Remembering Robert F. Kennedy... June 5, 1968: After midnight, shortly after winning the South Dakota and California primaries and announcing " ... now it's on to Chicago," Kennedy is shot in the Ambassador Hotel by Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordanian immigrant. He dies the following day in Los Angeles.

This speech is Ted Kennedy delivering the closing part of the eulogy at the funeral of his brother Bobby, using excerpts from Bobby's famous speech to the students of a South African university in 1966. Bobby's speech to the students is one of the most beautiful speeches I have ever heard...I am glad that Ted Kennedy read it because it represented the kind of man his brother was and the great leader that this country lost.

To read the entire eulogy:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ekennedytributetorfk.html

Thank you so much for this. How poignant, that Teddy Kennedy is now facing himself, the only brother of the three to survive political life.

Yes, thank you even if it gives me a lump in my throat.

If only ....

Now 40 years later a black man has the opportunity to fix an American shortcoming. If you live long enough then mankind can get it right. Or as RFK said...

" ...will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times in many parts of this nation, to those he touch and those that sought to touch him, some men see things as they are and say why, I dream things that never were and say why not."

That line always brings tears to my eyes...