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Post by Zyobot on Jan 2, 2020 15:24:47 GMT
Even if RFK lives and takes office, I assume that conspiracy theories will surround him and the Kennedy line throughout his tenure? Knowing him and his family, I fear that something could happen to him while he’s POTUS. Something can always happen if you are president of the United States. True, but even then, his family has an especially unlucky track record. So maybe there’s a potential double whammy there. |
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Post by lordroel on Jan 2, 2020 15:26:22 GMT
Something can always happen if you are president of the United States. True, but even then, his family has an especially unlucky track record. So maybe there’s a potential double whammy there. Well Ted Kennedy mange to live to the age of 77, so maybe RFK can also live that long. |
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Post by dayton3 on Jan 2, 2020 20:09:18 GMT
True, but even then, his family has an especially unlucky track record. So maybe there’s a potential double whammy there. Well Ted Kennedy mange to live to the age of 77, so maybe RFK can also live that long. JFK was ironically the truly sickly one of the immediate Kennedy family. |
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Post by insect on Jan 2, 2020 20:41:39 GMT
If Robert Kennedy gets elected president he will be in the shadow of his brother. Also.Robert wiretapped m.l.k.if that comes out there will be some controversy
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Post by James G on Jan 2, 2020 20:47:04 GMT
Also.Robert wiretapped m.l.k.if that comes out there will be some controversy I doubt anyone would care back then, especially should leaks of such tapes come. Today would be a different story. Regardless, I thought it was the FBI under Hoover, not RFK even though he was AG, who was doing that. In theory, the FBI was answerable to the Justice Department but Hoover did his own thing. |
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Post by shaunafromthegully on Jan 3, 2020 0:00:07 GMT
James G,A lot of white people only accepted MLK as the "safe" alternative to "scary" Malcolm X. etc. Also, the modern world has cherrypicked which bits of MLK's speeches and beliefs are taught in schools and remembered in pop culture etc.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 3, 2020 2:52:51 GMT
James G,A lot of white people only accepted MLK as the "safe" alternative to "scary" Malcolm X. etc. Also, the modern world has cherrypicked which bits of MLK's speeches and beliefs are taught in schools and remembered in pop culture etc. Again, what does this have to do with RFK becoming president. |
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Post by shaunafromthegully on Jan 18, 2020 9:49:45 GMT
a post I saw on the coverage of RFK's murder:
"CBS had signed off an hour earlier because they were the only network to make a hard projection of RFK as the winner. NBC and ABC were still on the air because they never made a projection due to a breakdown in reporting votes from LA County. It was only based on the alternate model that CBS used that RFK was able to declare victory. Consequently, both ABC and NBC carried RFK's victory speech but both broke away from the platform before the commotion happened.
This is where it got more hectic. ABC did a quick wrap-up and was rolling the end credits (to the strains of Sousa's "Thunderer" march) when during the end-credits, the news of the shooting happened (you can see Howard K. Smith in a wide shot reacting to the news. His head jerks up and he frantically starts putting his microphone back on. ABC then "held the air" by keeping a wide shot of the studio and an announcer said "Please stand by", but because they didn't get immediate confirmation, ABC replayed the "Thunderer" march for over three minutes before Smith finally went back on and mentioned "An alarming report that Robert Kennedy was shot."
NBC though really botched things up. They were starting to go into a "wind-up" mode when Frank McGee apparently got orders to vamp because he then started to talk about the upcoming NY primary and other things. Over five minutes went by, even AFTER ABC was already reporting a shooting before McGee finally threw it back to LA and acknowledged that they had been standing by waiting for some kind of confirmation before mentioning it and they'd been stalling all this time (and all the time McGee had been operating under the assumption that the report was of RFK getting shot in the hip; when Charles Quinn, the reporter on the scene said it was the head, he was taken aback).
CBS didn't get back on the air until over 20 minutes after the shooting with Joseph Benti, the anchor of the CBS Morning News doing the studio coverage."
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