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June 5, 1968 - On This Day In History: Robert F. Kennedy Shot
History.com ^ | June 5, 2007 | History.com

Posted on 06/05/2007 9:38:26 AM PDT by DogByte6RER

1968 - Robert F. Kennedy shot

At 12:50 a.m. PDT, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a presidential candidate, is shot three times in a hail of gunfire in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Five others were wounded. The senator had just completed a speech celebrating his victory in the California presidential primary. The shooter, Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, had a smoking .22 revolver wrested from his grip and was promptly arrested. Kennedy, critically wounded, was rushed to the hospital, where he fought for his life in the next 24 hours. On the morning of June 6, he died. He was 42 years old.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: assasination; assassin; history; islamofascism; kennedy; palestinian; rfk
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To: F15Eagle
PFLP was a Christian founded terrorist group That's an oxymoron.

A pan-Arab Marxist group, as were all of the original PLO members, enamored of Che, more accurate to call them athiests. Over the years it's become Islamist.

41 posted on 06/05/2007 11:29:06 AM PDT by SJackson (Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything, Andre Malra ux)
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To: Badeye

I’ve always wondered if Jack was such a stoner, how could he get it “up” so often for all his chicks?


42 posted on 06/05/2007 11:35:25 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

‘I’ve always wondered if Jack was such a stoner, how could he get it “up” so often for all his chicks?’

Depends on the drug and the constitution of the person taking it in my experience.


43 posted on 06/05/2007 11:39:41 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: dfwgator
"The Swimmer has killed as many people as Sirhan Sirhan."

Directly. That we know of.

If you count the results of policies he's either devised, advocated or supported, the number reaches into the millions in SE asia alone....

44 posted on 06/05/2007 11:45:41 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: rockabyebaby
"...wonder what this country would be like now if Jack and Bobby lived..."

This film suggests at least one possibility.....

45 posted on 06/05/2007 11:49:32 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: SJackson

“Suicide bombing didn’t seem to catch on with them.

Without the virgins, it probably doesn’t seem like such a good idea.


46 posted on 06/05/2007 1:19:42 PM PDT by ga medic
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To: Cicero
Yeah well, I met Mike Mansfield and shook his hand at a lecture-;)

He was no prima donna, just a good man like the West makes'um.

For those too young to know: Senator Mike Mansfield represented his home state of Montana for several terms as a Republican, then was appointed ambassador to Japan.

The way I saw it, Bobby Kennedy stole the thunder of Gene McCartney in his anti-war pursuit of the presidency. He was a prima donna for that reason alone (but your story adds to my beliefs about him).

And then there's the stories about Marilyn......

47 posted on 06/05/2007 3:06:27 PM PDT by happygrl (Dunderhead for HONOR)
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To: happygrl
For those too young to know: Senator Mike Mansfield represented his home state of Montana for several terms as a Republican, then was appointed ambassador to Japan.

Mansfield was a Democrat (and was Senate Majority Leader when the Democrats held the Senate).

48 posted on 06/05/2007 3:13:02 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: DogByte6RER
And on this day the news media went berserk, blaming the shooting on violence in movies, violence on tv, violent comic books, the VN war.

But they held a special hatred for...GUNS!
The JFK, Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King shootings were used to kindle the fire, and the Bobby Kennedy killing set off a conflagration.

The result was ,
less violent comic books for a while, a very short while.
Dumbed down TV shows, More kid friendly, less shooting or adult themes.
Movie moguls declared they would police themselves with a rating system (Censorship is gone! More violence and nudity! have at it boys).
And that travesty imposed on us, the 1968 Gun Control Act (the Nazi Weapons act of the 1930’s rewritten by Thomas J. Dodd.)

Dodd had been trying for seven years to get gun control in the US. And the 1968 law was mild compared to what he really wanted. The NRA managed to cool things down a little.

In that year I learned the worst legislation can be bought by PORK! The 1968 GCL was passed only because it contained a large amount of money for each state to be used for “Crime Control”

It’s like another law in 1994 that only passed because it contained a large amount of money for “crime control”, the AWB.

To get a feeling what it was like in 1968, you should go to a public library and take a look at their magazine archives for LIFE, LOOK and SATURDAY EVENING POST to to see what madness we were up against.

49 posted on 06/05/2007 3:16:36 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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To: DogByte6RER; The KG9 Kid

Mafia, StoneCutters, LBJ, Castro, Space Aliens, Right Wing Conspiracy....

Oops. Sorry. Wrong Thread.


50 posted on 06/05/2007 3:19:34 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: hometoroost

Good thing we faked the moon landing to make everything all better, right?


51 posted on 06/05/2007 3:22:49 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: Shooter 2.5

Any of those explanations make more sense than saying it was a Muslim plot (not that that’s saying much). All I’m saying is that if you like to think about who could have been behind the shootings (other than a random nut) the Kennedy’s left plenty of people with motive and ability.


52 posted on 06/05/2007 3:30:23 PM PDT by hometoroost (TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
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To: happygrl

Agreed, Mike Mansfield was a good man. He kept the Senate in line, but he never did it corruptly or cynically the way LBJ did. I’ve often said that the Senate Republicans need someone like Mansfield to straighten them out, instead of the spineless losers they keep putting in charge.


53 posted on 06/05/2007 3:47:40 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: DogByte6RER

I had been working hard the the Eugene McCarthy campain when word came he had been shot. Boy have I changed politically in 39 years.Too bad Teddy did not change as well.


54 posted on 06/05/2007 3:53:06 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Lurking Libertarian
Thank you for correcting me.

That's embarrassing; I lived in Montana when he was their Senator. I must have been too young to pay attention.

He was one of the old-school Scoop Jackson Democrats. I would not fear for my country if more Democrats were like him.

55 posted on 06/05/2007 4:36:12 PM PDT by happygrl (Dunderhead for HONOR)
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To: Vaquero

That’s my favorite episode of ‘From The Earth To The Moon’.


56 posted on 06/05/2007 7:47:58 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: hometoroost

Sirhan was in prison and he asked the other inmates if they could steal a pound of something, what would it be? They answered diamonds, gold, valuables.

He answered weapons grade plutonium.


57 posted on 06/05/2007 7:59:47 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: Shooter 2.5

And that proves what? He wasn’t a Muslim.


58 posted on 06/05/2007 8:37:41 PM PDT by hometoroost (TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
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To: hometoroost

Link please.


59 posted on 06/06/2007 5:18:26 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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