The Lever.

My thanks to all of you, and now it's on to Chicago and let's win there.

Senator Robert Francis Kennedy died at 144 a.m. today, June 6, 1968.

We just finished the last episode in the mid-1970s, so you might be wondering, what are we doing back in 1968?

And also, what does RFK have to do with a master plan to legalize corruption?

Don't worry. I'm not going down a rabbit hole of Kennedy conspiracies, but stay with me here.

You know that whole idea of chaos theory? The short hand is the butterfly effect. A butterfly can

flap its wings in Beijing and Central Park you get rain instead of central. Well, the death of

RFK had cascading effects that I don't think even the best politicos could have ever predicted.

It was the first flap of the butterfly's wings.

There were a few huge, obvious ripple effects from RFK's assassination.

The Democrats nominated Hubert Humphrey in the disastrous 1968 Democratic Convention,

which led to Richard Nixon getting elected and then, of course, Watergate. But there was another often overlooked

consequence, a tiny ripple that the master planners capitalized on, that's still making waves

today. Kennedy's assassination left a vacancy in the U.S. Senate,

which New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller filled with a relatively obscure member of his own party,

rather than with another Democrat.

Governor Nelson Rockefeller today named New York Republican Congressman Charles Goodell to the Senate seat of the late Robert Kennedy.

The term expires in January 1971.

Representative Charles Goodell, today mostly known as the father of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

But after Kennedy's assassination, Goodell was plucked from the House to finish out the late

Senator Kennedy's term. Two years later, in 1970, Goodell was running for from the House to finish out the late Senator Kennedy's term.

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