RIP, Bobby Kennedy

Some years ago when I was getting my MS at UC-Davis, the subject of Bobby Kennedy came up, and I said to my major professor that I thought our last best hope for this country died with RFK.  He kind of growled and said something negative about that whole wealthy and perhaps mob-connected Kennedy family.  I couldn't disagree with what he said, but I'd seen footage of Bobby Kennedy going into the deepest dens of poverty and prejudice in the US South, and it struck me that he was a man whose eyes were being opened.  I believe that changed him, I said. And I still believe it, and I still believe he was this country's last best hope.

Today is the anniversary of Bobby Kennedy's murder.  And I'd like to recommend to you a Netflix documentary series that doesn't whitewash him or lionize him, but it shows the man, and the change in him I believe is evident in the video clips the series offers.   

I'm sorry they killed Jack Kennedy, and I'll still sometimes cry when I see footage of the killing, but I'm not a die-hard JFK fan.  I think what my major professor said about the Kennedys was probably unarguable as far as JFK was concerned.  And certainly where Ted Kennedy was concerned.  But I think there was a rare soul in their brother.

I resent the hell out of whoever/whatever forces killed Bobby Kennedy.