Does anyone ever mention the people killed and injured by the Penn Central Chicago to NY train at a station in NJ that were waiting on the other side for the RFK train to pass? they got to close to the track and had no warning a train was headed in the opposite direction.
I was then a small Dutch boy of 9 years. Suddenly my mother burst into my room and told me that a good man, a Kennedy was shot. She asked me that we should pray together for his health. Next day I was so shaken when I heard he had died. I could not understand why. We had prayed so hard.
America without war is a world without war and why this was a blow that we never recovered from. Unfortunately the powers that he did not want this to happen so people like JFK, MLK and RFK were assassinated.
I was a 16 year old face in the crowd as I watched Bobby Kennedy's casket being carried out of St.Pats I was in tears then and 51 years later I can't watch this w/o shedding a tear
I was in the boy scouts and our troop went to NJ from New York. As the train passed, there were people crying, others silent. The whole time we stood at attention, everything was gloomy. First JFK, then MLK and finally our last hope, RFK. It seemed America took another punch to the gut.
I can’t explain to myself how just seeing 50 year old video can bring heartfelt tears. It’s been healing these past few days to learn how many other people share these feelings.
That was 5 years before I was born,but it moved me to tears to see all those people lining the train tracks to pay their respects..JFK was the last great president we had,and I think if given the chance,RFK could have been a great president too if he wanted the job...we need someone like RFK,someone who cares about ALL of us...maybe someday we will have someone worth waiting on the train tracks for...
Brian Clarke I'll stay out of your lacrimal journey. Robert might've been the least poisonous of a really nasty group of people, but that's the extent of it.
I felt the same way and it brought tears to my eyes as well and when asked if ppl would stand and wait for a train carrying one of our world leaders today? Absolutely Not simply because it's another time and place. We live in a society where ppl are tired of all the lies and cover-ups so we would have no reason to stand and wait for someone that we have no respect.We have not experienced anyone like RFK and to me that speaks volumes to how divided our Government and our country has became in the last 50 yrs..
Robert Kennedy was truly amazing and gave people hope. He would have made an amazing president! The world lost a wonderful opportunity at peace, intelligence, and a beautiful mind when the chance was taken from him & us for him to become president. What a tragedy. 💔🙏😞🕊 I do believe that crowds would line up for President Obama however, because they line up for him now, when he does simple speaking arrangements. He is loved by people all over the world and is still ranked in America’s top 5 favorite presidents of all times. But, there’s no need for that because he’s going to live out a long, blessed, happy life to a ripe, old age ☺️🧓🏽....Oh and I personally think #JimmyCarter is a living legend as well! He & Roslyn have done so much work for children in 3rd world countries building schools, and clean water through The Carter Foundation it’s unbelievable. Even today, in his early 90’s and with brain cancer he still teaches Sunday School every week at his home church in Georgia and they still make missionary trips overseas. He has truly devoted his entire life to helping those in need. His work for peace at all costs also makes him an American hero in my eyes! While some choose to judge and criticize him for having sit down conversations with certain groups I think he is beyond brave, and touched by the Hand of GOD; on a mission to stop world violence, and end all wars. His ways may be controversial but he has had much more success using honey than vinegar, or should I say words than automatic bombs. Anyway, Rest with the angels #RobertKennedy 🙏💙👼🏻..... And for the rest of us; don’t forget to give people the flowers 💐 while they can still smell them!!!! 🙏🙏🙏
I am crying because this man, Bobby cared about the poor, it didn't matter what colour you were it was all about giving young people half a chance in life giving us respect in words and actions. when you died I was a little girl living in Essex U.K. but have never forgotten you bobby .
Thank you for your comment. Sure it's been what some would consider quite a bit of time since Bobby passed - the fact is the the world would've been a better place. However there are powers that be that don't want the U.S. or the planet to be a better & more just place for all. That may sound cynical but it's a sad fact that still unfortunately is true all these years later. Irregardless thank you for your kind words regarding "Bobby."
I was 10 years old. Too young to fully understand why someone else had been shot AGAIN. MLK had been killed in April. I remember everyone being terribly sad. My mother was devastated. My dad was angry. He felt that Bobby Kennedy was the last best hope for us (black people) in this country. He felt that we and all Americans were robbed.
I was 5 years old in Washington DC and my Dad and I watched the footage of the train. We went to Union Station to see the train come in......We were all sad...I knew a great man had passed on.
Bobby instills a sense of an unforgettable loss after 50 years! There was something so special about him that I still mourn as I did at 17 right out of high school and preparing to campaign for him!! RIP
OMG! I wasn't even born at that time...But 50 years later I am literally in tears watching this.....Such a sad, sad feeling for such beautiful man with an amazing spirit gone waaaayyy too soon😔
At the time, when I was a teenager, I was severely depressed for a very very long time. Still am when I think of RFK and the way things might have been.
we all cried over 50 years ago. i was 18 and a college kid. what would president bobby kennedy have done? stop the war sooner? probably. helped the poor? yes.
Robert (Bobby) was simply a good man, saw wrong in his country wanted to make it right, loved him, crying while watching this. He would gave have been President, a great President.
I just watched his speech announcing the assassination of MLK. It helped me to understand why nearly 2 million people would wait in silence with dignity and grace next to a railroad track - some of them for over 5 hours - just to watch his funeral train pass by. I feel fortunate that most of his campaign speeches were recorded so that his voice and his words are here to remind us to call out to "the better angels of our nature".
There will never be another Bobby Kennedy. I loved the twinkle in his eye, his smile and they way he spoke. He was a great husband and family man. We miss you, Bobby.
So sad,a relative of mine was a student in the usa,he was among those who stood there.he said to me when the train passed by him he started crying with most of those people around him.
My Father and My Brother Johnny and I....Watched the train pass by in Wilmington. I remember My Father was silent the whole way Home. It was a moving experience. So Sad.
I was in 3rd grade at the time in Iowa. Our teacher kept the radio on all day, awaiting updates on his status. It was obvious that she was upset and we hardly did anything that day. I remember watching this on TV. I'm glad he has a very humble headstone marker. Watching this video from 2008, I'm struck by the woman at the end whom was asked, "Who would you stand by the tracks to pay your respects to now and she replied, no one." My sentiments exactly. We need to stand up as one and take back control of our government or you will not like what occurs next. We need to come together and get our act together, now!
I was right out of high school in 1968 and before starting college was preparing to campaign for RFK. His death devastated my closest friends and me and to this day 50 plus years later I still have not completely gotten over it. A huge part of America"s hope also died when Bobby passed.
The great sadness was that Kennedy could have worked to end poverty and worked to secure the American dream for African-Americans. Instead, you got Nixon, and "the war on drugs" is still keeping the black man down today. '68 was such a missed opportunity, like the flickering candle of hope for civil rights had been snuffed out.
I was 4 years old i can still remember my mom standing at the ironing board listening to the raido when she started crying so badly that i stsrted crying at the time I had no idea why ? BUT NOW I DO . Inlike this president he cared about this country not about making more money and more lies it is trully a sad time for our country
I was 7 years old but remember my father, a football player, crying and saying “they are killing the people who can save America .” Vietnam was peaking in its horror. The country was divided between older Americans and our youth, and racial inequality was becoming less common place with the hopes of the Kennedys. It truly feels like the most “how great it could have been” moment that was missed in our country. That’s why his death is so painful 53 years later.
I was 15 waved to bobby from havre de grace md had he lived i would have never seen vietnam ,a man of respect & peace rip john & bobby we miss you both
My eldest sister , Toni loved him. Every Sunday Mass , when it got to the point of remembering the dead , she would choke up crying or when they played “The Battle Hymn of the Republic “
Sadly, I have no memory of RFK because I turned 2 on June 29th 1968..I wish I could have witnessed his run for the Presidency because everything I have read about him has convinced me that he would have made a great President for our country..
Judy Holiday Im sorry but he would have lost, Humphrey already have 2400 unpledged delegates, more than Kennedy and McCarty combined, Also loosing Massachusetts in the primaries wasn't a good signal
This man became totally humanistic after Dallas. He would have been a great President. I was awakened at 1AM and told what had happened turned on the TV and just kept saying not again not again
Just imagine if we had a time machine and we could go back and if we could stop the assassination of Martin Luther King, President John F Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy‘s assassination then we went 50 years back to the present can you imagine what it would be like? Then we would have hope.
From our classroom TV, we watched live as RFK's casket got loaded onto a plane at LAX. As the jet took off on TV, we fourth graders hustled out to our terraced patio to watch the plane live, with our own eyes, head up over the ocean before turning east to take him home. Our teacher said we'd never forget it. Ladera Elementary, Manhattan Beach, CA.
Was 14 in School At That Time. Teacher Came In. Whispered InToo The Ear Of English Teacher. Told Us Too Stand Up. He Announced Robert Kennedy Had Died. One Of Those Moments In Life. RIP. Ar Dheis de go raibh a Anam.
I was just 6 years old when Bobby Kenndy died I know my mother was shaken by the news she would remember when brother Jack was killed in 1963 and all those memories flooded her again when Bobby was gone. I would remember the train and hearing the Battle Hymn of the Republic over and over. Still makes me feel sad even posting this I can still feel the emotions on that time so clear to me then it can still move me now
The gentleman from Philadelphia has the old-school Philly accent of my father, my uncles and their friends. Miss that sound especially at this time of year. My mother told me how devastating this time truly was. Can only imagine what all of them could've done. Happy Thanksgiving to all
When Ronald Reagan died under less tragic circumstances (he was 93) thousands upon thousands of everyday people lined the highways across America to pay tribute. Yet all three major network anchors, Brokaw, Jennings and Rather had to make snarky comments about why people were making such 'a big deal' about the 40th President's funeral. The media's double standard is even far worse today......
The lady was right. Few would stand by the tracks for any politician today and it's the politicians fault. They forgot about the people they were supposed to serve and instead serve those who give them large amounts of money.
If I could go back just once in time, I would sacrifice myself if I had to in order to save Bobby. I wish I could at least tell my 12 year old self at the time to warn him.
The train went through the tracks behind my cousins rowhome in Philly.I was 10 and I remember everyone crying. I will never forget that!! Lots of neighbors came by after for coffee and pastries.It was sad.
IT's a shame that world leaders did not attend the funeral and ride the funeral train. Some of them who could have come were UK PM Harold Wilson, France's Charles De Gualle, Jaques Monet, Germany's Kiesinger and Willy Brandt, Italy's Bettino Craxi, Ireland's De Valera, Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, Sweden's Olof Palme, Isreal's Golda Mier, Denmark's Jens Krag, and Japan's Eisuku Sato.
They brought some MIA soldiers home from Vietnam. I can't remember if it was North Carolina or Georgia, people went out and stood by their mailbox. The men driving their remains to the Arlington National Cemetery recalled. They said they had never seen anything like it. This reminded of that. I don't know how they found out about it.
I'm 24, and thinking about the good he could have accomplished as president and never had the chance to makes me so unbelievably sad. I've read enough about the past to know that the present would have turned out much more different had JFK been able to serve a full term and maybe another, and if RFK had been given the same opportunity. Unbelievably sad.
I’m a train guy, I wasn’t born when RFK was alive nor when he was shot. But I found his funeral learning about these mournful trains a few years ago. Those 2 GG1s leading the train weren’t just taking RFK to Washington DC along the Northeast Corridor, they carried the hearts of Americans. Black or white, male or female, young or old. One could think the train was mourning too, the black livery of the Penn Central could be seen as mourning. Rest in peace Bobby, you were there when America needed you her most. “Some men see things as they are and say why, I dream things that never were and say why not.” And don’t worry, America still stands by the tracks to say farewell to important people, they did for George HW Bush and I got to see them do it on the TV from the state of Maine which he loved so much.
I was five years old when my mother took us to see the train in Philadelphia the only image I remembered was of the last train car because you could see the casket with a flag over it. And that lady is right who would we go stand along a train track to watch a cough and go bye what person I can’t think of anybody and that’s truly sad the world is change so much such a divide in this country
The woman who said that we don't have that same respect for public leaders today was right, but it's because they, for the most part, haven't earned that respect.
As soon many stood to watch and salute RFK Nashe rode the last time on a train. My parents said it reminded them of having watch FDR travel by train to be buried.
I still choke up thinking about RFK last trip. So much hope and joy from Americans in that incredible man.
Will live all my life believing LBJ instrumental in BOTH JFK & RFK assassinations!
@@sandrasharp2934 ditto
Yeah, same here
Does anyone ever mention the people killed and injured by the Penn Central Chicago to NY train at a station in NJ that were waiting on the other side for the RFK train to pass? they got to close to the track and had no warning a train was headed in the opposite direction.
@@jaymorgenthal9479 omg what?😮
He brought all kinds of people together like no one can do today.
I was then a small Dutch boy of 9 years. Suddenly my mother burst into my room and told me that a good man, a Kennedy was shot. She asked me that we should pray together for his health. Next day I was so shaken when I heard he had died. I could not understand why. We had prayed so hard.
America without war is a world without war and why this was a blow that we never recovered from. Unfortunately the powers that he did not want this to happen so people like JFK, MLK and RFK were assassinated.
I was a 16 year old face in the crowd as I watched Bobby Kennedy's casket being carried out of St.Pats
I was in tears then and 51 years later I can't watch this w/o shedding a tear
You really need to toughen up.
@@mipa8590 bruuuuuuuuuuuhhh
@@mipa8590 hard when history changed when he died in such a way. RIP RFK!
@@mipa8590I feel like you and RFK should have swapped places at the ambassador hotel ngl
Seeing all those people waiting to pay respects had me in tears. Very touching.
We won’t see it now
He deserved that farewell. He really did.
0:50 After 50 years it still hurts.
I was in the boy scouts and our troop went to NJ from New York. As the train passed, there were people crying, others silent. The whole time we stood at attention, everything was gloomy. First JFK, then MLK and finally our last hope, RFK. It seemed America took another punch to the gut.
"our last hope" Yes, but world's too.
So sade...rip boby😢❤❤❤❤❤❤
RFK’s poster hangs in my home office, which he signed for me in South San Francisco
Are you a relative of John f Kennedy... Just wanted to ask you because of your surname....proud to have Kennedy in this world.
Awesome
@@superstarjagan5140 Many American who have Irish ancestors have the same surname.
@@superstarjagan5140 It's a very common name for the Irish.
I can’t explain to myself how just seeing 50 year old video can bring heartfelt tears. It’s been healing these past few days to learn how many other people share these feelings.
That was 5 years before I was born,but it moved me to tears to see all those people lining the train tracks to pay their respects..JFK was the last great president we had,and I think if given the chance,RFK could have been a great president too if he wanted the job...we need someone like RFK,someone who cares about ALL of us...maybe someday we will have someone worth waiting on the train tracks for...
Brian Clarke I'll stay out of your lacrimal journey. Robert might've been the least poisonous of a really nasty group of people, but that's the extent of it.
I felt the same way and it brought tears to my eyes as well and when asked if ppl would stand and wait for a train carrying one of our world leaders today? Absolutely Not simply because it's another time and place. We live in a society where ppl are tired of all the lies and cover-ups so we would have no reason to stand and wait for someone that we have no respect.We have not experienced anyone like RFK and to me that speaks volumes to how divided our Government and our country has became in the last 50 yrs..
Violent times the 60s
Robert Kennedy was truly amazing and gave people hope. He would have made an amazing president! The world lost a wonderful opportunity at peace, intelligence, and a beautiful mind when the chance was taken from him & us for him to become president. What a tragedy. 💔🙏😞🕊 I do believe that crowds would line up for President Obama however, because they line up for him now, when he does simple speaking arrangements. He is loved by people all over the world and is still ranked in America’s top 5 favorite presidents of all times. But, there’s no need for that because he’s going to live out a long, blessed, happy life to a ripe, old age ☺️🧓🏽....Oh and I personally think #JimmyCarter is a living legend as well! He & Roslyn have done so much work for children in 3rd world countries building schools, and clean water through The Carter Foundation it’s unbelievable. Even today, in his early 90’s and with brain cancer he still teaches Sunday School every week at his home church in Georgia and they still make missionary trips overseas. He has truly devoted his entire life to helping those in need. His work for peace at all costs also makes him an American hero in my eyes! While some choose to judge and criticize him for having sit down conversations with certain groups I think he is beyond brave, and touched by the Hand of GOD; on a mission to stop world violence, and end all wars. His ways may be controversial but he has had much more success using honey than vinegar, or should I say words than automatic bombs. Anyway, Rest with the angels #RobertKennedy 🙏💙👼🏻..... And for the rest of us; don’t forget to give people the flowers 💐 while they can still smell them!!!! 🙏🙏🙏
The respect and love this man got in his death speaks volumes about how he led his life!
50 years, yet I still feel my stomach drop when I remember and watched this. Reverently and with love.
I am crying because this man, Bobby cared about the poor, it didn't matter what colour you were it was all about giving young people half a chance in life giving us respect in words and actions. when you died I was a little girl living in Essex U.K. but have never forgotten you bobby .
Thank you for your comment.
Sure it's been what some would consider quite a bit of time since Bobby passed - the fact is the the world would've been a better place. However there are powers that be that don't want the U.S. or the planet to be a better & more just place for all.
That may sound cynical but it's a sad fact that still unfortunately is true all these years later.
Irregardless thank you for your kind words regarding "Bobby."
There is no such word as “irregardless.”
I was 10 years old. Too young to fully understand why someone else had been shot AGAIN. MLK had been killed in April. I remember everyone being terribly sad. My mother was devastated. My dad was angry. He felt that Bobby Kennedy was the last best hope for us (black people) in this country. He felt that we and all Americans were robbed.
I was 5 years old in Washington DC and my Dad and I watched the footage of the train. We went to Union Station to see the train come in......We were all sad...I knew a great man had passed on.
Bobby instills a sense of an unforgettable loss after 50 years! There was something so special about him that I still mourn as I did at 17 right out of high school and preparing to campaign for him!! RIP
OMG! I wasn't even born at that time...But 50 years later I am literally in tears watching this.....Such a sad, sad feeling for such beautiful man with an amazing spirit gone waaaayyy too soon😔
At the time, when I was a teenager, I was severely depressed for a very very long time. Still am when I think of RFK and the way things might have been.
jim kaljic, I was 16 and felt the same way. My hero was gone. I still cry over our loss of Bobby Kennedy.
My heart goes out to you. ❤️
“Of all the words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are; it might have been.”
@@loditx7706beautiful 🙏
we all cried over 50 years ago. i was 18 and a college kid. what would president bobby kennedy have done? stop the war sooner? probably. helped the poor? yes.
68 years ols, wow❤️
Robert (Bobby) was simply a good man, saw wrong in his country wanted to make it right, loved him, crying while watching this.
He would gave have been President, a great President.
My dad took me to a train station near where we lived in Philadelphia to watch. I'll never forget that day.
I just watched his speech announcing the assassination of MLK. It helped me to understand why nearly 2 million people would wait in silence with dignity and grace next to a railroad track - some of them for over 5 hours - just to watch his funeral train pass by. I feel fortunate that most of his campaign speeches were recorded so that his voice and his words are here to remind us to call out to "the better angels of our nature".
50 yrs later America still misses them, even people like me who were born decades after they were murdered, JFK and RFK.
I still recommend showing these videos to our children and grandchildren - they have no clue what it was like in those days when we really had hope
There will never be another Bobby Kennedy. I loved the twinkle in his eye, his smile and they way he spoke. He was a great husband and family man. We miss you, Bobby.
I know the look in his eyes meant he really cared, Bobby was a sincere and most of all the people trusted and believed him. Xx
I'm a 40 year old British guy and I'm crying just watching this.
I was 2 in 1968 and I EVEN get choked up about our loss...
I was ten. Watched that night live from el paso....has never left my memory
@@rickheras5871 I was 7 and remember like yesterday
“….next to his brother, John” damn, that sentence still hits hard, real hard
So sad,a relative of mine was a student in the usa,he was among those who stood there.he said to me when the train passed by him he started crying with most of those people around him.
R I P Bobby, Martin, and John.
RFK was firstly ..... a decent human being.
It broke my heart then, and I cry still today for all the lost opportunities
It is sad watching this video. America lost potentially a great leader. No one else since has come close.
My Father and My Brother Johnny and I....Watched the train pass by in Wilmington. I remember My Father was silent the whole way Home. It was a moving experience. So Sad.
I was in 3rd grade at the time in Iowa. Our teacher kept the radio on all day, awaiting updates on his status. It was obvious that she was upset and we hardly did anything that day. I remember watching this on TV. I'm glad he has a very humble headstone marker. Watching this video from 2008, I'm struck by the woman at the end whom was asked, "Who would you stand by the tracks to pay your respects to now and she replied, no one." My sentiments exactly. We need to stand up as one and take back control of our government or you will not like what occurs next. We need to come together and get our act together, now!
I’d do it for Bernie
I was 7 years old. It broke my heart then and still makes me tear up.
I was right out of high school in 1968 and before starting college was preparing to campaign for RFK. His death devastated my closest friends and me and to this day 50 plus years later I still have not completely gotten over it. A huge part of America"s hope also died when Bobby passed.
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔❤❤
I watched at age 13 from North Philadelphia station. I remember so well
The great sadness was that Kennedy could have worked to end poverty and worked to secure the American dream for African-Americans. Instead, you got Nixon, and "the war on drugs" is still keeping the black man down today. '68 was such a missed opportunity, like the flickering candle of hope for civil rights had been snuffed out.
I was 4 years old i can still remember my mom standing at the ironing board listening to the raido when she started crying so badly that i stsrted crying at the time I had no idea why ? BUT NOW I DO . Inlike this president he cared about this country not about making more money and more lies it is trully a sad time for our country
I just clicked on it for no apparent reason but got shed a few tears for all the people who lost their last hope for the future
WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN????? UNBELIEVEABLE....
Clare Logue Don't lose hope, it can still be. Each individual is responsible for governing himself in a civilized manner.
PD Well said
We Miss U Bobby.💙 Thank You For Helping Changing American History We Love u Very Much.❤
I was 7 years old but remember my father, a football player, crying and saying “they are killing the people who can save America .” Vietnam was peaking in its horror. The country was divided between older Americans and our youth, and racial inequality was becoming less common place with the hopes of the Kennedys. It truly feels like the most “how great it could have been” moment that was missed in our country. That’s why his death is so painful 53 years later.
RFK Junior 2024
@@kathleenkelly3537oh please, give me a break…
@@lolkevandewitte1713 she’s entitled to her opinion. Get off your sarcastic high horse
I wasn’t born when he died but I will always have the upmost respect for him. The Kennedy family has endured many tragedies in their life.
*, utmost
what a moving funeral.
I was on the route when Princess Diana’s body came back to Northamptonshire so I completely understand the emotion here.
I was eight years old
Man found his voice.....cut down by assassination.
W Parsons 7 years old. i felt like was there
I was 15 waved to bobby from havre de grace md had he lived i would have never seen vietnam ,a man of respect & peace rip john & bobby we miss you both
Hi. I saw the train also...in North East, MD. Im wondering if we could chat about it. (443) 206-8276. Thank you.
The final train ride reminds me of Lincoln’s train ride home
I think that was the idea.
I cried watching this. I felt this.
I was ten years old at the time! I was watching the train on TV with my family then!
Henry Bass Hey Daddy (-;
Makes me emotional. I can only imagine how much better it would've been if Bobby was still around
Let’s not let John and Bobby’s death be in vain
My eldest sister , Toni loved him. Every Sunday Mass , when it got to the point of remembering the dead , she would choke up crying or when they played “The Battle Hymn of the Republic “
America's lost president. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Sadly, I have no memory of RFK because I turned 2 on June 29th 1968..I wish I could have witnessed his run for the Presidency because everything I have read about him has convinced me that he would have made a great President for our country..
Judy Holiday Im sorry but he would have lost, Humphrey already have 2400 unpledged delegates, more than Kennedy and McCarty combined,
Also loosing Massachusetts in the primaries wasn't a good signal
This man became totally humanistic after Dallas. He would have been a great President. I was awakened at 1AM and told what had happened turned on the TV and just kept saying not again not again
We lost a great man he would have been one of amaricas best presidents I'm sure
That was a terrible time, so many good ppl killed. Bobby would have been president.
Jenny Lee And even if he hadn’t become President, he’d still be a force in the Senate along with his brother
@@jennifersman7990 Definitely.
He gave hope
Just imagine if we had a time machine and we could go back and if we could stop the assassination of Martin Luther King, President John F Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy‘s assassination then we went 50 years back to the present can you imagine what it would be like? Then we would have hope.
From our classroom TV, we watched live as RFK's casket got loaded onto a plane at LAX. As the jet took off on TV, we fourth graders hustled out to our terraced patio to watch the plane live, with our own eyes, head up over the ocean before turning east to take him home. Our teacher said we'd never forget it. Ladera Elementary, Manhattan Beach, CA.
Was 14 in School At That Time.
Teacher Came In.
Whispered InToo The Ear Of English Teacher.
Told Us Too Stand Up.
He Announced Robert Kennedy Had Died.
One Of Those Moments In Life.
RIP.
Ar Dheis de go raibh a Anam.
I was just 6 years old when Bobby Kenndy died I know my mother was shaken by the news she would remember when brother Jack was killed in 1963 and all those memories flooded her again when Bobby was gone. I would remember the train and hearing the Battle Hymn of the Republic over and over. Still makes me feel sad even posting this I can still feel the emotions on that time so clear to me then it can still move me now
It was my honor to meet RFK Jr and he is a great man too.
A very sad time. I shook hands with Bobby in April 68. 10 years old. Now I'm 66. Remember it like it was yesterday.
So heartbreaking.
The gentleman from Philadelphia has the old-school Philly accent of my father, my uncles and their friends. Miss that sound especially at this time of year. My mother told me how devastating this time truly was. Can only imagine what all of them could've done. Happy Thanksgiving to all
When Ronald Reagan died under less tragic circumstances (he was 93) thousands upon thousands of everyday people lined the highways across America to pay tribute. Yet all three major network anchors, Brokaw, Jennings and Rather had to make snarky comments about why people were making such 'a big deal' about the 40th President's funeral. The media's double standard is even far worse today......
The best President the US has ever had. R.I.P
He was a Senator and was never President.
God bless Bobby
Such a needless tragedy. It is as painful today even so many years ago
What a great loss for the whole world it was.
The lady was right. Few would stand by the tracks for any politician today and it's the politicians fault. They forgot about the people they were supposed to serve and instead serve those who give them large amounts of money.
many of us would give ourselvesto have them back
If I could go back just once in time, I would sacrifice myself if I had to in order to save Bobby. I wish I could at least tell my 12 year old self at the time to warn him.
Very upsetting that our country was denied to have Bobby in the White House, he was for everybody, would have had us out of Vietnam way sooner too.
Our last hope 🙏🏾
Man thats crazy. The lady answering the question. We dont have the respect today. Shes right.
True, but sometimes I feel like many of our politicians don't respect us either. What goes around comes around.
@@johnbarone6593 yes, true. Government is kind of a business. It takes special people to have compassion and care. Hopefully we get that soon
I was 11. My paper route manager said I had to throw the route again because there were EXTRA's. I'd only heard of those in movies. Sad time.
The train went through the tracks behind my cousins rowhome in Philly.I was 10 and I remember everyone crying. I will never forget that!! Lots of neighbors came by after for coffee and pastries.It was sad.
this was great until the news anchors gave their empty input.
IT's a shame that world leaders did not attend the funeral and ride the funeral train. Some of them who could have come were UK PM Harold Wilson, France's Charles De Gualle, Jaques Monet, Germany's Kiesinger and Willy Brandt, Italy's Bettino Craxi, Ireland's De Valera, Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, Sweden's Olof Palme, Isreal's Golda Mier, Denmark's Jens Krag, and Japan's Eisuku Sato.
These assassinations still hurt 55 years later. Robert, Martin and John. 💔🇺🇸🙏🏻
My All Time Hero 🙏💙
I wasn't sure about the conspiracy theories surrounding JFK, but I find this one highly suspicious.
Same here
I was 13 years old when Robert K was shot i cried for JFK n RFK RIP good men
I was ten
Me and my brother are fine up here.
They brought some MIA soldiers home from Vietnam. I can't remember if it was North Carolina or Georgia, people went out and stood by their mailbox. The men driving their remains to the Arlington National Cemetery recalled. They said they had never seen anything like it. This reminded of that. I don't know how they found out about it.
I'm 24, and thinking about the good he could have accomplished as president and never had the chance to makes me so unbelievably sad. I've read enough about the past to know that the present would have turned out much more different had JFK been able to serve a full term and maybe another, and if RFK had been given the same opportunity. Unbelievably sad.
our last hope of three
Looking at the shambles of America today, it's painful to think of how much better things might have been had RFK lived. 1968 was a wicked year.
I ADMIRE young children were patient while waiting ,no Electronic gadgets, followed their parents, knew how to respect the deased
I’m a train guy, I wasn’t born when RFK was alive nor when he was shot. But I found his funeral learning about these mournful trains a few years ago. Those 2 GG1s leading the train weren’t just taking RFK to Washington DC along the Northeast Corridor, they carried the hearts of Americans. Black or white, male or female, young or old. One could think the train was mourning too, the black livery of the Penn Central could be seen as mourning. Rest in peace Bobby, you were there when America needed you her most. “Some men see things as they are and say why, I dream things that never were and say why not.” And don’t worry, America still stands by the tracks to say farewell to important people, they did for George HW Bush and I got to see them do it on the TV from the state of Maine which he loved so much.
I was five years old when my mother took us to see the train in Philadelphia the only image I remembered was of the last train car because you could see the casket with a flag over it. And that lady is right who would we go stand along a train track to watch a cough and go bye what person I can’t think of anybody and that’s truly sad the world is change so much such a divide in this country
The woman who said that we don't have that same respect for public leaders today was right, but it's because they, for the most part, haven't earned that respect.
This is Jeanette nail I was 14 yrs old when RFK was shot.
He would have made a great president.
Lovely person.
We all still cry, John.
There are no better days.
As soon many stood to watch and salute RFK Nashe rode the last time on a train. My parents said it reminded them of having watch FDR travel by train to be buried.
Thank you for recognizing Bennett Levin and his stewardship of car #120 for the past 30+ years.
If we don't have the respect for most of todays politicians, it is because most of them fall very short of what Bobby Kennedy stood for.
Im still brought to tears by this today!