June 05, 2008

40 Years On

Mustang Bobby has written a wonderfully sad remembrance of the events of June 5, 1968. He was a freshman at a private school in Rhode Island, awakened to the news that Bobby Kennedy had been shot the previous night in Los Angeles.

I was a newly-graduated senior from a high school in Northern Virginia. My family was planning to move 8,000 miles west to Guam (we left on June 9). I remember that news too. It was stunning, coming just three months after Martin Luther King's assassination in Memphis and five years after JFK's assassination in Dallas. We were, I'm sure, caught up in the hurly-burly of moving companies, pet home-finding, and house-closing, but we were once again in shock.

Go read his piece; it's beautiful.

Update: the LA Times has a special section today. Via Lawyers Guns and Money.

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