R.F.K., R.I.P., Revisited

"Now the long train carrying Robert F. Kennedy’s coffin rumbled south, passing miles and miles of people who had come to the railroad track to honor him, to say goodbye."

On June 8th, 1968 a train carried Robert F. Kennedy's body from New York to Washington D.C. to be buried. Some estimate that a million people lined the tracks to pay their respects. There is an interesting piece in the New York Times today about photographs taken by Paul Fusco who was riding in the train.

Edward Kennedy, in his eulogy for his brother:

“My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”

-johnson!