“bobby” Speech: Finale (end) “and It’s On To Chicago + Let’s Win This!”
Finale of the film, “Bobby”. speech by Bobby Kennedy.
Bobby Kennedy gave his California primary victory speech @ the Ambassador Hotel, in L.A., June 4th, 1968. He was preparing to proceed to Chi…
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RFK was not incorrect about the good will of the people. 200-million Americans did not kill him. He was correct that the people, as a whole, were good and decent. He was incorrect only in bravely believing we needn’t fear a second Kennedy assassination. But was it wrong for him to be so hopeful and positive by risking his life for his country? Instead of his doing that, you would have obviously preferred he exercise meekness and cowardice (just to avoid some fool like you calling him arrogant).
November 6, 2009 3:54 pm | #1Bobby Kennedy didn’t want to merely become a President. He wanted to do something with that job. And if he won that job, he wanted to win it while showing his fellow citizens that they were not electing a President who would have to live each day in mortal dread of being assassinated (in the wake of what had happened to his brother). He couldn’t demonstrate that by running around with heavily-armed bodyguards accompanying him everywhere. His decision concerning security was brave and sincere.
November 6, 2009 4:03 pm | #2Condemning as arrogant a courageous and sincere patriot as Bobby Kennedy is sick. It’s like condemning others who also bravely risk their lives for things they sincerely believe in (example: Firefighters are not arrogant in risking their ass to save yours). If RFK sincerely felt it was important for him to have very little security while seeking the presidency, it wasn’t because he thought he was Jesus Christ. Right or wrong in his decision, it was a sincere decision and not an arrogant one.
November 6, 2009 4:47 pm | #3I don’t say these things as a Kennedy worshipper. Had RFK lived and won the Democratic nomination, and had I been old enough to vote in ‘68, I would have voted for Nixon. I would have disagreed with RFK and the direction he wanted to take us and would have supported the Republican approach. So I’m no Kennedyphile. But as much as I disagree with much of what Bobby and Ted supported, I admire RFK’s courage and sincerity. He may not have been my kind of candidate but he was still a great American.
November 6, 2009 4:49 pm | #4I would quibble with you only about the following:There was no recommendation that JFK travel in a covered vehicle. But more to the point: the limo’s see-thru bubbletop was not bulletproof, only rainproof, so there was no reason to use it on a sunny day. As for RFK: yes, he deliberately had terrible security but this wasn’t due to arrogance. RFK sincerely felt it his duty to show he believed in the good will of the people and that the country need not fear a second Kennedy assassination.
November 6, 2009 5:10 pm | #5i have in the description the mention of the 2nd and 3rd assassins. the woman in the polka dot dress and her companion, the well dressed refined man. they left down a stairway admiting they shot him and laughed sadistically.
November 6, 2009 5:14 pm | #6Actually, the woman in the polka dot dress and her companion were NOT the second and third assassins. They were involved in the conspiracy, yes. But they were not shooters themselves. They played other roles in the plot. Again, I urge those interested in learning the truth about the RFK assassination to do a YouTube video search by using these two key words: RFK Pruszynski. The recently-uncovered Pruszynski recording is the most important evidence of a conspiracy yet uncovered in this case.
November 6, 2009 5:44 pm | #7i know the young teen and college student volunteer characters in the film were fictional but every other character including the kitchen workers were real but the personal stories were fictional. i think everybody realized that. it says it at the beginning of the film. but the stories are plausible. they accuaretly showed the people who got shot. that would be stupid to depart from the actual happenings to the degree of not accurately showing real people as characters who got shot.
November 6, 2009 6:19 pm | #8I can understand why you might think the movie would not depart signficantly from the actual happenings regarding the people who got shot. It’s not unreasonable for you to make such an assumption. But if you were to look into the RFK assassination itself, you would realize there is a significant departure concerning the profiles of the persons wounded and, more importantly, the exact circumstances of their being wounded (including where on their bodies they were shot and how many times).
November 6, 2009 6:20 pm | #9I don’t say that to be critical. If I hadn’t studied this case, I wouldn’t know this and might conclude as you have. Now one might say: Who cares? Emilio did not intend this as a movie about the assassination itself but about RFK and how important he was and what he stood for. All true. But audience members all take different things away from a movie. In this case, some can get the wrong impression about what happened in the pantry (even though Emilio didn’t intend to leave a wrong impression).
November 6, 2009 6:47 pm | #10