Robert F. Kennedy primary campaign address at Ball State University audio, 1968-04-04

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Robert F. Kennedy primary campaign address at Ball State University audio, 1968-04-04

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A complete audio recording and transcript of Senator Kennedy's campaign address and the question-and-answer session afterwards. .; Recorded in the University Gymnasium (now Irving Gym) at Ball State University.; Originally broadcast on WBST-FM.
The Robert F. Kennedy Speech Collection includes audio and video recordings, photographs, as well as a transcript of Robert F. Kennedy's speech delivered at Ball State University on April 4, 1968.
Kennedy's speech was devoted to domestic issues and to potential international problems that might occur after Vietnam. He talked passionately about hunger and poverty in America and the rest of the world.
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@concernedcitizen1947 Жыл бұрын

I was there for this speech. He and Ethel walked right by us and I did shake his hand, though he had a distant stare as he passed. Afterwards, while driving home, we heard the news that Martin Luther King had been assassinated. I saw his speech in Indianapolis on the news that evening. Incredible day for an Indiana teenager.

@brianarbenz1329 Жыл бұрын

I was downstate in New Albany, as a 9-year-old. I would shake his hand as he passed in an open car on May 6, the day before the Indiana primary.

@brianarbenz1329 Жыл бұрын

I knew two people, friends of my mother, who were students at Ball State then. They were very progressive, and I'm sure enthusiastic about this speech. And of course a guy named David Letterman was at the campus. I'm not sure he was the kind to be in this audience.

@joshuabhujun3835 11 ай бұрын

Lucky man you are to have shaken this great man's hand

@ivanvarela477 Жыл бұрын

You’re still remembered, Bobby. 2023

@deloreswillis9224 Жыл бұрын

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

@michaellazzeri2069 Жыл бұрын

Robert Kennedy was a hero to me in '68-------& he is still, today.

@deloreswillis9224 Жыл бұрын

ME 2

@sapphiresnape7456 Жыл бұрын

And a hero to me .

@daveken9936 Жыл бұрын

@@sapphiresnape7456me too. And I see so much of him in his son, Bobby. I'm going to give everything to this campaign.

@MultiMagnumforce Жыл бұрын

Robert F. Kennedy and his brother John F. Kennedy are the 2 most intelligent politicians/Thinkers in the history of the United States 🇺🇸

@sds5502 Жыл бұрын

I was 12 when this great man was murdered, and have never forgotten the horror. As a student of history, RFK still inspires me every time I hear him talk, be a speech or Q&A. You still remind America of what was lost on June 6, 1968 and I hope Bob Jr. is AMERICAS NEXT PRESIDENT and continues the work you started, along with your brother JFK. REST IN PEACE RFK AND KNOW YOUR SON HAS TAKEN YOUR PATH.

@JayPaul_Tv 3 жыл бұрын

What a compassion candidaate

@cheneethompson5756 2 жыл бұрын

Yep! Would have heen the second president kennedy! Too bad that never came to fruition...

@deloreswillis9224 Жыл бұрын

Yesssssssssssssssss. InDeed ❤

@josephel4292 2 жыл бұрын

Such a person is needed in these difficult times

@deloreswillis9224 Жыл бұрын

DEFINITELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@banzobeans Жыл бұрын

Does his son qualify?

@josephel4292 Жыл бұрын

@John Dickinson If RFK Jr has any of his father's passion, I would say yes.

@slampersand3145 Жыл бұрын

💚 #kennedy2024

@haroldbrown5308 2 жыл бұрын

I still miss him--I always will!

@josephel4292 2 жыл бұрын

His death was a profound loss to humanity.

@deloreswillis9224 Жыл бұрын

ME 2😢

@juliewagner1511 11 ай бұрын

Absolutely will always miss him.

@paulinegarcia888 2 жыл бұрын

He was a good man. It's too bad what happened.

@jimrobcoyle Жыл бұрын

Yeah. And Sirhan can't get parole even though he didn't shoot Bobby behind his right ear. Ben Gurion got to keep Dimona.

@BarbaraObryk Жыл бұрын

After so many years, his words are valid and important today everywhere in the world. These are timeless challenges for humanity that seem impossible for us humans to meet.

@deloreswillis9224 Жыл бұрын

I echo your very sentiments

@dans9463 2 жыл бұрын

If only greater security was there for both Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King

@raymondholstom7351 Жыл бұрын

You are right. But unfortunately JFK had the best security force in the world and it didn't do him any good. Sometimes this happens

@moshaahworks2684 Жыл бұрын

MLK...& BroRobert...both needed tight security... THEIR killers had easy access...and a sharpshooter who would respond..pronto. Hoover..Johnson...Military....all niggas against progressive cohabitation.. .....EVEN TODAY...SAME KILLIN GAME... CAUCASIAN MALE...EVILS.......ON N...ON..N...ONN

@deloreswillis9224 Жыл бұрын

OmGOD

@fredpane6602 Жыл бұрын

I never knew that Martin Luther King was Republican.

@DavidKeithWilliams 2 жыл бұрын

As brilliant a leader and as inspiring a leader as John F. Kennedy was, I honestly think his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, was more inspiring. I also think he would have been an even better President. However, considering how divisive the United States was in 1968, it was probably expected that Kennedy would be killed. Looking back, I am just surprised it was not by someone more like James Earl Ray.

@dans9463 2 жыл бұрын

I read, unlike John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy did not have a Bobby Kennedy as a campaign manager.

@vivianpowell1732 Жыл бұрын

David Williams, I agree with your point about the difference between Jack and Robert Kennedy. Robert felt his convictions on a deeper level. He conveyed those convictions directly to the American people, and in so doing forged a deeply personal connection with them. In early 1966 I met him among a small group in conversation at a banquet in New York. Those extraordinary moments left an indelible mark on my life.

@DavidKeithWilliams Жыл бұрын

Respect!

@handsome-brute2666 Жыл бұрын

It was a Memphis police officer 👮 with another as a lookout..Lbj 🇺🇸 signed off on the contract by the CIA and mob#Angleton#Marcello...the same people killed his brother and MLK...along with US Army intelligence 🇺🇸

@JimmyS.25 2 жыл бұрын

The best president america never had. The world still misses JFK and RFK . May they rest in eternal peace.

@kevinburke6055 Жыл бұрын

That’s why he was killed. He was gonna be a great president but he was gonna go against the establishment. He was going to look into his brothers murder and was going to get us out of Vietnam.

@deloreswillis9224 Жыл бұрын

Amen 🙏🏿

@working_example Жыл бұрын

What Robert Kennedy spoke about through government programs to help citizen to become productive member helped me. Though it was Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. who started Job Corps, a program I benefited from many years ago that gave me the opportunity to turn my life around. Don't ask any government programs to success in helping transform people's lives 100% but ask transform those who can be transformed. One of two jobs government has is make productive members of society and the other job is protect those members. Since I graduated from Job Corps, I got the skills needed to hang on to jobs and keep learning. Thanks to the sprits of people like Robert Sargent Shriver Jr or Robert Kennedy.

@Dashriprock4 Жыл бұрын

I truly believe all hope was lost for this country after he was taken from us.

@snaporazedofellini Жыл бұрын

To be honest not just for American but for the all world!!

@banzobeans Жыл бұрын

What did you think of Henry Wallace and JFK?

@Dashriprock4 Жыл бұрын

@@banzobeans I like Henry but he never had the charisma or following of RFK. I like John but he was taken also. Robert was our last chance for Single Payer etc...

@banzobeans Жыл бұрын

@@Dashriprock4 as an 80ies kid I'm only slowly coming to grasp with the quite possible alternative trajectories the US and the world could have taken since the 70ies. Wallace was an eye opener. And JFK‘s 1963 speeches. The current world trajectory towards multipolarity gives me some hope in the current time of chaos. It will bring upheaval but eventually, I hope, lay a new foundation for peace, justice, prosperity, stability that the US dreamt of ushering in after WWII but has objectively miserably failed in. It seems inevitable now that the "Pax Americana" that JFK was not in favor of is finally coming to an end now. 60+ years later.

@Dashriprock4 Жыл бұрын

@@banzobeans I have concerns about multipolarity, but it could be, as a Boomer, I fear the unknown. Not encouraged by the idea of Chinese leadership. I think you've touched on something interesting about possible trajectories for the United States. Think if Robert Kennedy would have been elected in 68 or 72. Probably no Reagan. No supply-side. It's an intriguing prospect

@Pharoset 2 жыл бұрын

What a great sense of humor. . . the cannibal statement was hilarious!

@oscarrobert4725 2 жыл бұрын

In this speech, as well as his and his brother's we hear clearly why he and his brother were killed by the powers he spoke of taming for the good of all.

@tonydaysog9164 2 жыл бұрын

What's amazing about this speech is that, later that same day, MLJ Jr. was assassinated, and RFK gave another memorable speech in Indiana later that evening.

@sds5502 Жыл бұрын

And it was straight from the heart. No pre-written that night

@dbdelectables Жыл бұрын

That evening……one of the greatest speeches ever……when MLK died. Such a tragic loss to both great men in ‘68! RFK Jr………bring it home for Your dad

@davidparry5116 25 күн бұрын

Hearing Bobby talk gladdens my heart

@NancySanders-om4ic 8 ай бұрын

A fellow co-worker in the Social Work Dept.of the hospital I worked in graduated from Ball State University and she was very proud of her education and the University.I had Not heard of the University until Mary Hetzel,my fellow co-worker,shared her life at the University with me.

@myrealfakename6068 Жыл бұрын

Democrats would do well to choose Robert F. Kennedy Jr in the upcoming primary election. Kennedy 24

@jimrobcoyle Жыл бұрын

April was the month that I read his book. Then I got his Bumper Sticker.

@martyclark2000 2 жыл бұрын

That day didn't end well for humanity...

@mikebowman9844 4 ай бұрын

As I watched and listened to the speech, I kept imagining all those with questions for RFK were to his right in the auditorium...he kept looking in that direction.

@sds5502 Жыл бұрын

RIP RFK, AMERICAS LOST AND PERHAPS GREATEST PRESIDENT. GOD BLESS BOBBY JR . IN HIS QUEST TO BECOME AMERICAS NEXT PRESIDENT. Your son has evolved to hold the values for America as you held so dear.

@asokt4931 3 ай бұрын

The draft deferment point is very important and i agree!

@joshuasocoy 24 күн бұрын

bobby as i look around the modern world at my contemporaries i see none like you, i will become one like you. thats the least i can do to honor your memory.

@amazon5031 Жыл бұрын

What a missed opportunity with JFK and then RFK! Such idealists with so much compassion for the people of America. Wish his son well and the best of luck!

@cheneethompson5756 2 жыл бұрын

He sounds just like jfk, except the accent's not as thick

@matachi1040 Жыл бұрын

Got the same humour as well

@cheneethompson5756 Жыл бұрын

@@matachi1040 yeah

@cheneethompson5756 Жыл бұрын

@@matachi1040 they kinda looked alike But jean Kennedy looked way more like jfk

@matachi1040 Жыл бұрын

@@cheneethompson5756 Agreed, they look almost identical. She also looks Like Ted

@cheneethompson5756 Жыл бұрын

@@matachi1040 true Jean and jack could have been twins, tho They had the same blue eyes! I saw a picture of them when he was president They had the same smile as well

@christopherball8589 8 ай бұрын

Do not threaten me and mine

@joshuasocoy 25 күн бұрын

jesus Bobby was so damn ahead of his time, and yet, almost 60 years later it seems not one single thing has changed. there wasnt a single politician in 68 that could touch this guy, they couldnt beat him at the ballet so they chose the bullet.

@almeggs3247 8 ай бұрын

Your Dad would never have said he was not PROLIFE!

@eawil-sunart Жыл бұрын

RFK Jr 2024

@laurazaparanuk5366 Жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏❣️

@tutornotepad 3 ай бұрын

This guy would have been the best president of all. If JFK were president, then then Amecia would be still great, still. If we want to make Ameriao great again, then elect JFR for president, or elect his son in 2204? Make Amercia Great Again. MAGA / Kennedy Shannahon 2024

@slampersand3145 Жыл бұрын

Bless him and bless his son. #kennedy2024 💚

@pauldalnoky6055 11 ай бұрын

Day king was killed

@christopherball8589 8 ай бұрын

No bs

@jose9950 Жыл бұрын

Johnson killing him

@matachi1040 Жыл бұрын

Then the same team for JFK Jr in 1999

@burkeherrick3580 Жыл бұрын

Do you think George H. W Bush or Nixon was involved as well?

@jamesjensen5000 Жыл бұрын

I would remind everyone the Vietnam war continued another 6 years after this speech…. And was ended by a Republican.

@sds5502 Жыл бұрын

Because he was not elected due to his assassination. Nixon drug the war on thru his 1st term to insure a 2nd term.

@BCSTS Жыл бұрын

That's because RFK was assassinated ! Was never president.

@NancySanders-om4ic 8 ай бұрын

President Eisenhower sent military"advisors" to Vietnam,although the U.S. had "involvement" in Vietnam since 1947.

@Cathleen7259 Жыл бұрын

Dad this morning they blackmailed me all day long over pictures Megan paid for them to take pictures of pictures of me and break the phone down and then the brand new wicker furniture that my husband David Lofgren bought for us in Pier One Import in Scottsdale and all the tracks are bent so the drawers don’t roll in and hang look I don’t understand why they didn’t get arrested for this and I don’t want Auren near me he is going backwards and I don’t want to have him on my medical records because he doesn’t know what he is doing and he is playing with fire writing hormones out. He emancipated himself against Jason word for mine and he purgered himself in court. He is not my problem anymore and I am not going to be under him. I brought him in not the other way around. So I will go to my Mothers house to pick up my car and my daughter and recover from all of them I can not wait anymore and you left me I am done!

@joshuabhujun3835 11 ай бұрын

Please vote his RFK Junior

@Longshotsblues 10 ай бұрын

Are you demented or what? Bobby was the Voice for Reason & Sanity, his son is the complete opposite. Do you hear the Intellect of his Dad here? His son is an embarrassment to that Intellect and his Dad's memory. Bobby was a DEMOCRAT. John, Teddy, Entire Family. Jr. is going to run as an Independent encouraged by his MAGA friends. They will vote GOP. People like you will Help Them. You haven't listened and heard one of this speech. Bobby is my Hero and if alive he like Ethel and the rest of his kids and nieces & nephews would vote to reelect Joe Biden for four more years.

@joshuasocoy 25 күн бұрын

@@Longshotsblues you're brain has been so twisted you have no idea what you're talking about, RFK Jr has MANY of the same values his father had, the democratic party of today is almost entirely corrupt and they've done everything they can to suppress RFK Jr. all you have to do is listen to just one or two of RFK Jr's speeches and if that doesnt change your mind then you are mentally lost. both father and son run an on uniting america and the rest of the world, to be shinning cities on a hill as JFK said. RFK would never vote for somebody as demented as joe biden or any other democrat that has ran in the last 40 years (or republican for that matter post reagan) all of the presidents of the last 4 decades have succeeded in running this country straight into the ground and very soon there will be a reckoning in this country.