Bobby Kennedy Poster

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I was searching the web looking for some political posters to display in our student/faculty lounge area (Room 112 SWC) and came across this Bobby Kennedy poster. The date and location were heart stopping. Of course, Sen. Kennedy was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel, just after his California Democratic primary victory speech in the Embassy Ballroom. This is a poster announcing the location and time of his assassination. I am reading Bill Clinton's biography, "My Life," and Pres. Clinton discusses his last year at Georgetown and how Kennedy's death forever changed American politics. In particular, the divisiveness of the Nixon administration, the gulf between conservatives and liberals, the Republican Southern strategy, and of course the Vietnam War. Bobby Kennedy had a way of bringing people together, for example, students and blue collar workers, minorities and union members, intellectuals and the working poor. He also had the ability to give incredible extemporaneous speeches, for example, the speech he gave in the rain in Indianpolis, on April 4, 1968, announcing to a crowd of Afican Americans that Martin Luther King had been shot. He said what we needed in America was "love." I have never heard a politician say that since.