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 39 Years Ago Today Today happens to be my birthday ... unfortunately, it's been more than 39 years. The newspapers on June 6 invariably mention the great Normandy invasion that happened this day in 1944 during the height of WWII. But another historical event from June 6th has greater significance for our world today: the death Robert Kennedy. President John Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert Kennedy were the three main actors working to solve the ills of our nation. Robert Kennedy was the last of those three standing as the summer of 1968 dawned. He had just won the California Democratic presidential primary and was primed to beat Humphrey at the convention. Robert Kennedy would have defeated shifty Dick Nixon as his brother had done before him. President Robert Kennedy would have immediately yanked our troops out of Vietnam in 1969 and accelerated implementation of the new civil rights laws. Rapprochement with Cuba? Gotta believe it would have happened. Hell, the entire cold war would have come to a screeching halt in the early 70s instead of being milked by Ronald Reagan into the mid-1980s. IMHO, the United States, nay, the entire world would have been a different, more peaceful place had Bobby Kennedy been allowed to live and fulfill his destiny. But evil men took his life and we have all suffered for it. Here is a well-written remembrance of RFK's death. 06/06/2007. Add Comment Permalink
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