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"Oh, THAT meeting! The one where we discussed assisinating Senators? Oh, yeah! I was there, I just forgot about it."

Right! The TWO DAY meeting. He just forgot that one!

Now wait a minute everyone, it was a full agenda at at these meetings: overthrowing the government, killing senators, demonstrations, etc. No wonder he can't remember! :)

Someone has to ask Kerry this: as a serving Senator would you expect a citizen to report discussions of killing Senators to the FBI?

When he says yes it's a citizen's duty.

The appropriate response is: Then why didn't you do it?

I think it is quite possible that he doesn't remember attending this meeting because talk of assassinating Lyndon Johnson, then Nixon was so prevalent in this era. I'm sure it had to have been discussed prior to the meeting in question. I went to UC Berkeley from '70-'73 and the place was full of radical punk students, "ex soldiers" (or so we thought!), and professional agitators expounding on various ways to end the war. It was easy to get caught up in the excitement.
Assassinations were openly discussed with impunity. After all, it was the era of FREEE SPEEECH, but I'm sure there were lots of FBI taking notes. Most on campus just thought of it as talk, but certainly some were serious.
Also due to the prevalence of smokey refreshments served at these meetings it is possible he wouldn't have remembered a thing anyway.
Not to exonerate Kerry in any way. There's still no excuse for him to not to have grown up.