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The Michael Berry Show

Today Is The 55th Anniversary Of The Assassination Of Robert Kennedy

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

The Michael Berry Show

0:22.4

Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man of wealth and taste

0:30.9

I've been around for a long long year. I stole many a man's soul's faith.

0:39.4

I was around when Jesus Christ had his moment of doubt and pain.

0:47.6

Me damn sure the fighter watched his hands the seal his face.

0:53.6

Please to meet you, hope you guess my name, but why puzzling you is the nature of my

1:09.6

game. Mick Jagger would insert into the lyrics who killed the Kennedys after on

1:19.4

this day in 1968 Senator Robert Kennedy was shot three times while exiting through a kitchen at

1:25.7

a hotel where he delivered a speech after winning the Democrat nomination for president of the United

1:33.4

States. The event would prompt David Crosby to write long time gone and of course Mick Jagger to

1:42.3

insert the lyrics who killed the Kennedys into sympathy for the devil. The ABC News report

1:49.6

on this day 55 years ago. A reporter for the Mutual Broadcasting System Andy West was in the

1:58.9

hallway, the kitchen hallway in the ambassador hotel last night when Senator Kennedy was shot

2:03.8

he is perhaps the man who was closest to the Senator when the shots were fired. Let's go back now

2:08.7

to that hour last night. First Senator Kennedy in victory and then the voice of reporter West

2:16.4

as our camera show the panic that gripped the scene. So I thank all of you who made this

2:23.7

possible this evening all of the effort that you made and all of the people whose names I haven't

2:28.4

mentioned but who made all did all of the work at the precinct level who got out the vote

2:33.8

who did all of the effort to rock forth all of the efforts that's required. I was a campaign

2:38.2

manager eight years ago. I know what a difference that kind of an effort and that kind of commitment

2:43.9

so I thank all of you. We'll give you one here.

2:53.3

Mary, Mary Yordi has just sent me a message that we've been here too long already.

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