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Ferryboat

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1. I was 11 at the time

Reply to electric_blue68 (Original post)

Thu Jun 5, 2025, 11:35 PM

Jun 5

Hard to belive now, but the news networks really brought it home at the time. All the violence from the war, civil rights and college protests.

It really was an inflection point. It began to get darker.

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America Diverted: The Loss of Sen. Robert F Kennedy... June 5, 6 1968... [View all] electric_blue68 Jun 5 OP

I was 11 at the time Ferryboat Jun 5 #1

Ty. Yes it was an inflection point.... electric_blue68 Jun 5 #3

... SheltieLover Jun 5 #2

The C,S,N&Y song "Long Time Gone" was written the night Sen RFK was shot in reaction, and all the efforts at change electric_blue68 Jun 6 #4

Yes, dragging RFK through a crowded kitchen. What could go wrong with that? elocs Jun 6 #5

Yep. I have my "wonderings". electric_blue68 Jun 6 #7

Our nation changed that day in ways no one could imagine at the time Boomerproud Jun 6 #6