1968 I have had the same thought as is proposed in the title of this docu-whatever, but I can't get past the Cuban missile part. I wonder if this thing is mis-titled.
Geez... The "what if" starts about 41:25 and lasts all of two minutes! A totally mis-titled presentation.
I say he would've been elected without a doubt. The country saw him as a beacon of light in a time when the USA was trying to find its identity again.
What a good leader, he was one of the beat president we ever and mean ever had. He was for all people. Bless his heart. Please listen to his speech it will make you proud to be a American!
We are on a precipice. To choose to bring into a reality such a vision that would forever change the life of humanity or to fold to forces of evil which will destroy even the ability to have that vision. America has never been isolated in its effect on the world. The times of these two brothers were watched with wonder and hope and then finally mourned. A hideous, heinous force which today must be finally dismantled and destroyed. My prayers are for the vision to shine on all nations.
Whenever someone brings hope to the masses, they are taken away from us.
Must there always be the damned background music that drowns out the dialogue?
No Nam.
No Watergate.
No more racial injustice.
You figure it out.
America's last chance.
no nam? not really. nam was already in full swing at that point. in fact rfk probably would have been the guy overseeing the US lose that war, not nixon.
no more racial injustice? lmao the civil rights act had already passed! and in its place was the Drug War, which sure, i dont think RFK would have created, but im sure a future republican still would. in fact most of his accomplishments could get reversed the second he leaves office.
what if he WAITED and ran in 76 top advisors wanted him 2 do.
he would have lost to Regan in 79.
what if he did not go after organized crime to get back at his dad for
psychologically ignoring him as a kid, and having his dad focus all his
ATTENTION on JFK...sins of the father will always hold true in the end
That's nice! First, you wrote Ronny's name wrong. Well... only 2 days ago, I saw a discussion from 1967 about Vietnam, with Reagan and RFK. R.R. was gouvener at that time, RFK. Senator. Both made a very good impression, but RFK seems to be more honest, more reflected. You could never know.
Btw. Here is it...
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See my what if about Daley Plaza, JFK surviving and the Kennedy family backing Teddy above.
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Saw it myself, interesting performances by both men. Remember, the 2nd half of the 20th Century is filled with the bodies of political enemies who under estimated Ronald (Ronny-Regan) Reagan.
@@kevinbergin9971 In fact, I hated him, at the start of his pesidency. But, after the years, he was a good guy. For me as an European, the autmn of '83 was a horrible time. Indeed it came out, after the cold war, that in November '83 soviet fighter bombers with runnig engines and tac. nuke under the wing, sittin' at the runway and waitin' for their attack orders. The target wasn't not 25 miles away, from my parents home. It was scary at all, to get such an information, 20 years later...
I love him as much as my siblings ! ! ! 😢😢😢❤ RIP Boby Kennedy .
We all would be a lot better off. Damn the people who killed him. They are in control now and we're all doomed
Herr Lackner! It's such a german name. Did your family take the "German Angst", over the great pond? Greeds from the old home and stay strong!
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen
That quote, 'Contain the savageness of man, and make gentle the light of this world,' how else would you state that? It must come from the HEART...Oh Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets?
My old man is a gut conservative, but he loved Bobby Kennedy, probably because of his reputation for toughness... he was the last chance we had to unite the country and that misguided Sirhan Sirhan took the opportunity away
why would he be able to unite anything? politics is inherently divisive and he probably would have had to preside over the vietnam withdrawal debacle.
People talk about all the time how Johnson quit because of Vietnam but the truth is he knew the men in his family died early and he didn’t want to put the nation through that. He died in 1973 god only knows how much shorter if he ran again,
There's also the theory that Kennedy paid Johnson off not to run. That way he didn't have to campaign against an incumbent like Ted vs. Jimmy Carter in 1980 or Hillary vs. Obama in 2012. Johnson certainly had his price, and the Kennedys could certainly afford it.
This was a time we needed them YOU have to question all the hands in killing them. This family saw more than they should have as a family.
I think he might’ve been our greatest president if he’d lived
He’d have showed us aliens
How can you say that?
@@dennistedder3384 Because he believed in good things. He got killed in the same way all the leftist leaders did at that time. Then we got Nixon and the Southern Strategy and the working class divided along race lines. The late sixties were a crossroads where this country could have gone on an entirely better trajectory. It tried to do so, but was violently redirected when the left's leaders all got their brains blown out in public. Funny how that happened.
I am a very conservative Republican and I agree with everything he stood for.
So you're also a fan of the Jimmy Carter presidency?
It hurts to think what could have been with RFK...But we me must not put those dreams to rest, for the sake of the world!
It's moving and true how Bobby suffered and eventually became his own man, with the support of others like Jackie Kennedy. He became so much aware of other people and other experiences .
He hooked up with jackie many times before jfk assisination. Loyal brother huh?
@@wolverine67044 also marylin Monroe as did his brother
RFK was a tragic loss for the US. Had he lived America would have been much better because he CARED.
If RFK had lived. he probably would have been a viable candidate in 1972. There is no way he would wrested the nomination from HHH in 1968, especially with LBJ pulling the strings at the convention from his ranch. Johnson would have stopped at nothing to deny Bobby the nomination in Chicago. Personally, I think that Humphrey would have made a better president than Bobby, although in 1968, RFK would have beaten Nixon in a way that HHH simply couldn't, due to Humphrey's loyal attachment to LBJ.
We wouldn't have suffered through Nixon (and Agnew). We probably wouldn't have had the disastrous 'War On Drugs'. We certainly wouldn't have had Watergate. We might not have had the killings at Kent State.
Ever notice now when there is an "on" in their plan, it really is "of"? I do.😉
he would have been one of the best for sure.
What if President John Kennedy had lived?
He would have won 1964 for sure and then would it be possible that Bobby would have won 1968 and 1972, or maybe 1972 and 1976???... Then we could have gone straight to Reagan in 1980, bypassing Nixon and especially the evil Johnson completely! What totally different outcomes we would have had!!! I’ve wondered about what could have been the result quite a few times!
I absolutely agreed with you. JFK could earned his second term in office in 1964. RFK could won his presidency in 1968 and get reelected in 1972. During their administration, JFK would let the young voters the right to vote and have better opportunities to work so they could save some money to pursue their education.
35. John F. Kennedy 1961-1969
36. Robert F. Kennedy 1969-1977
37. James E. Carter 1977-1981
38. Ronald W. Reagan 1981-1989
39. George H.W. Bush 1989-1993
40. William J. Clinton 1993-2001
41. John McCain 2001-2009
42. Barack H. Obama 2009-2017
43. Joseph R. Biden 2017-2025
44. Kamala D. Harris 2025-
@@ignaciomarquez6062 I highly disagree with you, especially the scary part about Kamala. If you think Biden will last until he’s 86, I think you’re wrong. We’ve never even had a president who was in his 80s before. I don’t think it’s possible for, especially Biden, from the way he is now, to last that long.
The only thing I agree with about your timeline is that it Robert Kennedy would have been president when you say, we could have avoided Johnson and our involvement in the Vietnam war!
Also, if the Kennedy’s were presidents now, in our day and age, they would not have the radical views and policies that Biden is signing off on today!!
My turn to play "What If." See above.
What if JFK had not turned in to Daley Plaza and survived that trip to Texas. Bobby stays on as Attorney General and does not run for the Senate in '64-in NY State. He does not get a 17 minute standing ovation at the Democratic Convention in 1964 and spends a 2nd term playing Kennedy family bulldog and also the guy who smooths over Jack's peccadilloes.
When eventually it becomes time for a Kennedy to run for President again (please don't suggest 1968 that's too soon) the family turns to Teddy in the mid 1970s; by then a veteran US Senator in the majority.