Lucky, lucky you. I just count my lucky stars that I was alive at this time. Of course we did not know what was ahead. That he would not live much longer, nor would there ever be another politician as great as Bobby, though I feared when he died that we were defeated.
We don't hear political candidates, Republican or Democrat, talking about lower-class poverty, an anti-materialistic ethic, and the morality of aggressive war. Nothing that speaks to our better angels. How far we have fallen as a nation.
pcsbeat AGREED. A beautiful man with so much love and compassion to offer the world. Unforgettable and wise beyond his years as well as caring and thoughtful easily one of the best men that this country has ever seen in the 20th century !!!
My heart aches and rejoices at the same time, when I listen to RFK. I am an Indian living in the United States, and I feel the same sense of responsibility as a global citizen, as a youth, as RFK did.
Wow. That was powerful. Truly powerful. His words are just so full of hope and undaunted faith in America. I think he'd be ashamed at what's happened to the country.
I'm very jealous. I was born 21 years after his death. When I was six I by chance saw a documentary on RFK and it changed my life. I wish there was a way to let him know that his voice, his wisdom has echoed down the generation.
It was delivered at KU. You are correct. That's why everyone laughed when he said "K-State sends their love to all of you..." This is because KState is the rival of the jayhawks.
Dear Andy, Thanx for posting this important speech, as well as the others that you've made more easily available. You're doing an important public service. I have the honor to be Cordial-Lee yours, Paul Lee
Beautiful inspiring speech. How he treats the internal inflicting situation in his country is poignant and so much full of anger behind the majesty of rheteoric. It shows how one politician should regard the problems of his or her time, acknowledging and denouncing the terrible facts of social and political disorders in a country which generates so much inequalities in its cities and in its rural areas.This speech is humanely powerful. The observation of young Native Americans committing suicide out of despair, foreseeing nothing good for the future, is a devastating statement not many in high offices dared to speak of. The obervation over Vietnam are also extremely relevant, as he condemns the policy of intervention of the USA, making one's war their own war, swallowing whole countries in unnecessary combats and deaths when negotiation should be the motto to set peace. RFK was a true committed politician who spoke volumes of truths. This is what I call political incorrectness, this is what it is to simultaneously denouce a terrible humane situation while guiding hopes for the future.
Frankly It is repugnant that Marco Rubio has a commercial as a lead in to a Robert Kennedy speech. Rubio stands opposed to everything bobby kennedy advocated. Not surprised you have been bought
RFK's effect on the audience was galvanic. The people absolutely adored him. Some newspapermen in the audience were awed and dumbstruck. This was, after all, Kansas, a very red state, staunchly conservative and indeed historically hostile to much of what Kennedy said. As the waves of applause grew louder and louder like fierce ocean waves, one newsman said, "This is fucking Kansas, fucking Kansas, he's going all the way, he's going all the way." And he would have gone all the way but the bastards killed him. BTW: There is evidence suggesting that a conspiracy was at play: Witnesses heard about 7 shots.
Some people have asked when this speech was made and the context of the speech. This speech was made on March 18, 1968. Let me provide the relevant explosive developments so you will realize just how and why everything was so combustible at the moment of this speech: A) ON January 30 or 31 of 68, The North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive. Their successes made every prophecy of LBJ and General Westmoreland, that we would soon win, look like LIES B) 500 American boys were dying a week. That doesn't include the lost arms and legs and testicles destroyed by "Bouncing Betty" land mines. C) On March 12, Eugene MC Carthy, who also opposed the war, won 42 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary. The political pros said he would get 10 percent. D) Kennedy announced his candidacy on Saturday March 16 E) On March 17, he marched in New York's St Patrick Days Parade and Jackie Kennedy blew him a kiss from her apartment. (Conservative Irish people booed him at the parade because he was against the war)) F) On the night of March 17, he changed planes at an airport in the midwest at 1 AM in the morning and at 1 AM in the morning 5000 people were there to greet him. G) And then, on March 18, he gives this speech. H) And then, until the end of March, he barnstorms the nation, passionately fighting to end the war in Vietnam and to bring about Justice at home. HIS CAMPAIGNING, AT THE END OF MARCH, WAS STUPENDOUS AND EXHILERATING. He GAVE THE WAR HAWKS UTTER HELL. I) At the end of March, Johnson withdraws from the race. j) On April 4, Martin Luther king is killed There is so much more to say and that I would love to elaborate on, but I gotta go.
This is mislabeled. This is his first speech March 18, at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. I was there, and took photos. Later he went on to University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS and spoke there to an equally enthusiastic student body. The photo shown here was taken at KSU in the Field Auditorium. Great speech. So well crafted, such an indictment of the Vietnam War--tells you all you need to know as to why we shouldn't be there at the time. Also addresses the divide between the rich and poor at home, and inequality. He was passionate about finding solutions to lift up both black and white Americans stuck in a cycle of poverty without hope. Reoccurring theme of his primary race. "Some men see things as they are and wonder why: I see things that never were, and wonder, Why Not?" quoting from George Bernard Shaw (loosely).
It's not mislabeled, the picture used for the video is merely from the earlier speech he delivered at Kansas State. The recording itself is definitely from the KU speech. In the first 30 seconds of the recording he mentions the chancellor (K-State has never had one), and then he makes his little joke about K-State sending its love.
Thanks for posting this. In regard to whether this was delivered at KU or KSU...the JFK Library website says KU, which agrees with the joke made regarding KSU.
It was delivered in Allen Field House on the campus of the University of Kansas. Still the event with the largest attendance in the 60 year old building 18,000+ as students sat on the floor and in the aisles. RFK you were 100% correct in all aspects of the speech.
Unless he delivered speeches on the same day, I found 2 different transcripts...this one seems to attach to KU, but the picture looks KSU. Is that Ahearn or Allen??
You should listen to the entirety of the speech. The opening section of the speech is the WORST part of the speech; here he's only getting warmed up. Further on in the speech he has his strongest, most lacerating indictments against poverty, the unquenchable thirst for every increasing affluence that serves no purpose and, most importantly, and gallantly, against the Vietnam War. This section is DUMB. This is the intro to the speech and you are denigrating his memory by showing the "Cute Bobby," beloved by teenyboppers and very young school girls. Bobby could deliver body blows against the establishment. Show that part of him!!!
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I was in the audience for this speech. It was electrifying.
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Lucky, lucky you. I just count my lucky stars that I was alive at this time. Of course we did not know what was ahead. That he would not live much longer, nor would there ever be another politician as great as Bobby, though I feared when he died that we were defeated.
What was it like to be there?
We don't hear political candidates, Republican or Democrat, talking about lower-class poverty, an anti-materialistic ethic, and the morality of aggressive war. Nothing that speaks to our better angels. How far we have fallen as a nation.
Andre Bichara ysincus
Andre Bichara Bernie Sanders has been saying this for decades.
Boy, could sure use him now...
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pcsbeat AGREED. A beautiful man with so much love and compassion to offer the world. Unforgettable and wise beyond his years as well as caring and thoughtful easily one of the best men that this country has ever seen in the 20th century !!!
My heart aches and rejoices at the same time, when I listen to RFK. I am an Indian living in the United States, and I feel the same sense of responsibility as a global citizen, as a youth, as RFK did.
Siddharth Manu ysincus
I want to know who’s responsible for his and his brothers murder American???
This man cared. He really cared.
Wow. That was powerful. Truly powerful. His words are just so full of hope and undaunted faith in America. I think he'd be ashamed at what's happened to the country.
RevanSTARKiller47 ysincus
Had he lived I believe that our country would be a better place than it is now.
I was 14 and in the crowd.
Same as I. Perhaps we were school mates?
jo3nhen ysincus
I was 13 and there as well. We met him after the speech. I think about him often, especially these days.
I'm very jealous. I was born 21 years after his death. When I was six I by chance saw a documentary on RFK and it changed my life. I wish there was a way to let him know that his voice, his wisdom has echoed down the generation.
jgrisso07 ysincus
His son is speaking the same, and we have a chance to get him in office in 2024!
It was delivered at KU. You are correct. That's why everyone laughed when he said "K-State sends their love to all of you..." This is because KState is the rival of the jayhawks.
apope06 ysincus
I was there for the Lawrence speech, so I am an eyewitness.
Steve Wilson ysincus
Great speech, moving and meaningful to this day. The anti-GDP section (from 16:30 to 18:05) is classic - has never been better said, before or since.
Bill Orme ysincus
Very true. His words ring true and are needed today.
Dear Andy,
Thanx for posting this important speech, as well as the others that you've made more easily available. You're doing an important public service. I have the honor to be
Cordial-Lee yours,
Paul Lee
Paul Lee ysincus
"JOY WAS IN THOSE DAYS, BUT TO LIVE."
apope06 ysincus
important issues in 1968 as it is today-2017.
Richard David ysincus
RFK Jr. Need to use this speech and change it to fit today crisis. Much of it is revelant today!
Sounds just like his brother, JFK. Both great men, full of wisdom, compassion, intelligence and integrity.
Which is why they were killed ... the country was too full of hate perhaps still ...
Andy Wong, thank you for sharing these prescient and powerful speeches!❤
Beautiful inspiring speech. How he treats the internal inflicting situation in his country is poignant and so much full of anger behind the majesty of rheteoric. It shows how one politician should regard the problems of his or her time, acknowledging and denouncing the terrible facts of social and political disorders in a country which generates so much inequalities in its cities and in its rural areas.This speech is humanely powerful. The observation of young Native Americans committing suicide out of despair, foreseeing nothing good for the future, is a devastating statement not many in high offices dared to speak of. The obervation over Vietnam are also extremely relevant, as he condemns the policy of intervention of the USA, making one's war their own war, swallowing whole countries in unnecessary combats and deaths when negotiation should be the motto to set peace. RFK was a true committed politician who spoke volumes of truths. This is what I call political incorrectness, this is what it is to simultaneously denouce a terrible humane situation while guiding hopes for the future.
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Frankly It is repugnant that Marco Rubio has a commercial as a lead in to a Robert Kennedy speech. Rubio stands opposed to everything bobby kennedy advocated. Not surprised you have been bought
Henry Fiengo ysincus
and inspiring every time I listen to him every so often :)
Mark D Head ysincus
I remember people here in Ireland were on the streets crying over rfk assignation. We all said not again .
A good man.
Mark D Head ysincus
His indictment of both the GDP - (greed) - and the war in Vietnam, I believe showed courage beyond the norm.
RFK's effect on the audience was galvanic. The people absolutely adored him. Some newspapermen in the audience were awed and dumbstruck. This was, after all, Kansas, a very red state, staunchly conservative and indeed historically hostile to much of what Kennedy said.
As the waves of applause grew louder and louder like fierce ocean waves, one newsman said, "This is fucking Kansas, fucking Kansas, he's going all the way, he's going all the way."
And he would have gone all the way but the bastards killed him.
BTW: There is evidence suggesting that a conspiracy was at play: Witnesses heard about 7 shots.
Some people have asked when this speech was made and the context of the speech.
This speech was made on March 18, 1968.
Let me provide the relevant explosive developments so you will realize just how and why everything was so combustible at the moment of this speech:
A) ON January 30 or 31 of 68, The North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive. Their successes made every prophecy of LBJ and General Westmoreland, that we would soon win, look like LIES
B) 500 American boys were dying a week. That doesn't include the lost arms and legs and testicles destroyed by "Bouncing Betty" land mines.
C) On March 12, Eugene MC Carthy, who also opposed the war, won 42 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary. The political pros said he would get 10 percent.
D) Kennedy announced his candidacy on Saturday March 16
E) On March 17, he marched in New York's St Patrick Days Parade and Jackie Kennedy blew him a kiss from her apartment. (Conservative Irish people booed him at the parade because he was against the war))
F) On the night of March 17, he changed planes at an airport in the midwest at 1 AM in the morning and at 1 AM in the morning 5000 people were there to greet him.
G) And then, on March 18, he gives this speech.
H) And then, until the end of March, he barnstorms the nation, passionately fighting to end the war in Vietnam and to bring about Justice at home. HIS CAMPAIGNING, AT THE END OF MARCH, WAS STUPENDOUS AND EXHILERATING. He GAVE THE WAR HAWKS UTTER HELL.
I) At the end of March, Johnson withdraws from the race.
j) On April 4, Martin Luther king is killed
There is so much more to say and that I would love to elaborate on, but I gotta go.
What's it to you, Thank you for this helpful contextualization.
This was not delivered at Kansas State, it was delivered at the University of Kansas.
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This is mislabeled. This is his first speech March 18, at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. I was there, and took photos. Later he went on to University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS and spoke there to an equally enthusiastic student body. The photo shown here was taken at KSU in the Field Auditorium. Great speech. So well crafted, such an indictment of the Vietnam War--tells you all you need to know as to why we shouldn't be there at the time. Also addresses the divide between the rich and poor at home, and inequality. He was passionate about finding solutions to lift up both black and white Americans stuck in a cycle of poverty without hope. Reoccurring theme of his primary race. "Some men see things as they are and wonder why: I see things that never were, and wonder, Why Not?" quoting from George Bernard Shaw (loosely).
It's not mislabeled, the picture used for the video is merely from the earlier speech he delivered at Kansas State.
The recording itself is definitely from the KU speech. In the first 30 seconds of the recording he mentions the chancellor (K-State has never had one), and then he makes his little joke about K-State sending its love.
?? It says , as I copy and paste here, : " Senator Robert F. Kennedy's speech at KU on March 18, 1968. .." So , what was that you were saying??
Thanks for posting this. In regard to whether this was delivered at KU or KSU...the JFK Library website says KU, which agrees with the joke made regarding KSU.
kyerkes98 ysincus
It was delivered in Allen Field House on the campus of the University of Kansas. Still the event with the largest attendance in the 60 year old building 18,000+ as students sat on the floor and in the aisles. RFK you were 100% correct in all aspects of the speech.
Thank you for the post.
LetsEndHumanity ysincus
Apparently he spoke both places. The photo may be from Manhattan, the speech is from Lawrence, clearly.
Steve Wilson ysincus
Thank you.
So much.
Matthew Aaron ysincus
Good God. What a speech.
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It was given on 18 March of 1968.
Fenil Dedhia ysincus
The speech is great... But in looking at the video, he needs to be more animated.
lol
Wow.
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March 18, 1968
Unless he delivered speeches on the same day, I found 2 different transcripts...this one seems to attach to KU, but the picture looks KSU. Is that Ahearn or Allen??
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16:20 : "Too much and for too long...
This is the best part. This is a great narrative on the problem of picking our incentives with politics.
Huh?? No, it was delivered at K-State.
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I was rememberingof Bobby Kennedy
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help him lord
Then why does he make the sarcastic comment, "I've come because I came from Kansas State and they wanted to send their love to all of you" ?
Nicholas Moore ysincus
He visited a rival college before he went to this university
yes we could :(
You should listen to the entirety of the speech. The opening section of the speech is the WORST part of the speech; here he's only getting warmed up. Further on in the speech he has his strongest, most lacerating indictments against poverty, the unquenchable thirst for every increasing affluence that serves no purpose and, most importantly, and gallantly, against the Vietnam War. This section is DUMB. This is the intro to the speech and you are denigrating his memory by showing the "Cute Bobby," beloved by teenyboppers and very young school girls. Bobby could deliver body blows against the establishment. Show that part of him!!!
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This IS the whole speech, all 32 minutes 16 seconds
@@aaron4wilkins My above comment was made in reference to another you tube video of his speech, which only showed the beginning of his speech
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Aha, got it...l was wondering..thank you
Sounds familiar with today “Iraq and Afghanistan etc” smh hmmmmm
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0:20:28 now
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Saw his assassination on live TV. Shocking.
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When he says it was said it was 'their war, they have c to win it's it was his brother Jack that said that...
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