Mourning Bobby Kennedy

Retropod

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History, Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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We're taking a little break over the holidays to look back on some of the best Retropod episodes from 2018. Today, we look back on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

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0:14.4	Hey, history lovers.
0:15.9	I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, rediscovered.
0:22.8	With the holiday season upon us, we're taking a little break.
0:27.6	So for the next few days, we're replaying some of our favorite episodes from 2018.
0:33.7	We'll be back after the new year with more fascinating and fun discoveries from the past.
0:40.4	Happy holidays.
0:41.9	Now, on with the show.
0:48.7	June 5, 1968.
0:54.3	Senator Robert F. Kennedy takes the podium at the Ambassador Hotel in California.
0:59.1	It's late. He has just won the state's Democratic primary for president.
1:04.7	So my thanks to all of you, and now it's on to Chicago and let's win there.
1:12.4	Those would be some of the final words in his life.
1:16.3	Suddenly, shots ringing.
1:20.0	It is possible.
1:21.5	He has not only Senator Kennedy.
1:23.8	Oh, my God.
1:25.3	Senator Kennedy has been shot.
1:28.1	First, his brother, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. Now Bobby,
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