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MAN: And now, it is my privilege
and honor

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to introduce Robert Kennedy.

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(cheers and applause)

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NARRATOR:
On a hot August night in 1964,

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Robert F. Kennedy mounted
the podium

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at the Democratic convention
in Atlantic City.

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JOHN SEIGENTHALER: It was first
a rumble and then a roar

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and pretty soon,
it just consumed the whole place

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and they would not stop.

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(cheers and applause)

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Mr. Chairman...

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SEIGENTHALER:
They simply would not stop.

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Mr. Chairman...

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SEIGENTHALER: I don't know,
15, 16, 17, 18 minutes,

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I don't remember
how long it was.

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I only remember
that I couldn't stop crying.

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ANTHONY LEWIS:
It didn't surprise me

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that they would
not let him speak,

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not let him...
you know, not let go of him.

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(cheering continues)

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He was the representation
of what they had lost.

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And if the delegates had
a sense of loss,

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imagine what his feelings were.

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Every day, every hour,
every minute,

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he felt the loss
of his brother.

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NARRATOR:
Ten months before,

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President John Kennedy had been
assassinated in Dallas.

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Bobby had given his life
to his brother,

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as confidant, protector,
lightning rod.

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Now his brother was gone,

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and he was left
to carry on, alone.

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JACK NEWFIELD: He was not
really built for the spotlight,

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he was built for the wings.

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He had to fight
against a basic shyness,

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a basic nervousness in public.

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Many times,
I would stand behind the stage

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and I would see his leg shaking
during his speech,

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or his hands shaking.

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He wasn't a natural.

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But that all had to change when
his brother was assassinated.

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And I think change is the motif
of his whole life and career.

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(cheering continues)

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JEFF SHESOL: He really becomes
something much larger

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than what he was
when he began.

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He becomes stronger
through suffering.

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NARRATOR: The pandemonium
went on for 22 long minutes.

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As the crowd grew quiet,
he bared his grief,

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enshrining his brother

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in words from
"Romeo and Juliet."

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KENNEDY:
When I think of...

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President Kennedy,

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I think of...

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what Shakespeare said
in "Romeo and Juliet,"

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that, "When he shall die,

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"take him and cut him out
in little stars,

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"and he shall make
the face of Heaven so fine

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"that all the world will be
in love with night,

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and pay no worship
to the garish sun."

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(applause)

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NARRATOR:
When he was finished speaking,

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he left the hall,
sat on a fire escape, and wept.

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♪ ♪

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NARRATOR:
In the spring of 1952,

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Massachusetts Congressman
John Kennedy

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was keeping up a brave face

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while his campaign
for the United States Senate

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unraveled into chaos.

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He desperately needed

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a tough, disciplined
campaign manager.

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As he would
for the rest of his life,

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he reached out
to his kid brother.

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Bobby didn't want to do it--
he already had a job,

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working as a lawyer
in the Justice Department.

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But Robert F. Kennedy knew
what his family expected.

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For the next 12 years,

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he would devote himself
to Jack,

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putting his brother's ambitions
before his own.

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That had been the great lesson
of his childhood.

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As the third boy and
the seventh of nine children,

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Bobby Kennedy easily got lost.

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He was born
in Brookline, Massachusetts,

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on November 20, 1925.

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All through his early years,
he struggled just to keep up.

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EVAN THOMAS: Everything was
a competition,

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within the family
and without.

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They still talk, at this
little yacht club in Hyannis,

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about how the Kennedys cheated

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by adding more sailcloth
to their boats.

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The Kennedys were
very competitive,

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and they wanted to win
at everything they did.

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NARRATOR: "We don't want
any losers around here,"

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Joseph Kennedy told
all his children.

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"In this family,
we want winners.

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"Don't come in second or third--
that doesn't count.

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Win."

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Bobby's father was
the towering figure

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in his childhood.

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Joseph P. Kennedy had
made millions

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with shrewd investments
in the stock market, the movies,

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and, some say,
by bootlegging liquor,

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but he wanted more
out of life than money.

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He wanted his two oldest sons,
Joe Jr. and Jack,

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to win elected office,

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and even more, he wanted Joe Jr.
to become president someday.

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ROBERT DALLEK:
This would give the family

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a kind of visibility,
a kind of cachet,

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a kind of social status

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that Joe Kennedy was
very hungry for.

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And the children imbibed
this ambition.

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NARRATOR: While Joe's attention
was lavished

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on his two oldest boys,

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Bobby quietly took his place

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among the younger children--
the girls.

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He was small, awkward, shy.

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His father described him
as the family "runt."

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He would set out to prove

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he was as tough
as his brothers.

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When he was only four,
he dove off the family sailboat

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in a desperate attempt to prove
he could swim ashore.

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As he was going under,
Joe Jr. had to haul him out.

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"It either showed
a lot of guts," Jack said later,

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"or no sense at all."

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THOMAS: And that's how Bobby got
his father's attention,

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by being the tough guy.

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But beneath that toughness,

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there was always this softness
and this sensitivity.

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He was a mama's boy.

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In fact, his grandmother worried
that he was too much of a sissy,

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too much of a girlie-boy,

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because he clung
to his mother's skirts.

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NARRATOR: Rose Kennedy was
a devout Catholic,

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and Bobby absorbed
her religious intensity.

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He made his first communion
when he was seven

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and went on to become
an altar boy

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and attend a school
run by Benedictine monks.

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Bobby Kennedy grew up
with a strong sense

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of right and wrong,
good and evil.

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Like his brothers,
he was toughened

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by the rigorous demands
of his father,

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but he disguised, as well,
a gentler nature.

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Bobby, a friend said,

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was "truly in touch
with his emotions."

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He was saved
by being "overlooked."

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When World War II began,
Bobby was in high school

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and chafed to get
into the action,

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like his two older brothers.

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He flushed with pride
when Jack became a hero,

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rescuing most of his crew

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after his PT boat was sliced
in two by a Japanese destroyer.

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But disaster was to follow

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and determine the direction
of Bobby's life.

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In the summer of 1944,

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Joe Jr. volunteered
for a near-suicidal mission:

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to pilot a plane loaded with
dynamite toward an enemy target

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and then parachute to safety.

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His plane exploded
before he ever got there.

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Joe Jr. was dead,

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along with all the hopes
his father had invested in him.

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Now it would be up to Jack

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to realize
his father's ambitions.

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And it would become Bobby's role
to help him.

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But Bobby was young-- only 18--

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still struggling to determine
his own destiny.

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In 1948 he graduated
from Harvard,

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went on to law school,

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and then became the first of
the Kennedy boys to settle down.

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24 years old,
he married Ethel Skakel--

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wealthy, outgoing, athletic,

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so devout she had almost
become a nun.

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A year later, the first
of his 11 children was born.

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When it came to those he loved,
Bobby was tender, maternal,

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but he turned a hardened face
to the world.

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THOMAS: He was particularly
edgy and volatile

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and, I think, unhappy
when he was in his early 20s.

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He was an angry young man.

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I mean, he was always
getting into fistfights.

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I mean, his temper was about
that far from the surface.

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NARRATOR:
In 1952,

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when he managed his brother's
victorious run for the Senate,

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Robert Kennedy gained
a reputation as "ruthless,"

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a rude, arrogant, impatient kid.

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But he shrugged off complaints.

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"I don't care if anyone around
here likes me," Bobby said,

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"as long as they like Jack."

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Now with Jack in the Senate,

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Bobby would darken
his reputation further

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when his father got him a job
with a family friend,

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one of the most
controversial men in America:

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Wisconsin Senator
Joseph McCarthy.

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Any man
who has been given the honor

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of being promoted to general
and who says,

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"I will protect another general
who protects communists,"

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is not fit to wear
that uniform, General!

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NARRATOR: In 1953, Bobby
enlisted in McCarthy's crusade

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against what both men saw

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as the evil of communism
in America.

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DALLEK: Robert Kennedy
in the 1950s

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was very much his father's son.

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His father was fiercely
anti-communist.

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Joe Kennedy saw Joe McCarthy
as doing the Lord's work.

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THOMAS: History thinks
of Joe McCarthy

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as this virulent Red-baiter,

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but Bobby Kennedy was
a black-and-white moralist

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at this stage of his life.

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And the communists were
the bad guys,

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and anybody who was
against the communists

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was therefore a good guy.

12:20.666 --> 12:23.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And so, he liked the kind of
black-and-white morality

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that Joe McCarthy was selling.

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RONALD STEEL: What was striking
about Bobby

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was not that he worked
for Joe McCarthy so much,

12:32.500 --> 12:34.300 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60%
but rather that
he admired Joe McCarthy,

12:34.300 --> 12:36.966 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5%
and became very close
to Joe McCarthy.

12:36.966 --> 12:41.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
So when McCarthy was conducting
his investigations

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into suspected communists,

12:44.266 --> 12:48.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby enthusiastically
joined in this role.

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NARRATOR: Bobby worked
for McCarthy for six months,

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then moved on,

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still grimly determined
to root out evil in America.

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I decline to answer
this question

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on the grounds that the answer
may tend to incriminate me.

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I decline to answer
on the ground...

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MAN: The answer...

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(stammers): The answer may...
tend on recriminate myself.

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KENNEDY: Somebody that's been
as successful as you

13:11.766 --> 13:14.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
can remember how to say, "I
decline to answer the question,"

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so don't put that act on.

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MAN: I wanted to make sure.

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KENNEDY:
Yeah.

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NARRATOR:
As chief legal counsel

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for what became known
as the Senate Rackets Committee,

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Bobby began probing
into labor unions and mobsters,

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grilling some of the toughest
gangsters in America.

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But no one rankled him
more than Jimmy Hoffa.

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Hoffa was president of
the Brotherhood of Teamsters,

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the country's largest, richest

13:40.166 --> 13:43.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
and one of
its most corrupt unions.

13:43.200 --> 13:47.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Bobby said he detected in Hoffa
"absolute evilness."

13:47.733 --> 13:49.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
KENNEDY: Did you say anything
to the effect

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that the jury treated you
very well,

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and that you thought that you
could do very well

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before a jury?

13:54.833 --> 13:55.900 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
You know, that's
pretty ridiculous.

13:55.900 --> 13:56.900 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
KENNEDY:
Did you say anything...

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I did not!

13:58.033 --> 13:59.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
 
And I appeal to the chair

13:59.633 --> 14:01.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that that be taken
out of the record!

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♪ ♪

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NARRATOR: Bobby turned
his investigation of Hoffa

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into a holy cause,

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holding hearings
month after month

14:10.333 --> 14:13.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
and calling
more than 1,500 witnesses.

14:15.600 --> 14:18.466 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Punishing Hoffa
became a crusade.

14:18.466 --> 14:20.933 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5%
You've got people
in Detroit, at least 15,

14:20.933 --> 14:23.166 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
who have police records.

14:23.166 --> 14:25.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
You've got Joey Glimco
in Chicago.

14:25.466 --> 14:26.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I say you're not tough enough

14:26.900 --> 14:28.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to get rid of these people,
then.

14:28.300 --> 14:31.066 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
But Hoffa was contemptuous.

14:31.066 --> 14:32.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He denied any wrongdoing,

14:32.933 --> 14:35.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
taunting the crusading
young investigator.

14:35.366 --> 14:38.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
KENNEDY: Did you say, "That
S.O.B., I'll break his back"?

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Who?

14:39.633 --> 14:40.700 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
 
KENNEDY: You.

14:40.700 --> 14:41.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Say it to who?

14:41.633 --> 14:42.633 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
KENNEDY:
To anyone.

14:42.633 --> 14:43.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
HOFFA: Figure of speech--

14:43.800 --> 14:44.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I don't even know
who I was talking about,

14:44.933 --> 14:46.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
and I don't know
what you're talking about.

14:46.266 --> 14:48.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
KENNEDY: Mr. Hoffa,
all I'm trying to find out...

14:48.666 --> 14:50.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
I'll tell you
what I'm talking about.

14:50.166 --> 14:52.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I'm trying to find out whose
back you were going to break.

14:52.966 --> 14:54.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Figure of speech.

14:54.700 --> 14:56.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
 
Figure of speech.

14:56.900 --> 14:59.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: "I used to love,"
Hoffa said,

14:59.200 --> 15:00.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
"to bug the little bastard."

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Bobby could never
bring Hoffa down,

15:04.466 --> 15:07.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
but his zealous efforts won him
the attention

15:07.100 --> 15:08.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
of the nation's press--

15:08.500 --> 15:11.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
much to the delight
of his brother Jack,

15:11.133 --> 15:13.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
who was a member of the
Senate Rackets Committee, too.

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♪ ♪

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"Two boyish young men
from Boston,"

15:18.300 --> 15:20.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
wrote a reporter
in "Look"magazine,

15:20.366 --> 15:23.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"have become hot tourist
attractions in Washington."

15:23.366 --> 15:26.366 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

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The Kennedys' fabulous wealth,

15:35.833 --> 15:38.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
their marriages,
their glamour,

15:38.633 --> 15:42.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
all made them favorites
of the picture magazines.

15:44.133 --> 15:47.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"I think he found himself
during the Hoffa investigation,"

15:47.633 --> 15:49.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
a friend said.

15:49.266 --> 15:54.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"For the first time in his life,
Bobby was happy."

15:55.833 --> 15:58.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
But in September 1959,

15:58.033 --> 16:00.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby resigned from
the Senate Rackets Committee,

16:00.466 --> 16:02.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
where he had made his mark.

16:02.733 --> 16:05.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
His brother was running
for president.

16:05.400 --> 16:06.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(crowd cheering)

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♪ ♪

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When Jack set out to win
the Democratic nomination,

16:16.266 --> 16:21.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby once again put
his own ambitions aside.

16:21.433 --> 16:24.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He would do whatever it took
to get his brother elected.

16:27.733 --> 16:29.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
While Jack rose above the fray,

16:29.933 --> 16:32.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby took on the gritty
day-to-day business

16:32.200 --> 16:33.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
of running the campaign:

16:33.633 --> 16:37.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
pushing his staffers
to their limits;

16:39.800 --> 16:42.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
attacking Jack's opponents;

16:42.566 --> 16:47.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
becoming the campaign's
dark driving force.

16:47.166 --> 16:49.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
As one journalist put it,

16:49.966 --> 16:53.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"Whenever you see Bobby Kennedy
in public with his brother,

16:53.233 --> 16:57.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
he looks as though
he showed up for a rumble."

16:57.133 --> 17:01.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(crowd cheering)

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By the time the Democrats met
for their convention

17:05.033 --> 17:06.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
in Los Angeles,

17:06.566 --> 17:09.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Kennedy seemed to have
the nomination wrapped up.

17:09.233 --> 17:11.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
But Lyndon Johnson,

17:11.300 --> 17:13.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the powerful Senate
majority leader from Texas,

17:13.600 --> 17:15.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
set out to stop him.

17:15.733 --> 17:19.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
The person you select
as your president...

17:19.133 --> 17:21.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
his judgment,

17:21.333 --> 17:23.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the responsibilities
he's shouldered,

17:23.233 --> 17:27.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the weight he's carried,
the burdens he knows...

17:27.566 --> 17:29.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the decision he makes
may well determine

17:29.800 --> 17:33.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
whether you live as free men.

17:33.166 --> 17:34.533 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(cheering)

17:34.533 --> 17:35.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
NARRATOR: LBJ was one

17:35.766 --> 17:38.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
of America's smartest
political operators,

17:38.866 --> 17:41.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
but Bobby outmaneuvered him,

17:41.400 --> 17:43.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
skillfully working
the convention floor,

17:43.166 --> 17:48.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
making sure that LBJ didn't
get the votes.

17:48.333 --> 17:49.866 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
DELEGATE:
Mr. Chairman...

17:49.866 --> 17:55.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Wyoming's vote will make the
majority for Senator Kennedy.

17:55.266 --> 17:58.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(cheers and applause)

17:58.700 --> 18:01.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: John Kennedy was
nominated overwhelmingly

18:01.233 --> 18:04.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
on the first ballot.

18:04.433 --> 18:09.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Now all that was left was
the choice for vice president.

18:09.166 --> 18:12.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
When he chose Lyndon Johnson,

18:12.300 --> 18:14.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
he set into motion
a sequence of events

18:14.833 --> 18:17.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
that left Bobby and LBJ

18:17.266 --> 18:20.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
smoldering with resentments
that would never go away.

18:20.766 --> 18:27.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
From the very first, LBJ
and Bobby detested each other.

18:27.166 --> 18:30.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
It was, as Johnson politely
described it,

18:30.200 --> 18:31.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"a matter of chemistry."

18:31.900 --> 18:34.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
NICHOLAS KATZENBACH:
It was just oil and water.

18:34.133 --> 18:36.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Bobby was very moralistic;

18:36.133 --> 18:40.300 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
integrity meant everything
to him.

18:40.300 --> 18:44.033 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60%
And LBJ was a...
was a politician.

18:44.033 --> 18:46.933 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65%
Robert Kennedy spoke
the word "politician"

18:46.933 --> 18:48.500 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
as if it were an obscenity.

18:48.500 --> 18:52.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He hated the back slapping,
the log rolling,

18:52.100 --> 18:54.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
all of the horse trading
of politics--

18:54.966 --> 18:58.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the sort of thing that
Lyndon Johnson absolutely loved.

18:58.100 --> 19:01.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
DALLEK: Bobby dislikes Johnson
intensely,

19:01.600 --> 19:04.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
but Jack Kennedy
is calling the shots.

19:04.400 --> 19:06.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And what Jack Kennedy
understands

19:06.233 --> 19:09.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
is that as a Northeastern
Irish Catholic,

19:09.766 --> 19:13.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
he needs very much
to get Southern votes.

19:13.333 --> 19:15.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
And so it becomes essential

19:15.300 --> 19:18.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to bring someone like
Lyndon Johnson onto the ticket.

19:18.800 --> 19:20.933 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
But once they let out the word

19:20.933 --> 19:22.833 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
that they're going to make
Lyndon Johnson

19:22.833 --> 19:24.800 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
the vice presidential nominee,

19:24.800 --> 19:28.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
labor and liberals
in the party throw a fit.

19:28.833 --> 19:32.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Bobby is charged by his brother
with the responsibility

19:32.766 --> 19:34.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
of talking Johnson
off the ticket.

19:34.833 --> 19:37.266 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

19:37.266 --> 19:40.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: Bobby confronted
Johnson in his hotel room

19:40.200 --> 19:43.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and told him flatly
that JFK no longer wanted him

19:43.766 --> 19:46.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to be the vice presidential
nominee.

19:46.533 --> 19:50.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
LBJ didn't believe him.

19:50.766 --> 19:53.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Insulted, he refused to quit.

19:53.400 --> 19:55.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
DALLEK: Johnson wants to be
vice president.

19:55.533 --> 19:56.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He's not going to back down.

19:56.866 --> 19:58.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He's not going to give up.

19:58.100 --> 20:01.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
And he thinks
that Bobby is operating

20:01.533 --> 20:03.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
without Jack's approval.

20:03.066 --> 20:06.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
"Bobby's been out of touch,"

20:06.133 --> 20:08.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Jack leaked to a reporter.

20:08.366 --> 20:10.666 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"He doesn't know
what's happening."

20:10.666 --> 20:12.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
SHESOL: Bobby is absolutely
taking the fall

20:12.600 --> 20:13.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
for his brother here,

20:13.933 --> 20:16.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and that suits John Kennedy
perfectly well.

20:16.366 --> 20:19.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And Johnson has fallen
for this head fake,

20:19.700 --> 20:21.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
but it is absolutely
inconceivable

20:21.500 --> 20:23.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to anybody who knew
the Kennedy brothers

20:23.266 --> 20:26.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that Robert Kennedy would be
acting on his own

20:26.100 --> 20:29.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to split up his brother's
presidential ticket

20:29.066 --> 20:31.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
within hours
of the deal being sealed.

20:31.366 --> 20:33.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
And I am grateful, finally,

20:33.566 --> 20:36.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
that I can rely
in the coming months

20:36.366 --> 20:38.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
on many others,

20:38.366 --> 20:39.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
on a distinguished running mate

20:39.800 --> 20:44.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
who brings unity and strength
to our platform and our ticket--

20:44.966 --> 20:45.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Lyndon Johnson.

20:45.966 --> 20:49.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(cheers and applause)

20:49.166 --> 20:51.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
SHESOL: Lyndon Johnson will
never forgive Robert Kennedy

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for this.

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The manner of the selection

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of Lyndon Johnson
as vice president

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severed the relationship between
the two of them permanently,

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and there would be
no turning back.

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For the rest of his life,
Johnson will say

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that "John Kennedy offered me
the vice presidency,

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"and in the dark of night,

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Bobby Kennedy came downstairs
to try to take it away from me."

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♪ ♪

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NARRATOR: The election of 1960
was too close to call.

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JFK won
by only 120,000 votes--

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as one Kennedy aide
described it,

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"a gnat's eyebrow."

21:30.100 --> 21:32.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby had driven himself
relentlessly,

21:32.333 --> 21:36.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and JFK was forever grateful.

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"He's the hardest worker,
he's the greatest organizer,"

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President John Kennedy said.

21:41.500 --> 21:45.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"Easily the best man
I've ever seen."

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As JFK prepared to assume
the reins of power,

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he wanted Bobby by his side

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and appointed his 35-year-old
brother attorney general.

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SEIGENTHALER: It was
a controversial appointment--

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he had never been a lawyer
in a courtroom--

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and it was nepotism.

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I mean, he was the brother
of the president.

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ANTHONY LEWIS:
His experience was zero.

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He'd been a lawyer
for Senate committees,

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a zealot with no understanding
of the terrible responsibilities

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of an attorney general.

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I was appalled.

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I thought it was
a simply awful idea.

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♪ ♪

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NARRATOR:
Bobby surprised everyone,

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moving quickly to show

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he was more than just
the president's brother.

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There are a number
of different areas

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where action is needed.

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I think that in the field
of organized crime,

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I think
it's a very serious situation

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that's facing the country
at the present time.

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NARRATOR: Within two weeks
of taking office,

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he became the first
attorney general ever

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to declare "war on crime."

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He proved a hard,
tireless worker,

22:57.900 --> 23:01.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and his casual, freewheeling
style was a striking departure

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from the formality
of bureaucratic Washington.

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ANTHONY LEWIS:
He was unlike

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any other attorney general
I've known.

23:09.900 --> 23:13.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He wandered around
in his shirtsleeves.

23:13.400 --> 23:16.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He had his big, huge dog,
Brumus, in his office.

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The kids came in.

23:18.166 --> 23:20.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
The children's drawings were
on the wall.

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HARRIS WOFFORD: If you saw Bob
Kennedy in a tie at his office,

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it would be way down, open.

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His office was a place
of constant motion,

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and doing things unexpected,
breaking the schedule.

23:35.000 --> 23:37.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
He was not
a sit-behind-your-desk man.

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NARRATOR: But just three months

23:39.666 --> 23:42.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
after Bobby had started
his new job,

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he received an urgent summons
to the Oval Office.

23:46.266 --> 23:49.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
The president was face-to-face
with disaster.

23:53.566 --> 23:57.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JFK had gone along with
a C.I.A. plan to invade Cuba

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with a small army
of Cuban exiles.

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The president had been assured

24:02.900 --> 24:04.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that the Cuban people
would rise up

24:04.900 --> 24:07.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
against the communist government
of Fidel Castro

24:07.833 --> 24:10.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
and revolt.

24:10.300 --> 24:13.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
But the C.I.A. had been wrong.

24:14.333 --> 24:16.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Bobby watched helplessly

24:16.566 --> 24:19.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
as his brother wrestled
with catastrophe.

24:19.766 --> 24:21.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
The invaders were under attack.

24:21.966 --> 24:25.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Castro's army was taking
prisoners.

24:25.166 --> 24:29.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"They can't do this
to you," Bobby said.

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But the invasion failed.

24:31.500 --> 24:33.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
JFK had fumbled badly.

24:35.966 --> 24:38.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Now the president would turn
to his brother

24:38.566 --> 24:39.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
for advice and counsel

24:39.700 --> 24:43.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
as he never had before.

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SHESOL: Traditionally,
attorneys general

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have nothing to do
with foreign policy,

24:46.366 --> 24:48.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
but after the Bay of Pigs,

24:48.266 --> 24:50.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
John Kennedy really wanted Bobby
by his side,

24:50.433 --> 24:52.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
helping him to make
the decisions on everything.

24:52.500 --> 24:54.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Because there was only
one person in the world

24:54.833 --> 24:57.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that John Kennedy trusted
unequivocally,

24:57.300 --> 24:58.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and that was Robert Kennedy.

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I think that brought them
much closer together

25:01.066 --> 25:03.000 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
than they had been earlier.

25:03.000 --> 25:04.166 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65%
There was, I think,

25:04.166 --> 25:08.433 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5%
a recognition
for the first time by Jack,

25:08.433 --> 25:11.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
on a need for Bobby, rather than
simply a use of Bobby.

25:11.933 --> 25:14.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THOMAS: You would think
that after the Bay of Pigs,

25:14.200 --> 25:17.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the lesson would be,
don't mess with Castro.

25:17.233 --> 25:18.833 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
Bobby's nature, however,

25:18.833 --> 25:20.900 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
was not, when the yellow light
was blinking,

25:20.900 --> 25:22.833 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5%
to hit the brakes,
but rather to hit the gas.

25:25.166 --> 25:28.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
Castro became Bobby's obsession.

25:28.166 --> 25:30.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Working closely with the C.I.A.,

25:30.333 --> 25:33.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Bobby launched a secret war
against him,

25:33.500 --> 25:36.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
code-named
"Operation Mongoose."

25:36.766 --> 25:39.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
SAMUEL HALPERN: All kinds of
things were tried, all kinds--

25:39.766 --> 25:41.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
tried to infiltrate
the military,

25:41.433 --> 25:45.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
to have a coup
or a revolt, sabotage.

25:45.266 --> 25:47.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He was pushing, always pushing.

25:47.600 --> 25:51.866 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
Bobby Kennedy wanted things
blown up, so we blew things up.

25:51.866 --> 25:55.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
Nothing was off-limits.

25:55.233 --> 25:58.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Between 1960 and 1965,

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the C.I.A. made at least
eight separate attempts

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on Fidel Castro's life.

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But neither of the Kennedys
was ever directly linked

26:07.300 --> 26:08.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
to any of them.

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HALPERN: The orders I got were,
"Get rid of Castro."

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And I kept asking them, "What
do you mean by, 'Get rid of?'

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"Can you be a little bit
more specific?

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"What do you want to happen?

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What do you want to see
as an end result?"

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They said,
"We want him to disappear."

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Then it's left up to you,
as a senior officer,

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to decide what your limits are,
if any.

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THOMAS: My own conclusion

26:32.333 --> 26:37.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
is that Bobby never quite
came out and said,

26:37.100 --> 26:38.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
"You must kill this guy."

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You will never find
good evidence.

26:40.700 --> 26:41.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
They didn't write it down.

26:41.966 --> 26:46.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Uh, Joe Kennedy
once said to Bobby,

26:46.100 --> 26:49.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"Never write it down--
old Irish rule in Boston."

26:51.766 --> 26:53.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: Bobby attempted
to oust Castro

26:53.466 --> 26:55.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
for nearly two years,

26:55.833 --> 27:00.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
but his efforts only seemed
to stiffen Cuban resolve.

27:00.900 --> 27:02.533 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
HALPERN:
Total waste of effort.

27:02.533 --> 27:04.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I tried to tell them that
at the time.

27:04.500 --> 27:06.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
We were not going to succeed.

27:06.466 --> 27:09.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Fidel was going to be there,
and he's going to stay there.

27:09.100 --> 27:14.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
But Bobby Kennedy didn't
understand what his limits were.

27:14.733 --> 27:17.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
No matter what we told him,
no matter what we tried to do,

27:17.766 --> 27:19.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
no matter how many people
we put on the job,

27:19.966 --> 27:22.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
he was always screaming
for more.

27:26.600 --> 27:30.566 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

27:41.300 --> 27:46.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: By the end of 1961,
Bobby Kennedy was 36 years old

27:46.433 --> 27:48.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
and the father
of seven children.

27:48.833 --> 27:52.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
After a long day
at the Justice Department,

27:52.333 --> 27:55.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
he returned home
to a Civil War mansion

27:55.333 --> 27:57.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
just outside of Washington

27:57.366 --> 27:58.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
called Hickory Hill.

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SEIGENTHALER: It was a household
where there was constantly

28:04.900 --> 28:06.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
something going on.

28:06.400 --> 28:08.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Bob was overloaded with work,

28:08.000 --> 28:10.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
but he always took time
for those children.

28:10.566 --> 28:15.300 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

28:15.300 --> 28:17.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND: There
was a lot of physical affection.

28:17.933 --> 28:20.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Saturday or Sunday,
all the children

28:20.366 --> 28:22.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
would pile into my parents' beds

28:22.633 --> 28:24.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and tickle each other, and it
was called a "tickle tumble."

28:27.033 --> 28:28.966 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
And of course,
there were plenty of dogs,

28:28.966 --> 28:30.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
plenty of horses.

28:30.933 --> 28:34.200 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
My brother Bobby collected,
you know, reptiles.

28:34.200 --> 28:36.700 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65%
We had a coatimundi,
hawks, falcons.

28:36.700 --> 28:40.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
It was a menagerie.

28:40.100 --> 28:42.300 align:left position:45% line:5% size:45%
♪ ♪

28:42.300 --> 28:46.266 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60%
(child laughing)

28:47.833 --> 28:50.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: Hickory Hill was the
center of Bobby's private world.

28:54.233 --> 28:57.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
To be invited
to a Hickory Hill party

28:57.333 --> 29:00.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
signaled acceptance
into an exclusive community

29:00.566 --> 29:03.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
of power and privilege.

29:03.300 --> 29:04.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THOMAS: A Hickory Hill party
was a weird mixture

29:04.733 --> 29:06.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
of kind of fraternity party

29:06.333 --> 29:10.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
and high-minded salon.

29:10.800 --> 29:12.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And it was kind of
a fun mix of both,

29:12.666 --> 29:14.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
because they did talk
about serious issues.

29:14.133 --> 29:16.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
They had Hickory Hill seminars,

29:16.100 --> 29:17.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
where they would bring in
famous people

29:17.733 --> 29:21.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to lecture about child
development or juvenile crime

29:21.733 --> 29:23.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
or the future of the Cold War.

29:23.533 --> 29:25.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
At the same time,
they're goofing around

29:25.533 --> 29:26.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and they're playing charades.

29:26.733 --> 29:28.000 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

29:28.000 --> 29:29.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
It was an odd mixture

29:29.366 --> 29:34.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
of high sophistication
and childish hijinks.

29:34.500 --> 29:38.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
There was a childlike quality
to Bobby Kennedy.

29:38.000 --> 29:42.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby was always asking
what flavor ice cream you like,

29:42.400 --> 29:43.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and his favorite was chocolate.

29:43.566 --> 29:46.433 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

29:46.433 --> 29:48.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: There were always
plenty of games,

29:48.566 --> 29:52.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
including Bobby's favorite,
touch football.

29:54.566 --> 29:56.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
SEIGENTHALER: I really didn't
like to play the Kennedy brand

29:56.133 --> 29:57.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
of touch football.

29:57.266 --> 30:00.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
The rules were crazy.

30:00.400 --> 30:02.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
They made up the rules
as they went along,

30:02.566 --> 30:03.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
or they had their own rules.

30:06.200 --> 30:08.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I played a couple of times,

30:08.066 --> 30:09.700 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
but I'd usually try to find
something to do--

30:09.700 --> 30:11.633 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5%
you know, somebody had
to make a phone call,

30:11.633 --> 30:13.366 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
or have to go to the bathroom.

30:16.200 --> 30:17.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
They were so competitive
with each other,

30:17.733 --> 30:20.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
it was no real fun to play.

30:25.800 --> 30:27.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: When all the guests
had gone home,

30:27.800 --> 30:29.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Bobby and Ethel assembled
their children

30:29.900 --> 30:31.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
for an evening ritual.

30:34.033 --> 30:37.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TOWNSEND: My mother
and my father shared a belief

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that we are on earth
for a short period of time,

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and that we are actually
children of God.

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We prayed every night

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that John Kennedy would be
the best president ever

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and that our father would be
the best attorney general ever.

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NARRATOR: The Kennedy brothers
were now a team.

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Jack needed his brother,

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and nowhere more
than with a problem

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that had begun
to tear the country apart--

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the struggle
of African-Americans

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for equal rights.

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In the spring of 1961,

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a group called
the Freedom Riders set out

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to integrate bus stations
across the South.

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In a little Alabama town
called Anniston,

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an angry mob attacked them,
burning their bus,

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beating them mercilessly.

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JOHN LEWIS: The Freedom Ride
was very dangerous.

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Just our very being,
our very presence,

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was very, very dangerous.

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During those days, it was
impossible for a person of color

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to get on a bus in the South

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without being forced to go
to the back of the bus,

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or go to a waiting room
marked "Colored Waiting."

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Or use a restroom facility

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marked "Colored Men,"
"Colored Women."

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We wanted to bring down
those signs.

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NARRATOR: The Freedom Riders
were acting

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on their constitutional rights.

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Federal statute outlawed
segregation in bus terminals

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used in interstate
transportation,

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and as attorney general,

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Robert Kennedy was obligated
to enforce the law.

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I didn't know a great deal
about Robert Kennedy.

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I knew he was the brother of the
president of the United States.

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I knew he was
the attorney general.

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I wanted him to... to intervene.

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NARRATOR:
But Bobby was reluctant.

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The rage and resistance
from white Southerners

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had taken him by surprise.

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"Before I became attorney
general," he admitted,

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"I won't say I lay awake
at night

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worrying about civil rights."

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NEWFIELD: I think he was slow
and late in getting it

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about the Civil Rights Movement.

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Robert Kennedy was saying

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what most of the establishment
said in that period--

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"It's a good idea,
but it's the wrong time."

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KATZENBACH:
I don't think any of us

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going into the department,

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despite our views
on civil rights,

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really appreciated
how mean it was in the South

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and how dangerous it was.

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Bobby used to compare the
discrimination against blacks

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to... to the "No Irish Wanted."

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And you know, that... that was
a wrong... a wrong comparison--

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one I think was actually
resented by blacks,

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despite the fact
that he meant it well.

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ROGER WILKINS:
They didn't know black people.

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They didn't know black pain.

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They were not comfortable
with black people.

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So there was no reason
to expect,

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I can say in retrospect,

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them to be wise
and passionate about this.

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WOFFORD: The president and the
attorney general both realized

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that the civil rights issue

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was the hot rail
in American politics.

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They had won an election with,
by 100,000 votes.

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They didn't really command a,
a working majority in Congress.

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It was very narrow on any issue.

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The Southern Democrats defecting

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would have meant the loss
of, of any legislative agenda.

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NARRATOR: As the Freedom Riders
traveled deeper into Alabama,

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Bobby, fearing more violence,
was determined to stop them.

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"Tell them," he told the special
deputy for civil rights,

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"to call it off!"

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WOFFORD: He got on the phone

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and said,
"Stop those Freedom Riders.

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"The president's about to go
to Vienna to meet Khrushchev.

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"It's embarrassing us
before the world.

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Stop it!"

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They were under way.

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They were not a stoppable group.

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WILKINS:
Black people in the South

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had gotten the sense
of their efficacy

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as people and as citizens.

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And to have Bob Kennedy's
Justice Department

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tell them what to do

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would have been taking
a major step backward.

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Who are you going to listen to?

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Are you going to listen to
the black people of the South,

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or are you going to listen
to the kid from Massachusetts?

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Well, that's an easy answer.

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WOFFORD:
Bob was angry

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that they were upsetting
everything by doing this.

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He wanted
the civil rights movement

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to focus on winning
the right to vote,

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and he didn't like his
more stately agenda being upset.

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But, once it was upset,
then Bobby went into action.

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NARRATOR: Desperate to find
a way to protect the riders,

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frantically improvising, Bobby
sent his aide John Seigenthaler

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to meet with Alabama Governor
John Patterson.

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SEIGENTHALER:
I go in and sit down,

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and I say,
"I'm from the attorney general.

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These people have
to be given safe conduct."

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He says, "We can't protect them.

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"I am telling you,
it is impossible.

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"All the people we've got
in this state upset about this--

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"I mean, of course
people are violent.

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"These people are coming here
asking for a fight,

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and they're going
to get a fight."

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JOHN LEWIS: That evening,
we stayed in the waiting room

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at the Greyhound bus station
in Birmingham all night.

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We kept hearing rumors
that Robert Kennedy was trying

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to negotiate a way for us
to leave Birmingham.

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He kept saying to people,
we had a right to travel.

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I said, "Governor, look.

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"If you can't protect them,
we don't have any choice.

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"Either we've got
to have marshals come in

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"and protect them,

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"or troops come in
and protect them.

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That's the last thing you want,
the last thing,"

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and he banged the table,
he said,

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"If marshals or troops
come into Alabama,

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blood will run in the streets."

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♪ ♪

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NARRATOR: Seigenthaler
and Patterson struck a deal.

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The Freedom Riders would have
state protection.

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As they headed toward the
Alabama capital in Montgomery,

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Bobby believed that they would
be given safe passage.

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JOHN LEWIS: It was so strange;
it was eerie, frightening.

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It was so quiet, so peaceful.

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And the moment we arrived
at the bus station,

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the very moment we started down
the steps off of that bus,

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a mob came out of nowhere,

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and they beat and beat
the reporters,

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and you saw blood everywhere.

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And then they turned on us.

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I was hit in the head
by a member of the mob

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with a wooden crate.

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And my seatmate was...
beaten so bad,

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and I found myself laying
in a pool of blood.

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SEIGENTHALER: And as I pulled up
to the bus station,

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you could hear the screams.

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I just leaped out of the car.

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And at that moment, they
wheeled me around and said...

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Two guys, and said,

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"What do you think
you're doing?"

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I said-- magic words: "Get back.

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I'm with
the federal government."

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And as I turned back,

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they hit me with a pipe,
right here.

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JOHN LEWIS: Robert Kennedy
became educated

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in a real hurry.

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And I'll tell you the thing
that sealed it for him,

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perhaps more
than anything else--

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after John Seigenthaler
was beaten,

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someone that he knew.

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I think everything he thought

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the administration of justice
and law enforcement

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was supposed to be about

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had been violated--
that it was an outrage,

38:53.200 --> 38:57.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that it was a stain on law
enforcement to let that happen.

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♪ ♪

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NARRATOR: Frustrated
by Southern officials,

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Bobby ordered the
Interstate Commerce Commission

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to enforce the ban
on segregation

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in public transportation.

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All of those signs that said

39:13.233 --> 39:17.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"White Waiting,"
"Colored Waiting," "White Men,"

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"Colored Men," "White Women,"
"Colored Women"--

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those signs came tumbling down.

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NEWFIELD: He began to understand
civil rights in stages.

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Very few people who are
in great positions of power

39:33.466 --> 39:38.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
actually go through
real interior change,

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but Robert Kennedy
really did change,

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and that change, I think,
began around civil rights.

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♪ ♪

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NARRATOR:
While civil rights protests

39:55.633 --> 39:57.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and demonstrations continued,

39:57.800 --> 40:02.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
the Kennedy administration was
faced with yet another crisis.

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On October 16, 1962,

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the president learned
that the Soviet Union

40:10.666 --> 40:13.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
was deploying nuclear missiles
in Cuba

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capable of vaporizing American
cities along the East Coast

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within minutes.

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ARTHUR SCHLESINGER: It is
the most dangerous moment

40:21.866 --> 40:23.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
in all human history.

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Never before had two contending
powers possessed between them

40:28.866 --> 40:32.200 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5%
the technical capacity
to blow up the world.

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NARRATOR:
As the president's advisers

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debated the American response,

40:36.966 --> 40:39.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby's first instinct
was to lash out,

40:39.666 --> 40:42.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
pressing for air strikes
to destroy the bases--

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even for an invasion
of the island itself.

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THOMAS: On the first day,
when they discover the missiles,

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all Bobby wants to do is stage
a provocation and bomb Cuba.

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I mean, he's a complete
and total hawk.

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But this is
the significant part.

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He changes his mind.

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NARRATOR: After hours and hours
of intense debate,

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Bobby began to reconsider.

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"We've talked for 15 years
about the Russians

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making the first strike
against us," he said,

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"and we'd never do that.

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"Now to do that
to a small country...

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It's a hell of a burden
to carry."

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SHESOL: It's Robert Kennedy

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who makes the powerful
moral argument

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that to invade Cuba would be to
wage a Pearl Harbor in reverse,

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that America simply
didn't do this.

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We simply didn't wage
pre-emptive attacks.

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We didn't strike
without warning.

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And this argument
didn't carry the day,

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but it was
an important argument,

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and it started to affect
and slow down this rush to war.

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NARRATOR: "I was
very much surprised

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by Bobby's performance,"

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Undersecretary of State
George Ball said.

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"I always had a feeling
that Bobby had

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"a much too simplistic position
toward things.

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"But he behaved
quite differently

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during the Cuban
missile crisis."

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♪ ♪

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The crisis lasted 13 days,

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until the Russians finally
agreed to withdraw the missiles

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in exchange
for a public American pledge

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not to invade Cuba

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and a secret promise to withdraw
American missiles from Turkey.

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Bobby had hardly slept,
rarely gone home.

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An aide who walked
into his office remarked,

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"Something is different
in here."

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Bobby replied, "I'm older."

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♪♪

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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: The
thing that is hurting us most

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is the continued existence of
segregation and discrimination,

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and we think we are rendering
a great service to our nation,

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for this is not a struggle
for ourselves alone;

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it is a struggle to save
the soul of America.

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NARRATOR:
While the Kennedys

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were confronting
the Soviet Union,

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the civil rights movement
had not gone away.

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Bobby was determined to help,
but on his own terms.

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He was growing increasingly
exasperated with the man

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who was emerging
as the movement's

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most conspicuous and inspiring
leader,

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Martin Luther King.

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WOFFORD: Tension between King
and Bob Kennedy was inevitable.

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Here was an uncontrollable
force, a moral force,

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a person who was as much his
own man as Robert Kennedy was.

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Bob liked to, you know,
control his agenda.

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And King's business
was to, you know,

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overthrow people's agendas.

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King, I think,
worried about Bobby.

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He worried that he wasn't
morally committed enough.

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He didn't sense the passion
in Bobby.

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On the other hand,
he had great hope

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that Bobby's readiness
to use power

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would be turned to civil rights.

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He had hope, but he worried.

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NARRATOR: On May 3, 1963,

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King sent nonviolent protesters
into the streets of Birmingham

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to boycott the city's
segregated businesses.

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(screaming)

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NARRATOR:
As the Birmingham police

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used high-pressure hoses
to disperse them,

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Bobby watched it all
on television.

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Many of the protesters
were children.

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He was furious--

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caught between
a civil rights movement

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that refused to back down

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and the violent antagonism
of the South.

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ANTHONY LEWIS:
That a police chief would set

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police dogs and fire hoses
on people

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for demanding to be treated
fairly in a department store,

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that was bound to hit
at his moral core.

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The events entirely transformed
Robert Kennedy.

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He started out thinking
that it would be better

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if people would calm down,

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slow down, and let gradual
improvement take place.

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Bobby learned
that you couldn't wait,

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and that black people
were entitled

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to the most
elementary rights now.

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NARRATOR: That summer,
Bobby urged his brother

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to put a civil rights bill
before Congress

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that would put an end
to segregation

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in public accommodations.

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But the president
and his advisers hesitated.

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KATZENBACH: If you put
civil rights legislation

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before Congress,

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it was going to tie up
the Congress

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for the best part
of the next year.

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And that meant that whatever
other programs you had

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were going to be put
on a back burner.

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But Bobby convinced his brother
that not only was it right,

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but for the first time,
it was possible,

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and that the president
really has to take leadership

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on a moral issue.

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We are confronted primarily
with a moral issue.

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It is as old as the scriptures

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and is as clear
as the American Constitution.

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The heart of the question is

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whether all Americans
are to be afforded

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equal rights
and equal opportunities,

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whether we are going to treat
our fellow Americans

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as we want to be treated.

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JOHN LEWIS:
It was probably the first time

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in the history of our country

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that an American president
would say

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that the question
of civil rights,

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the question of race,

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was a moral issue.

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And he had the encouragement
of Robert Kennedy

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to push him in this direction.

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Robert Kennedy was learning--
he was growing.

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He said to me,
"John, I now understand.

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The young people
have educated me."

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And you could see it,
you could feel it.

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And Robert Kennedy during that
period became so convinced,

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not just as a politician,

46:58.766 --> 47:00.333 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
not just
as the attorney general,

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but as a human being,

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that it was time
for there to be some major steps

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to end racial discrimination
in America.

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NARRATOR: While Bobby
increasingly empathized

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with the civil rights movement,

47:13.033 --> 47:17.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that fall, he authorized
a wiretap on Martin Luther King

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at the request

47:18.633 --> 47:21.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
of one of the most powerful
figures in Washington.

47:21.333 --> 47:26.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
hated King,

47:26.333 --> 47:28.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
insisted that King was
a communist threat,

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and placed him
under close surveillance.

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Bobby acquiesced.

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If there were communists
in the civil rights movement,

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he wanted to know about it.

47:39.400 --> 47:41.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
But there was another reason:

47:41.833 --> 47:44.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Bobby was afraid of Hoover,

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not for himself,
but for his brother.

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STEEL:
Jack was a promiscuous guy

47:49.266 --> 47:50.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
who took great pleasure

47:50.766 --> 47:55.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
in having
a lot of women around him,

47:55.166 --> 47:58.466 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
and he was careless about this
after he became president,

47:58.466 --> 48:00.000 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65%
almost to the point
of recklessness.

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THOMAS: Bobby knew that Hoover
was a blackmail artist.

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He knew that Hoover had files
on his brother.

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Hoover had heard
that Bobby wanted to fire him.

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And he had wanted to use

48:12.133 --> 48:15.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
President Kennedy's
sexual habits

48:15.200 --> 48:17.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to essentially blackmail
the administration

48:17.733 --> 48:19.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
to make sure
that he kept his job.

48:19.033 --> 48:21.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WOFFORD: There's no question
Bob regretted

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that he had authorized
the wiretapping of King,

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but Hoover was somebody that
everybody was intimidated by.

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If Hoover ever released
any of the information he had,

48:33.766 --> 48:35.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
allowed it to be known,

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what would happen
to the Kennedy presidency?

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♪ ♪

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NARRATOR:
On November 20, 1963,

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Bobby celebrated
his 38th birthday

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at a party at Hickory Hill.

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The president stopped by
to wish him well.

49:05.233 --> 49:09.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He was about to leave
for a political trip to Dallas.

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He said
he was looking forward to it.

49:14.533 --> 49:17.600 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
Already the brothers were
thinking about the next election

49:17.600 --> 49:22.466 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5%
and the opportunities
a second term would give them.

49:22.466 --> 49:25.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Three years
of intense collaboration

49:25.133 --> 49:27.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
had bound them
so closely together,

49:27.333 --> 49:31.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
each seemed to know
what the other was thinking.

49:31.533 --> 49:33.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SCHLESINGER: No sooner
did one of them begin a sentence

49:33.466 --> 49:35.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
than the other knew
what he was saying.

49:35.966 --> 49:39.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
They understood each other
so well

49:39.066 --> 49:41.733 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
that they talked
in a kind of shorthand.

49:44.866 --> 49:46.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
RICHARD GOODWIN: Well, everybody
was having a good time.

49:46.466 --> 49:49.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
It was a birthday party,
and the president stopped by.

49:49.133 --> 49:51.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
The motorcade came up,

49:51.300 --> 49:52.766 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80%
and he came in and shook hands.

49:52.766 --> 49:54.400 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
He didn't stay very long,
as I remember.

49:54.400 --> 49:58.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Then he was off to Dallas,
I guess, the next day.

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NARRATOR: Bobby would never see
his brother again.

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On the afternoon
of November 22, 1963,

50:12.033 --> 50:15.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Robert Kennedy received a phone
call from J. Edgar Hoover.

50:18.166 --> 50:20.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"I have news for you,"
Hoover said.

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"The president's been shot."

50:25.733 --> 50:29.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
30 minutes later,
the phone rang again.

50:29.833 --> 50:34.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Bobby's brother was dead.

50:38.733 --> 50:42.200 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

50:52.600 --> 50:56.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
On November 24, 1963,

50:56.533 --> 50:59.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
while the nation mourned
a president,

50:59.500 --> 51:01.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Robert Kennedy grieved
for a brother

51:01.600 --> 51:04.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
to whom he had been devoted.

51:06.000 --> 51:08.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
SEIGENTHALER:
It was a physical blow to him,

51:08.833 --> 51:10.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
that loss of his brother--

51:10.933 --> 51:14.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
an emotional blow,
intellectual blow,

51:14.800 --> 51:17.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
but it took
a physical toll on him.

51:17.100 --> 51:19.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He was physically in pain.

51:22.366 --> 51:27.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
ADAM WALINSKY:
The enormous sadness and ache,

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it was there all the time.

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I never knew him

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when he wasn't in a kind of
mourning for President Kennedy.

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♪ ♪

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CHARLES SPALDING:
I was with Bobby,

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and I talked with him
for a while

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and it came time to go to bed,

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so I closed the door
and I waited outside,

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and I heard him just sobbing,

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and he was saying,
"Why, why, God, why?"

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STEEL: I think that Bobby found
himself bereft, alone,

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and the inheritor of not only
a family ambition,

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but a national myth.

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♪ ♪

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When Jack died,
Bobby was truly at a loss.

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He was deprived not only
of a brother he loved,

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but, in a sense,
of his own identity,

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because to be the helper,

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and be the servant,
and be the henchman

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could no longer be his identity.

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He had to forge some kind
of identity for himself.

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NARRATOR: He didn't know
who he was or what he stood for

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or what he was capable of.

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His brother's legacy
was his to bear.

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Now he would have to struggle
to create a legacy of his own.

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(fire)

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(fire)

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♪ ♪

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(crowd applauding)

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It would have been difficult
for Robert Kennedy

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to watch any man take
his brother's place,

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but watching Lyndon Johnson
was next to impossible.

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All I have

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I would have given gladly

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not to be standing here today.

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NARRATOR: The two men
now rarely spoke of one another

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without contempt.

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Bobby described LBJ
as "mean, bitter, vicious."

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LBJ called Bobby
"a snot-nosed kid"

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and "a grandstanding
little runt."

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SHESOL: Johnson had particular
contempt for the fact

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that Robert Kennedy had never
run for office,

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he had never been elected
to anything.

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And he saw him
as a child of privilege,

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as someone who had never really
earned the offices that he held.

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Whereas Lyndon Johnson had had
to fight for it on his own

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and earned it in his own right.

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NARRATOR: LBJ moved quickly
to assume the mantle

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of the fallen president.

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He convinced
a reluctant Robert Kennedy,

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along with the rest
of John Kennedy's Cabinet,

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to stay on,

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then swiftly began to push

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JFK's sputtering
legislative program

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through Congress.

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My fellow Americans,

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I am about to sign into law
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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SHESOL:
The Kennedy legislative program

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was sitting on the Hill
and not doing much of anything

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by the time
of John Kennedy's assassination.

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Lyndon Johnson picks it up,
infuses it with energy,

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gives it new meaning
and new strength,

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and drives it
through the Congress

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like only Lyndon Johnson can.

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This administration today,
here and now,

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declares unconditional war
on poverty in America.

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(applause)

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SHESOL: One might expect
Robert Kennedy to be pleased

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about the success
of the Kennedy agenda.

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But it was hard to be pleased
with what LBJ was doing

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when it was LBJ doing it,
and not his brother.

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SHESOL: He thinks of Johnson
as a usurper,

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he thinks of Johnson
as illegitimate,

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and it's painful for him

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to watch Johnson take these
pieces of his brother's legacy,

55:46.600 --> 55:51.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and take ownership
of his brother's legacy.

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It no longer belongs
to his brother.

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It no longer belongs to him.

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It belongs to Lyndon Johnson.

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NARRATOR: While LBJ dominated
the nation's politics,

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Bobby remained inconsolable.

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He was a haunted man,
forever dwelling on his loss,

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as if cultivating the pain

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helped keep
his brother's memory alive.

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He took to wearing
his brother's old jacket,

56:18.700 --> 56:21.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
although he often
forgot it somewhere,

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as if the jacket was at once
a connection to his brother,

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and a kind of burden

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he desperately wanted
to leave behind.

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SEIGENTHALER:
Pain was etched on his face.

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He told me he couldn't sleep,
he'd lost weight.

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He asked me how he looked.

56:34.733 --> 56:35.733 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
I said, "You look like hell."

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And he did.

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STEEL: He'd become--
as in the Robert Frost poem

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that his brother also
often loved to quote--

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acquainted with the night.

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♪ ♪

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NARRATOR:
He and the president's widow

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often visited
John Kennedy's grave--

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their shared sorrow
drawing them closer together.

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When his faith
in the Catholic Church

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could not alone sustain him,

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it was Jacqueline Kennedy
who suggested

57:08.700 --> 57:13.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
he read the tragic dramas
of the ancient Greeks.

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"In agony, learn wisdom,"
he read in Aeschylus.

57:20.700 --> 57:23.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"Injustice is the nature
of things."

57:25.800 --> 57:28.400 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
STEEL:
Grief humanized him.

57:28.400 --> 57:30.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I think it took him away
from a life

57:30.566 --> 57:35.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
dedicated to power and will
and ambition

57:35.133 --> 57:38.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
toward a...

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a deeper identification
with people who suffered.

57:44.100 --> 57:48.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: Slowly, Bobby emerged
from his despair,

57:48.833 --> 57:52.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
reconnecting to the everyday
world through politics

57:52.266 --> 57:55.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and his need to carry forth
the legacy of his brother.

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Over the past few weeks,
many leading members

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of the Democratic
and the Liberal parties

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here in the state of New York

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have talked to me
about being a candidate

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for the United States Senate...

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NARRATOR:
On August 22, 1964,

58:14.200 --> 58:15.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
still wearing the black tie

58:15.733 --> 58:18.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
he had worn since
his brother's death,

58:18.100 --> 58:20.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Robert Kennedy announced
that for the first time,

58:20.766 --> 58:23.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
he would run
for political office.

58:23.366 --> 58:27.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I shall resign from the Cabinet
to campaign for election.

58:27.800 --> 58:29.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I shall devote all of my effort

58:29.900 --> 58:32.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and all of whatever talents
that I possess

58:32.566 --> 58:34.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
to the state of New York.

58:34.800 --> 58:36.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
This I pledge.

58:36.100 --> 58:38.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(crowds cheering)

58:38.833 --> 58:41.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NEWFIELD: It is the biggest
transition of his life,

58:41.100 --> 58:44.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to go from the shadows
to the stage.

58:44.166 --> 58:47.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And he had a fear:
"What if I lose?

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"What if I let my brother down?

58:49.466 --> 58:51.400 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
"What if I let my family down?

58:51.400 --> 58:53.300 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5%
"What if I've made
the wrong decision?

58:53.300 --> 58:55.333 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5%
What if I'm not ready
to run for the Senate?"

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He was still a wounded animal,
half a zombie.

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He wasn't ready
to, to face the voters.

59:05.166 --> 59:07.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
MAN: The former attorney general
of the United States

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and candidate for United States
Senate from New York,

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Robert F. Kennedy.

59:11.566 --> 59:12.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(cheers and applause)

59:12.933 --> 59:14.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NEWFIELD: He was still hurting
and suffering.

59:17.566 --> 59:20.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: Although voters
turned out in large numbers,

59:20.933 --> 59:25.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby found it hard
to accept their enthusiasm.

59:25.100 --> 59:28.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"They're cheering him,"
he said.

59:28.300 --> 59:30.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"They're for him."

59:30.133 --> 59:33.666 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
He didn't want to trade
on being his brother's brother.

59:33.666 --> 59:35.166 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80%
He didn't think that was right.

59:35.166 --> 59:39.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
At the same time, he didn't
really have a series of things

59:39.900 --> 59:42.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
that "I, Robert Kennedy, will do

59:42.033 --> 59:43.733 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
as the senator
from the state of New York."

59:43.733 --> 59:46.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
REPORTER: What about this tour
of the Fulton Fish Market?

59:46.233 --> 59:47.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
What are your impressions?

59:47.433 --> 59:51.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Well, they have a lot of fish
in the, uh...

59:51.133 --> 59:52.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And it just didn't work
very well.

59:52.733 --> 59:56.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I am very pleased and happy

59:56.766 --> 01:00:02.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to have the opportunity to speak
with all of you this morning.

01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:04.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: He quickly fell behind
in the polls.

01:00:04.833 --> 01:00:09.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He was struggling to define
himself and what he stood for.

01:00:09.133 --> 01:00:14.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I, uh... join, uh...
Senator Rob, Bob Brownstein

01:00:14.733 --> 01:00:17.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and Congressman Multer...

01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:18.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SHESOL: He has spoken
for his brother,

01:00:18.700 --> 01:00:19.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
on behalf of his brother,

01:00:19.933 --> 01:00:22.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
for most of his political life.

01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:24.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Suddenly he's a figure
in his own right,

01:00:24.433 --> 01:00:25.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
but he can really
only see himself

01:00:25.933 --> 01:00:27.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
as fulfilling
his brother's legacy,

01:00:27.900 --> 01:00:29.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
doing what his brother would do

01:00:29.700 --> 01:00:31.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
if only his brother
were still with us.

01:00:31.433 --> 01:00:35.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I think we started something
three-and-a-half years ago.

01:00:35.166 --> 01:00:37.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I think it was started
January 1961,

01:00:37.266 --> 01:00:38.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and I think this election

01:00:38.766 --> 01:00:40.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
is whether
we're going to keep it going.

01:00:40.533 --> 01:00:41.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(crowd cheers)

01:00:41.800 --> 01:00:44.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NEWFIELD: He quoted his brother
almost obsessively.

01:00:44.333 --> 01:00:47.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He... had a lot of the hand
gestures of his brother.

01:00:47.266 --> 01:00:49.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And it was easy to believe
for a minute,

01:00:49.566 --> 01:00:51.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and you didn't have to close
your eyes to do it,

01:00:51.233 --> 01:00:53.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that John Kennedy
was still with us.

01:00:53.966 --> 01:00:55.666 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
And if we want
to continue that effort,

01:00:55.666 --> 01:00:57.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
then we have to elect
a Democratic administration.

01:00:57.966 --> 01:00:59.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(cheers and applause)

01:00:59.766 --> 01:01:01.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
Bobby was at war with himself,

01:01:01.900 --> 01:01:03.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
his need to emulate his brother

01:01:03.800 --> 01:01:07.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
battling with his desire
to find his own voice.

01:01:07.400 --> 01:01:08.966 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:01:08.966 --> 01:01:10.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
KENNEDY: I think
that this election's important,

01:01:10.700 --> 01:01:12.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
because I think there's
a lot that needs to be done.

01:01:12.833 --> 01:01:15.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
...an intolerable situation,
and it has to be changed.

01:01:15.533 --> 01:01:18.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
If I'm elected
to the United States Senate,

01:01:18.400 --> 01:01:20.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I intend to fight for that.

01:01:20.366 --> 01:01:21.500 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
Despite the cheering crowds,

01:01:21.500 --> 01:01:23.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
as the campaign wound down,

01:01:23.366 --> 01:01:25.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the election remained
too close to call.

01:01:25.766 --> 01:01:29.500 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:01:29.500 --> 01:01:31.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Much to Kennedy's chagrin,

01:01:31.433 --> 01:01:34.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
there was only one man
who could help him.

01:01:34.566 --> 01:01:37.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
The United States

01:01:37.200 --> 01:01:44.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
needs a young, dynamic,
compassionate, fighting liberal

01:01:44.733 --> 01:01:47.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
representing New York
in the United States Senate--

01:01:47.200 --> 01:01:48.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Bob Kennedy.

01:01:48.200 --> 01:01:50.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(cheers and applause)

01:01:50.866 --> 01:01:52.866 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
EDELMAN:
It had to stick in RFK's craw

01:01:52.866 --> 01:01:55.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to have to accept anything
from Lyndon Johnson.

01:01:57.566 --> 01:02:00.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: Bobby had trouble
hiding his distaste,

01:02:00.166 --> 01:02:01.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
but he was a pragmatist.

01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:05.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
LBJ may have hated Bobby,

01:02:05.533 --> 01:02:09.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
but he wanted a Democrat
in the Senate.

01:02:09.366 --> 01:02:11.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(crowds cheering)

01:02:11.533 --> 01:02:13.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
When all the votes were counted,

01:02:13.900 --> 01:02:17.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
LBJ had helped put Bobby
over the top.

01:02:17.100 --> 01:02:19.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
KENNEDY: For all of us who were
elected on this day,

01:02:19.833 --> 01:02:22.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
all of us now have
a responsibility.

01:02:22.200 --> 01:02:23.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Our job has just begun.

01:02:23.400 --> 01:02:27.166 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:02:27.166 --> 01:02:33.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: But even victory could
not relieve his melancholy.

01:02:33.033 --> 01:02:36.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"If my brother was alive,"
Bobby told a friend,

01:02:36.733 --> 01:02:39.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"I wouldn't be here.

01:02:39.066 --> 01:02:41.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I'd rather have it that way."

01:02:43.333 --> 01:02:47.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
That night, Bobby called LBJ
to thank him for his help.

01:02:47.500 --> 01:02:49.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
JOHNSON (on phone): We got a lot
to be thankful for, Bobby,

01:02:49.366 --> 01:02:51.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and give our love to Ethel,
and, uh...

01:02:51.833 --> 01:02:55.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Let's... Let's stay as close
together as he'd want us to.

01:02:55.300 --> 01:02:57.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
KENNEDY: That'd be fine,
that'd be fine, Mr. President.

01:02:57.533 --> 01:02:58.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Congratulations, sir.

01:02:58.633 --> 01:02:59.766 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
JOHNSON:
Tell all that staff of yours

01:02:59.766 --> 01:03:02.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that ain't nobody going
to divide us,

01:03:02.133 --> 01:03:03.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and I'll tell mine
the same way, and we'll...

01:03:03.600 --> 01:03:04.600 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
KENNEDY:
That's right.

01:03:04.600 --> 01:03:05.600 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
JOHNSON:
We'll move ahead, and...

01:03:05.600 --> 01:03:06.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
I'm proud of you.

01:03:06.933 --> 01:03:08.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
KENNEDY: Thanks very much,
thanks for your help.

01:03:08.566 --> 01:03:09.600 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
JOHNSON:
Thank you for calling.

01:03:09.600 --> 01:03:10.666 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
KENNEDY:
It made a hell of a difference.

01:03:10.666 --> 01:03:11.666 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
Thanks.

01:03:11.666 --> 01:03:12.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(phone disconnects)

01:03:19.066 --> 01:03:22.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: Bobby Kennedy was
never cut out to be a senator.

01:03:22.466 --> 01:03:24.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
He was used
to making things happen,

01:03:24.533 --> 01:03:27.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and the Senate's glacial pace
irritated him.

01:03:27.633 --> 01:03:29.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
THOMAS: He was
the second-most powerful man

01:03:29.433 --> 01:03:31.266 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
in the most powerful country
in the world,

01:03:31.266 --> 01:03:32.800 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
and now he's a junior senator.

01:03:32.800 --> 01:03:35.133 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
He can't even get a seat on
the Foreign Relations Committee.

01:03:35.133 --> 01:03:36.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He used to run covert actions,

01:03:36.500 --> 01:03:38.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and now he can't even
go to the hearings.

01:03:38.333 --> 01:03:41.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
So he is a grumpy,
cranky senator,

01:03:41.466 --> 01:03:43.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
who won't sit
through long-winded speeches

01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:45.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and is disrespectful
of other senators.

01:03:45.200 --> 01:03:47.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He'll just get up and walk out.

01:03:47.733 --> 01:03:49.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
Bobby, a friend said,

01:03:49.433 --> 01:03:53.866 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
felt impotent,
frustrated, floundering.

01:03:53.866 --> 01:03:56.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He escaped the Senate chambers
as often as he could,

01:03:56.900 --> 01:04:00.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
channeling his restless
energies elsewhere.

01:04:00.066 --> 01:04:02.566 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:04:02.566 --> 01:04:04.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Two months after taking his seat
in the Senate,

01:04:04.766 --> 01:04:09.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
he set out to scale a 14,000-
foot mountain in Canada,

01:04:09.433 --> 01:04:12.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
recently named Mount Kennedy
after his brother.

01:04:12.366 --> 01:04:17.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
No one had ever made it
to the top before.

01:04:17.100 --> 01:04:21.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And Robert Kennedy had never
climbed a mountain before.

01:04:21.166 --> 01:04:23.166 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
THOMAS:
Bobby hated heights.

01:04:23.166 --> 01:04:24.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He was afraid of heights.

01:04:24.666 --> 01:04:25.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He didn't train for it, really.

01:04:25.966 --> 01:04:28.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I mean, he joked that,
as Ethel said,

01:04:28.100 --> 01:04:29.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
that he trained for it

01:04:29.500 --> 01:04:30.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
by running up and down
the stairs yelling, "Help."

01:04:32.866 --> 01:04:35.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
He was nearly 40 years old.

01:04:35.433 --> 01:04:39.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Now, roped between
two veteran climbers,

01:04:39.700 --> 01:04:41.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Bobby forced his way forward,

01:04:41.766 --> 01:04:45.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
urging the others
to increase the pace.

01:04:47.866 --> 01:04:51.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NEWFIELD: I think Robert Kennedy
had a reckless streak in him.

01:04:51.366 --> 01:04:54.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He was a ferocious competitor

01:04:54.800 --> 01:04:57.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and with a tremendous amount
of aggression and will.

01:04:57.833 --> 01:05:01.333 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:05:12.300 --> 01:05:13.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
After two days of climbing,

01:05:13.766 --> 01:05:17.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
nearing the top,
Bobby moved ahead

01:05:17.133 --> 01:05:21.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and reached the summit alone.

01:05:21.800 --> 01:05:25.133 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:05:25.133 --> 01:05:28.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Kneeling down, he wedged
his brother's inaugural address

01:05:28.933 --> 01:05:30.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
into the snow.

01:05:36.366 --> 01:05:41.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
For a moment, he stared off
into the distance.

01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:45.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"I didn't really enjoy
any part of it," he said later.

01:05:47.833 --> 01:05:49.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
It was a daring exploit,

01:05:49.766 --> 01:05:54.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and a media sensation that would
have delighted any politician.

01:05:54.866 --> 01:05:59.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
But American politics were
about to take a darker turn.

01:05:59.133 --> 01:06:00.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Bombs had begun to fall

01:06:00.766 --> 01:06:04.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
on a small impoverished country
in Southeast Asia.

01:06:04.733 --> 01:06:08.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
(explosions booming,
bombs whistling)

01:06:08.933 --> 01:06:11.733 align:left position:45% line:5% size:45%
♪ ♪

01:06:11.733 --> 01:06:15.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Lyndon Johnson began bombing
North Vietnam

01:06:15.166 --> 01:06:19.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
in February 1965.

01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:24.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He had inherited the war
from Bobby's brother.

01:06:24.666 --> 01:06:28.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Now he was escalating it.

01:06:28.966 --> 01:06:30.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
(helicopter rotors spinning)

01:06:30.666 --> 01:06:33.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
With Vietnam divided
into a communist North

01:06:33.433 --> 01:06:35.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and an American-supported
South,

01:06:35.666 --> 01:06:38.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
LBJ hoped
that massive air assaults

01:06:38.600 --> 01:06:41.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
would force the North Vietnamese
to abandon their efforts

01:06:41.933 --> 01:06:43.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
to reunite the country.

01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:49.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
But the North Vietnamese
resisted.

01:06:51.900 --> 01:06:54.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
For the next three years,

01:06:54.133 --> 01:06:57.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Robert Kennedy's fate
would be increasingly bound

01:06:57.933 --> 01:07:01.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to the outcome of a war
on the other side of the world.

01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:06.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby had been committed
to the war

01:07:06.966 --> 01:07:09.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
when his brother was president.

01:07:09.200 --> 01:07:11.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Now that LBJ was
in the White House,

01:07:11.166 --> 01:07:14.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
he continued to support
its objectives.

01:07:15.400 --> 01:07:17.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"The loss of Vietnam,"
he told an aide,

01:07:17.866 --> 01:07:20.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
would mean "the loss
of all of Southeast Asia

01:07:20.833 --> 01:07:21.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
"and have profound effects

01:07:21.933 --> 01:07:25.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
on our position
throughout the world."

01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:26.633 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
THOMAS:
Bobby is a Cold Warrior.

01:07:26.633 --> 01:07:29.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He shares the worldview
that communism is a threat,

01:07:29.300 --> 01:07:32.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and it's advancing,
and that you have to contain it,

01:07:32.066 --> 01:07:33.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
so he doesn't question
the underlying assumptions

01:07:33.933 --> 01:07:35.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
of the Vietnam War.

01:07:35.300 --> 01:07:37.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
He embraces them
and endorses them.

01:07:37.366 --> 01:07:39.966 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:07:45.433 --> 01:07:47.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(explosions booming)

01:07:47.333 --> 01:07:50.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
SHESOL: But Robert Kennedy
is deeply uneasy

01:07:50.000 --> 01:07:52.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
about Johnson's escalation
of the war,

01:07:52.800 --> 01:07:55.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
really from the very beginning.

01:07:57.333 --> 01:08:00.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He speaks to Johnson
privately, on the telephone--

01:08:00.300 --> 01:08:01.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
conversations
that were recorded.

01:08:01.766 --> 01:08:04.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
KENNEDY (on phone): I have
not been involved intimately

01:08:04.400 --> 01:08:07.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
with, uh,
Southeast Asia, Vietnam,

01:08:07.333 --> 01:08:10.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
but I would think that that war
will never be won militarily;

01:08:10.466 --> 01:08:13.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that where it's going to be won,
really, is a political war.

01:08:13.966 --> 01:08:17.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Military action obviously
will have to be taken,

01:08:17.166 --> 01:08:20.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
but unless the political action
is taken concurrently,

01:08:20.666 --> 01:08:23.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
in my judgment, I just don't
think it can be successful.

01:08:23.766 --> 01:08:27.066 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
JOHNSON:
I think that, uh...

01:08:27.066 --> 01:08:28.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
that's good thinking

01:08:28.366 --> 01:08:30.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and that's not any different

01:08:30.733 --> 01:08:33.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
from the way
I have felt about it.

01:08:33.366 --> 01:08:34.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
SHESOL: Johnson says

01:08:34.566 --> 01:08:37.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
that he agrees
with Bobby Kennedy completely.

01:08:37.200 --> 01:08:38.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
And this is the sort of thing

01:08:38.566 --> 01:08:40.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that Johnson probably believes
when he's saying it,

01:08:40.900 --> 01:08:43.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
but it is not the course
of U.S. policy.

01:08:43.566 --> 01:08:46.033 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:08:46.033 --> 01:08:48.666 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
All through the spring of 1965,

01:08:48.666 --> 01:08:52.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Johnson continued
to up the ante.

01:08:52.500 --> 01:08:56.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He had already sent 75,000
American soldiers to Vietnam.

01:08:59.500 --> 01:09:03.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
That July, he sent 50,000 more.

01:09:03.833 --> 01:09:06.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
As the war drifted
out of control,

01:09:06.266 --> 01:09:10.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Bobby began to tentatively air
his doubts in public.

01:09:10.066 --> 01:09:12.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
May I ask you
the direct question:

01:09:12.233 --> 01:09:15.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Do support fully
his present policy on Vietnam?

01:09:18.233 --> 01:09:19.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Well, I support basic...

01:09:19.633 --> 01:09:22.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I basically support the policy,
Mr. Spivak.

01:09:22.700 --> 01:09:25.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I have some reservations
about whether we're doing enough

01:09:25.700 --> 01:09:28.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
in the economic
and the political field,

01:09:28.100 --> 01:09:31.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and I also have felt
for some period of time

01:09:31.866 --> 01:09:35.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that a major effort
had to be undertaken

01:09:35.200 --> 01:09:36.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
in the diplomatic field.

01:09:36.733 --> 01:09:39.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
SHESOL: Robert Kennedy believes
that America needs

01:09:39.166 --> 01:09:42.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to bring Ho Chi Minh
to the table to negotiate.

01:09:42.300 --> 01:09:44.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Johnson, meanwhile,
is taking the opposite course,

01:09:44.733 --> 01:09:47.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
which is to escalate, to try
to bomb Ho into submission.

01:09:47.900 --> 01:09:54.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: For the rest of 1966,
Bobby said little about the war.

01:09:54.200 --> 01:09:58.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Instead, he turned his attention
to problems at home.

01:09:58.133 --> 01:10:02.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He would begin to speak out
on behalf of the dispossessed,

01:10:02.200 --> 01:10:04.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and as he reached out to them,

01:10:04.233 --> 01:10:07.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
he would transform
his sense of himself.

01:10:07.766 --> 01:10:11.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(sirens wailing)

01:10:15.700 --> 01:10:19.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
In the summer of 1965,

01:10:19.566 --> 01:10:22.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
riots in Watts,

01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:24.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
a poor African-American section
of Los Angeles,

01:10:24.333 --> 01:10:29.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
left 34 people dead
and more than 1,000 injured.

01:10:29.433 --> 01:10:32.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Bobby was shaken.

01:10:32.533 --> 01:10:34.733 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WALINSKY:
He bumped into some reporter,

01:10:34.733 --> 01:10:36.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
who asked him what he thought

01:10:36.466 --> 01:10:38.500 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
about, you know,
"Should these Negroes"--

01:10:38.500 --> 01:10:40.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
as we called them then--

01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:42.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"be obeying the law?"

01:10:42.033 --> 01:10:44.266 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
And he said, "Well," he said,
"I don't know."

01:10:44.266 --> 01:10:46.200 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
He said, "What did the law
ever do for the Negro?"

01:10:46.200 --> 01:10:49.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I don't think that
it's possible in our society

01:10:49.900 --> 01:10:51.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
and with our government

01:10:51.133 --> 01:10:54.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to tolerate lawlessness
and disorder and violence.

01:10:54.700 --> 01:10:55.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
But at the same time,

01:10:55.966 --> 01:10:58.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I think that we've got
to make more progress

01:10:58.600 --> 01:11:00.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
than we have in the past,

01:11:00.500 --> 01:11:03.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
be more effective with the
programs that we've instituted,

01:11:03.266 --> 01:11:10.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
have some imagination to try
to deal with the lack of hope

01:11:10.033 --> 01:11:12.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that exists in many
of these communities.

01:11:12.366 --> 01:11:18.233 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:11:18.233 --> 01:11:19.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: In a neighborhood
in Brooklyn

01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:21.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
called Bedford-Stuyvesant,

01:11:21.566 --> 01:11:23.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby Kennedy meant
to show the nation

01:11:23.866 --> 01:11:26.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
what could be done
about poverty.

01:11:29.266 --> 01:11:32.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NEWFIELD: Bedford-Stuyvesant
has got tremendous problems

01:11:32.200 --> 01:11:36.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
of unemployment,
drugs, slum housing,

01:11:36.766 --> 01:11:39.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and Robert Kennedy
was an activist.

01:11:39.333 --> 01:11:42.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He wanted to do something
about it.

01:11:42.800 --> 01:11:45.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He felt it was cheap grace
to just make a speech

01:11:45.333 --> 01:11:49.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and deplore poverty or racism
and not do something about it.

01:11:49.700 --> 01:11:53.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
EDELMAN: And so he gets involved
with the community leadership,

01:11:53.400 --> 01:11:57.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and they plan together
an initiative that will be,

01:11:57.966 --> 01:11:59.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
not only about housing
in the neighborhood,

01:11:59.366 --> 01:12:02.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
but about jobs
and about public safety

01:12:02.833 --> 01:12:05.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and about really trying
to build a community there.

01:12:05.833 --> 01:12:08.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
What we brought together
for the first time, really,

01:12:08.866 --> 01:12:11.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
is the city,
private foundations,

01:12:11.266 --> 01:12:12.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
the federal government,

01:12:12.566 --> 01:12:17.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and I think most significant,
the private sector.

01:12:17.033 --> 01:12:20.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WALINSKY: When he went to the
businesspeople, he didn't say,

01:12:20.033 --> 01:12:23.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"I want you to give money,
I want charity,"

01:12:23.200 --> 01:12:26.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
because that's too easy--
that just buys off.

01:12:26.433 --> 01:12:31.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
What he did was, he said,
"I want investment here.

01:12:31.000 --> 01:12:32.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"I want you to run
business here.

01:12:32.733 --> 01:12:34.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
"I want you to hire people.

01:12:34.166 --> 01:12:36.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I want you to make things here."

01:12:36.233 --> 01:12:38.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
To have any success
in Bedford-Stuyvesant

01:12:38.300 --> 01:12:39.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
is going to require
the initiative

01:12:39.666 --> 01:12:41.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and the imagination
and the courage

01:12:41.233 --> 01:12:43.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
of the people who live
in the community.

01:12:43.833 --> 01:12:45.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
The programs are going
to have to be developed

01:12:45.933 --> 01:12:47.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
by the people who live
in the community.

01:12:47.766 --> 01:12:51.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WALINSKY: He believed the core
of any program had to be

01:12:51.766 --> 01:12:55.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
work and self-help
and self-mastery.

01:12:55.366 --> 01:12:58.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
People had to have
the wherewithal

01:12:58.933 --> 01:13:00.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
not to be defined by others,

01:13:00.700 --> 01:13:03.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
but to be able
to define themselves.

01:13:03.333 --> 01:13:05.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
America's a very rich country.

01:13:05.300 --> 01:13:07.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
We could just hand out incomes.

01:13:07.633 --> 01:13:11.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
What he said was, was that that
would be profoundly destructive.

01:13:11.133 --> 01:13:15.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He hated welfare, but thought
jobs were the solution,

01:13:15.133 --> 01:13:17.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
not just throwing people
off the rolls.

01:13:19.933 --> 01:13:23.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He had this empathy, seeing it
from the point of view

01:13:23.633 --> 01:13:26.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
of what it was like
to be a black child

01:13:26.300 --> 01:13:27.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
in a desperate situation,

01:13:27.566 --> 01:13:30.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
with no jobs
and no chance of college

01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:35.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and broken family and drugs
and gangs all around.

01:13:37.233 --> 01:13:39.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant,
and I'll never forget

01:13:39.666 --> 01:13:42.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
one of the days we're going
around Bed-Stuy, he said to me,

01:13:42.833 --> 01:13:44.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"I envy the fact
you grew up in poverty,

01:13:44.933 --> 01:13:48.166 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60%
and you grew up
with black friends."

01:13:48.166 --> 01:13:51.100 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
And I said, "Well, what
would've happened to you,

01:13:51.100 --> 01:13:54.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
if you had grown up
on this block, instead of me?"

01:13:54.366 --> 01:13:57.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And he looks up and down the
block at all... all of this,

01:13:57.233 --> 01:14:01.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
you know, poverty and drug
addiction and alcoholism,

01:14:01.100 --> 01:14:03.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and he says, "If I grew up here,
I would've either become

01:14:03.900 --> 01:14:07.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
a juvenile delinquent
or a revolutionary."

01:14:08.633 --> 01:14:10.066 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
Robert Kennedy had begun

01:14:10.066 --> 01:14:14.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to reach beyond the guarded
politics of his brother.

01:14:14.466 --> 01:14:18.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
John Kennedy had always
moved slowly, with caution.

01:14:18.066 --> 01:14:24.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Now, Bobby was throwing
caution to the wind.

01:14:24.066 --> 01:14:26.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(chanting)

01:14:28.666 --> 01:14:31.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
In March 1966,
Kennedy flew to California,

01:14:31.133 --> 01:14:33.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
where his Senate subcommittee

01:14:33.200 --> 01:14:35.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
was investigating
the causes of a strike

01:14:35.866 --> 01:14:37.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
by migrant grape pickers.

01:14:37.733 --> 01:14:39.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
(man talking indistinctly)

01:14:39.966 --> 01:14:42.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
EDELMAN: Robert Kennedy walks
into the hearings,

01:14:42.100 --> 01:14:45.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and the witness is this sheriff

01:14:45.233 --> 01:14:48.100 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5%
who is explaining
to the committee

01:14:48.100 --> 01:14:51.433 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
how it is that he's arresting
these demonstrators

01:14:51.433 --> 01:14:53.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
who are legally picketing.

01:14:53.900 --> 01:14:55.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
If I have reason
to believe

01:14:55.200 --> 01:14:57.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that there's going
to be a riot started,

01:14:57.366 --> 01:14:59.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and somebody tells me that
there's going to be trouble

01:14:59.866 --> 01:15:01.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
if you don't stop them,

01:15:01.300 --> 01:15:02.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
then it's my duty
to stop them.

01:15:02.733 --> 01:15:04.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
KENNEDY: And you go out
and arrest them?

01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:05.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Well, absolutely.

01:15:05.300 --> 01:15:06.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
How can you go arrest somebody

01:15:06.333 --> 01:15:08.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
if they haven't violated
the law?

01:15:08.100 --> 01:15:09.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SHERIFF: They're ready
to violate the law.

01:15:09.733 --> 01:15:10.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
In other words...

01:15:10.733 --> 01:15:12.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(crowd clamoring)

01:15:12.500 --> 01:15:14.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Just like these labor people
out here,

01:15:14.733 --> 01:15:16.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
if they ask their attorney,
"What shall we do?"

01:15:16.833 --> 01:15:17.833 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
KENNEDY:
Could I suggest

01:15:17.833 --> 01:15:19.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
in the luncheon period
of time

01:15:19.466 --> 01:15:21.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
that the sheriff
and the district attorney

01:15:21.333 --> 01:15:23.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
read the Constitution
of the United States?

01:15:23.500 --> 01:15:25.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(cheers and applause)

01:15:29.033 --> 01:15:31.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: Bobby declared his
support for the grape strike,

01:15:31.666 --> 01:15:34.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
even joined a picket line.

01:15:34.533 --> 01:15:38.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He was discovering there were
causes he believed in,

01:15:38.166 --> 01:15:40.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
people he could fight for.

01:15:40.733 --> 01:15:43.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NEWFIELD:
Kennedy took things personally.

01:15:43.100 --> 01:15:45.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He saw somebody hurting,
and he hurt.

01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:49.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He was so intense,
so personal

01:15:49.266 --> 01:15:53.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
about somebody else's pain
or injustice,

01:15:53.133 --> 01:15:54.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
and that's what made him

01:15:54.633 --> 01:15:56.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
a totally different
kind of senator.

01:15:56.766 --> 01:16:02.666 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:16:05.733 --> 01:16:08.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
By the beginning of 1967,

01:16:08.900 --> 01:16:13.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
almost 400,000 Americans
were fighting in Vietnam.

01:16:18.100 --> 01:16:20.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
More than 9,000 had been killed,

01:16:20.433 --> 01:16:24.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
more than 60,000 wounded.

01:16:26.566 --> 01:16:29.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
As the carnage continued,

01:16:29.033 --> 01:16:32.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
senators and congressmen
from Lyndon Johnson's own party

01:16:32.633 --> 01:16:36.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
began to speak out
against the war,

01:16:36.133 --> 01:16:40.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
but Bobby Kennedy
still hesitated.

01:16:40.333 --> 01:16:42.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NEWFIELD:
It took Kennedy a long time

01:16:42.100 --> 01:16:45.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to decide he was going
to oppose the Vietnam War.

01:16:45.800 --> 01:16:50.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
It was an agonizing process
of indecision.

01:16:50.333 --> 01:16:54.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He values courage
above all other human qualities,

01:16:54.966 --> 01:16:57.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and he realizes he's not
displaying courage,

01:16:57.733 --> 01:17:00.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
he's not displaying leadership.

01:17:00.366 --> 01:17:04.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
But he was conflicted.

01:17:08.666 --> 01:17:11.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
Not until February 1967

01:17:11.433 --> 01:17:14.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
would Kennedy break decisively
with the president,

01:17:14.200 --> 01:17:17.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
after a bitter confrontation
in the White House.

01:17:17.633 --> 01:17:19.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
SHESOL: Robert Kennedy takes
a trip to Europe

01:17:19.900 --> 01:17:21.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
in January of 1967,

01:17:21.533 --> 01:17:25.066 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
and he comes back to find that
there's a report in "Newsweek"

01:17:25.066 --> 01:17:27.900 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65%
that he has received
an important "peace feeler"--

01:17:27.900 --> 01:17:29.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
as it was called--
from the Vietnamese;

01:17:29.733 --> 01:17:33.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that they are trying to send
a plan for peace through him.

01:17:33.033 --> 01:17:35.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Now, there's no truth
to this whatsoever,

01:17:35.300 --> 01:17:36.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
but there it is in "Newsweek."

01:17:36.533 --> 01:17:38.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
KATZENBACH:
And LBJ called

01:17:38.800 --> 01:17:40.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and asked if we both could come
to the White House,

01:17:40.966 --> 01:17:42.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
which we did.

01:17:42.300 --> 01:17:44.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Johnson was in a foul mood.

01:17:44.033 --> 01:17:45.766 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
And he was embarrassed by it.

01:17:45.766 --> 01:17:48.233 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
And he was... he was always
prepared to think

01:17:48.233 --> 01:17:50.166 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
that anything that he was
embarrassed by

01:17:50.166 --> 01:17:52.066 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5%
was something
that Bobby had done.

01:17:52.066 --> 01:17:56.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
LBJ was just terrible.

01:17:56.233 --> 01:17:59.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He was mean and nasty to Bobby.

01:17:59.300 --> 01:18:02.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And Bobby was saying,
"I had nothing to do with this.

01:18:02.466 --> 01:18:05.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I don't know of any peace
feelers that were made."

01:18:05.633 --> 01:18:07.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
And Johnson believed none of it.

01:18:07.700 --> 01:18:10.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
And Bobby was just livid.

01:18:10.200 --> 01:18:11.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
He was so mad.

01:18:11.800 --> 01:18:14.100 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65%
And Bobby comes back
to his office

01:18:14.100 --> 01:18:16.700 align:left position:37.5% line:5% size:52.5%
and says,
"The president's unhinged."

01:18:16.700 --> 01:18:20.500 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80%
I mean, he was abusive and maybe
just not mentally stable.

01:18:20.500 --> 01:18:23.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He told his aides that he would
never again have anything to do

01:18:23.300 --> 01:18:24.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
with Lyndon Johnson,

01:18:24.566 --> 01:18:27.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that the way he had been treated
was so inexcusable

01:18:27.166 --> 01:18:30.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that he could simply never have
any real dealings with the man

01:18:30.366 --> 01:18:31.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
past that point.

01:18:31.600 --> 01:18:35.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
NARRATOR: A month later,
Bobby rose in the Senate,

01:18:35.700 --> 01:18:38.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
condemned the morality
of the war,

01:18:38.066 --> 01:18:42.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and then admitted his own share
of responsibility.

01:18:42.166 --> 01:18:45.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"I can testify," he said,
"that if fault is to be found,

01:18:45.700 --> 01:18:50.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
there is enough to go around
for all, including myself."

01:18:50.366 --> 01:18:53.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SHESOL: He is the first
politician, of either party,

01:18:53.766 --> 01:18:56.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to take responsibility
for what's happening in Vietnam,

01:18:56.700 --> 01:18:58.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the first politician
to accept blame,

01:18:58.933 --> 01:19:02.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
which gives a moral strength to
the argument that he's making.

01:19:02.933 --> 01:19:05.633 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
Do we have a right here
in the United States to say

01:19:05.633 --> 01:19:08.300 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
that we're going to kill
tens of thousands,

01:19:08.300 --> 01:19:10.200 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
make millions of people--
as we have--

01:19:10.200 --> 01:19:11.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
millions of people refugees,

01:19:11.966 --> 01:19:14.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
kill women and children--
as we have...

01:19:14.400 --> 01:19:17.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I very seriously question
whether we have that right.

01:19:17.600 --> 01:19:19.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Now we're saying,
"We're going to fight there

01:19:19.533 --> 01:19:21.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"so that we don't have
to fight in Thailand,

01:19:21.300 --> 01:19:22.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
"so that we don't have to fight

01:19:22.600 --> 01:19:24.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"on the West Coast
of the United States,

01:19:24.033 --> 01:19:26.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
so that they won't move
across the Rockies."

01:19:26.466 --> 01:19:28.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
But do we...
our whole moral position,

01:19:28.933 --> 01:19:31.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
it seems to me,
changes tremendously.

01:19:31.266 --> 01:19:33.066 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
SHESOL:
Robert Kennedy in 1967

01:19:33.066 --> 01:19:36.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
has come to question the basic
assumptions of the war.

01:19:36.200 --> 01:19:37.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
He has begun to question

01:19:37.566 --> 01:19:40.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
whether we really do need
to make a stand in Vietnam

01:19:40.166 --> 01:19:42.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to protect that region
from communism.

01:19:42.333 --> 01:19:43.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
He's come to question

01:19:43.633 --> 01:19:45.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
whether our national security
interest in Vietnam

01:19:45.966 --> 01:19:49.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
is outweighed by
the incredible human suffering

01:19:49.200 --> 01:19:51.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that we're inflicting
by waging war in this country.

01:19:51.733 --> 01:19:55.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He's questioning the moral
legitimacy of this war,

01:19:55.066 --> 01:19:59.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
which is something that
he hasn't done to this point.

01:19:59.666 --> 01:20:01.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He's confronted by new issues,

01:20:01.300 --> 01:20:05.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and he grows in order to be able
to face these challenges.

01:20:05.466 --> 01:20:07.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
He really learns
from experience,

01:20:07.366 --> 01:20:09.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and he really becomes
something much larger

01:20:09.500 --> 01:20:12.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
than what he was when he began.

01:20:12.700 --> 01:20:14.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
DALLEK: He becomes more
and more thoughtful,

01:20:14.166 --> 01:20:18.633 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
more and more philosophical,
more and more ready to accept

01:20:18.633 --> 01:20:21.666 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5%
that he does not have
a monopoly on wisdom,

01:20:21.666 --> 01:20:26.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that maybe this war in Vietnam
was a fundamental mistake,

01:20:26.866 --> 01:20:29.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and that maybe his brother
would've gotten out.

01:20:32.000 --> 01:20:33.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
ANTHONY LEWIS:
Most people acquire certainties

01:20:33.600 --> 01:20:34.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
as they grow older.

01:20:34.666 --> 01:20:37.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby Kennedy discarded
certainties.

01:20:37.533 --> 01:20:38.800 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
He grew.

01:20:38.800 --> 01:20:41.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He started as this zealot,

01:20:41.133 --> 01:20:44.333 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
and he ended up as this man
very sympathetic

01:20:44.333 --> 01:20:47.966 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
to those who were the despisèd
and rejected of life.

01:20:50.100 --> 01:20:52.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
NARRATOR: Robert Kennedy
was now reaching out

01:20:52.500 --> 01:20:55.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to Americans everywhere
who had been left behind.

01:21:00.566 --> 01:21:04.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He had fully awakened
from his dark night of mourning.

01:21:04.733 --> 01:21:08.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
The moral impulse to fight evil
and do good

01:21:08.600 --> 01:21:10.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that had always been
a part of him

01:21:10.266 --> 01:21:12.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
was taking a new direction.

01:21:12.766 --> 01:21:17.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NEWFIELD: He wanted to know what
life was like for someone else.

01:21:17.166 --> 01:21:21.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He would ask, "What do you feel,
what do you think?"

01:21:21.300 --> 01:21:27.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He wanted to be inside the eyes
of America's casualties.

01:21:27.966 --> 01:21:32.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He wanted to see the world
the way they saw it.

01:21:32.066 --> 01:21:36.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
ANTHONY LEWIS: People believed
in his understanding

01:21:36.366 --> 01:21:37.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
of their situation,

01:21:37.800 --> 01:21:40.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
because he visibly was moved.

01:21:40.000 --> 01:21:41.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He was someone who responded

01:21:41.766 --> 01:21:45.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
in the most graphic,
human, emotional terms.

01:21:45.466 --> 01:21:49.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He was somebody who bled,

01:21:49.266 --> 01:21:51.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
who was raw
from the hurt done to others.

01:21:51.800 --> 01:21:56.300 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
The hurt he felt from the
assassination of his brother

01:21:56.300 --> 01:21:58.433 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5%
gave him that empathy

01:21:58.433 --> 01:22:01.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
for everyone else
who hurt after that.

01:22:01.533 --> 01:22:04.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I think he did begin
to change incrementally

01:22:04.666 --> 01:22:08.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
while he was attorney general,
before his brother was killed,

01:22:08.866 --> 01:22:13.500 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
but I think
that all grew dramatically

01:22:13.500 --> 01:22:15.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
after his brother's murder,

01:22:15.566 --> 01:22:19.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
because then he identified
with every other victim.

01:22:19.933 --> 01:22:25.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Anyone who was a casualty
in life,

01:22:25.133 --> 01:22:30.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
he began to feel,
was his brother.

01:22:33.666 --> 01:22:35.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
PROTESTERS (chanting):
Hey, hey, LBJ,

01:22:35.200 --> 01:22:37.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
how many kids
did you kill today?

01:22:37.033 --> 01:22:40.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids
did you kill today?

01:22:40.966 --> 01:22:44.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
By 1967, America was in turmoil.

01:22:44.633 --> 01:22:46.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
PROTESTERS: Hey, hey, LBJ,

01:22:46.533 --> 01:22:48.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
how many kids
did you kill today?

01:22:48.233 --> 01:22:50.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
NARRATOR: Protesters
against the war in Vietnam

01:22:50.533 --> 01:22:52.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
marched on Washington

01:22:52.066 --> 01:22:54.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and bitterly attacked
the president.

01:22:54.866 --> 01:22:58.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
With the election
just one year away,

01:22:58.200 --> 01:23:01.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
they were desperate
for someone to challenge him.

01:23:01.233 --> 01:23:04.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Bobby Kennedy was besieged
from all sides

01:23:04.933 --> 01:23:07.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
by people urging him
to take on Johnson.

01:23:07.433 --> 01:23:12.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
But he hesitated,
profoundly conflicted.

01:23:12.133 --> 01:23:16.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"If I run," Bobby said, "I will
go a long way toward proving

01:23:16.666 --> 01:23:18.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"everything that everybody
who doesn't like me

01:23:18.900 --> 01:23:20.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"has said about me:

01:23:20.733 --> 01:23:23.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"that I've never accepted
Lyndon Johnson as president,

01:23:23.633 --> 01:23:27.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"that I'm just a selfish,
ambitious little S.O.B.

01:23:27.133 --> 01:23:30.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that can't wait to get his hands
on the White House."

01:23:30.233 --> 01:23:33.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He is absolutely tormented by
this decision he has to make,

01:23:33.733 --> 01:23:36.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
either to support Johnson
or to run for president.

01:23:36.333 --> 01:23:38.733 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
I said to him, "Don't run."

01:23:38.733 --> 01:23:39.933 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5%
I said to him,

01:23:39.933 --> 01:23:42.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"You're not going to unseat
Lyndon Johnson.

01:23:42.433 --> 01:23:44.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"He despises you.

01:23:44.033 --> 01:23:46.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"There's no way he's going
to step aside if you get in.

01:23:46.966 --> 01:23:50.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He'd love to take you
to the convention and beat you."

01:23:50.033 --> 01:23:52.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
But he was caught
in an emotional trap.

01:23:52.633 --> 01:23:56.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
It was as if inexorable forces
were pushing him

01:23:56.133 --> 01:23:57.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
in the direction of running.

01:23:57.500 --> 01:24:00.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And everything he was about
in life

01:24:00.533 --> 01:24:02.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
was suddenly on the line.

01:24:02.900 --> 01:24:06.300 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:24:06.300 --> 01:24:09.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NEWFIELD:
He was tortured about it.

01:24:09.433 --> 01:24:10.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I remember talking to him,

01:24:10.833 --> 01:24:13.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
and he suddenly,
this gusher came out

01:24:13.400 --> 01:24:15.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
about his feelings
about Johnson.

01:24:15.433 --> 01:24:17.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
And he says,
"I know he's president today

01:24:17.933 --> 01:24:21.433 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
"because
my brother appointed him...

01:24:21.433 --> 01:24:23.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"nominated him
for vice president.

01:24:23.100 --> 01:24:25.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
"I know my brother is implicated

01:24:25.033 --> 01:24:27.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"in the beginning
of the Vietnam War.

01:24:27.166 --> 01:24:29.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
"For me to run against Johnson,

01:24:29.600 --> 01:24:32.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I have to run against
President Kennedy's judgment."

01:24:32.933 --> 01:24:39.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And that was agonizing,
agonizing for Robert Kennedy,

01:24:39.166 --> 01:24:41.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
because, in a way,
it would have meant

01:24:41.166 --> 01:24:44.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
running against the person
he loved most in the world,

01:24:44.733 --> 01:24:46.900 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
his brother.

01:24:46.900 --> 01:24:48.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
PANELIST: Isn't it true

01:24:48.166 --> 01:24:50.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
people who believe that you
are the real alternative

01:24:50.033 --> 01:24:51.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
to President Johnson

01:24:51.033 --> 01:24:52.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
are going to bring pressure
upon you

01:24:52.733 --> 01:24:54.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and increase their activities
on your behalf?

01:24:54.433 --> 01:24:57.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I don't anticipate
that that will occur.

01:24:57.666 --> 01:25:00.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
But, uh...

01:25:00.833 --> 01:25:03.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I'm going to continue
as I have said,

01:25:03.100 --> 01:25:05.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and I'm not a candidate
for the Democratic nomination.

01:25:05.800 --> 01:25:07.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
MARTIN AGRONSKY:
Senator, I'm...

01:25:07.133 --> 01:25:09.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
KENNEDY: No matter what I do,
I'm in difficulty.

01:25:09.200 --> 01:25:11.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
PANELIST: Well,
I wasn't trying to get you...

01:25:11.233 --> 01:25:13.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
No, I know you weren't,
but isn't that...

01:25:13.533 --> 01:25:16.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
But you say, "Isn't that
what is going to happen?"

01:25:16.566 --> 01:25:18.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I suppose now all kinds
of things can happen.

01:25:18.800 --> 01:25:21.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I don't know what I can do
to prevent that

01:25:21.266 --> 01:25:23.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
or what I should do
that is any different,

01:25:23.066 --> 01:25:26.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
other than to try to get off
the earth in some way.

01:25:26.766 --> 01:25:29.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Senator, nobody wants you
to get off the earth, obviously.

01:25:29.933 --> 01:25:30.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Nobody's trying to put
you on the spot, really.

01:25:30.933 --> 01:25:32.366 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
No?

01:25:32.366 --> 01:25:34.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AGRONSKY: Everyone appreciates
the difficulty of your position.

01:25:37.000 --> 01:25:38.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
"The hottest places in hell,"

01:25:38.766 --> 01:25:41.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby liked to say,
quoting Dante,

01:25:41.233 --> 01:25:45.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"are reserved for those who,
in a time of great moral crisis,

01:25:45.700 --> 01:25:49.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
maintain their neutrality."

01:25:51.033 --> 01:25:54.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
While Bobby hesitated,
another liberal Democrat,

01:25:54.333 --> 01:25:56.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Minnesota senator
Eugene McCarthy,

01:25:56.433 --> 01:26:00.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
picked up the sword that Kennedy
was still refusing to wield.

01:26:00.400 --> 01:26:05.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I intend to enter the Democratic
primaries in four states...

01:26:05.433 --> 01:26:07.966 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
As McCarthy campaigned

01:26:07.966 --> 01:26:09.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
through New Hampshire
that winter,

01:26:09.833 --> 01:26:12.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Bobby watched
with dismay and envy.

01:26:12.400 --> 01:26:15.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NEWFIELD: It hurt Kennedy
that he was on the sidelines.

01:26:15.566 --> 01:26:16.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
More and more college students

01:26:16.866 --> 01:26:19.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
were not just going
to McCarthy's campaign

01:26:19.666 --> 01:26:21.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
but were starting to heckle him.

01:26:21.466 --> 01:26:23.466 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
I mean, he spoke
at Brooklyn College one day,

01:26:23.466 --> 01:26:28.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and there was a big sign,
"RFK: hawk, dove, or chicken?"

01:26:28.866 --> 01:26:31.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And that was a razor
in his heart.

01:26:31.566 --> 01:26:34.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He was really reeling around

01:26:34.033 --> 01:26:36.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
about what's
the right thing to do.

01:26:36.366 --> 01:26:39.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WALINSKY: But he did not see
how it's practical to run.

01:26:39.633 --> 01:26:47.433 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80%
He took a poll in New Hampshire
in January of that year

01:26:47.433 --> 01:26:51.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that showed Johnson
beating him there 67 to nine,

01:26:51.466 --> 01:26:53.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
or something like that.

01:26:53.433 --> 01:26:55.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
That was a pretty
convincing argument.

01:26:57.433 --> 01:27:00.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
At the end of January 1968,

01:27:00.533 --> 01:27:04.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
a miserable Robert Kennedy
finally reached a decision.

01:27:04.700 --> 01:27:07.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
He would not,
he told the National Press Club,

01:27:07.400 --> 01:27:10.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
oppose the president
for the Democratic nomination

01:27:10.200 --> 01:27:14.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
under any foreseeable
circumstances.

01:27:14.133 --> 01:27:16.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(explosions booming)

01:27:16.133 --> 01:27:18.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
(automatic gunfire rattling)

01:27:21.133 --> 01:27:23.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
That very same day,

01:27:23.666 --> 01:27:27.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Vietnamese communists
launched a series of attacks

01:27:27.566 --> 01:27:31.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that made him bitterly regret
his decision.

01:27:31.433 --> 01:27:35.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
REPORTER: 232 G.Is. killed
and 900 wounded

01:27:35.333 --> 01:27:38.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
in just over two days,
the past two days--

01:27:38.266 --> 01:27:40.466 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
two of the worst
we have known in Vietnam.

01:27:40.466 --> 01:27:46.733 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:27:46.733 --> 01:27:48.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
The widespread fighting

01:27:48.233 --> 01:27:52.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
convinced many Americans
that the war was far from over.

01:27:56.100 --> 01:27:59.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Frustrated with
the seemingly endless fighting,

01:27:59.333 --> 01:28:07.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
more and more turned away
from Johnson to Eugene McCarthy.

01:28:07.066 --> 01:28:08.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WALTER CRONKITE:
The big surprise

01:28:08.800 --> 01:28:10.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
of the first primary
of Campaign '68

01:28:10.533 --> 01:28:14.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
has been the strength
of Senator Eugene McCarthy.

01:28:14.533 --> 01:28:16.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
The volume with which
New Hampshire's voters

01:28:16.466 --> 01:28:18.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
today endorsed his effort

01:28:18.200 --> 01:28:19.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
signals trouble

01:28:19.700 --> 01:28:22.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
for President Johnson's as-yet
undeclared re-election bid.

01:28:22.533 --> 01:28:25.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
The president and his advisers
are most concerned

01:28:25.033 --> 01:28:29.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
about what tonight's returns
mean in terms of Bobby Kennedy.

01:28:29.300 --> 01:28:32.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Will Gene McCarthy's showing
be enough to tempt Kennedy

01:28:32.266 --> 01:28:34.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
into an open race
for the Democratic nomination?

01:28:34.866 --> 01:28:36.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"We just don't know
what Bobby will do,"

01:28:36.966 --> 01:28:39.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
one of the president's
closest friends said tonight,

01:28:39.233 --> 01:28:42.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
adding, "And until we do know,
we'll be wary."

01:28:42.266 --> 01:28:43.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
As I say, maybe I'll have
something further to say

01:28:43.900 --> 01:28:45.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
after I see the rest
of the figures-- thank you.

01:28:45.666 --> 01:28:47.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
REPORTER: Would you accept
a draft, Senator?

01:28:47.933 --> 01:28:49.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I don't think anybody's
suggested that.

01:28:49.400 --> 01:28:50.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
REPORTER: Well, I'm
suggesting it now.

01:28:50.666 --> 01:28:52.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Would you accept it?

01:28:52.066 --> 01:28:54.066 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
I don't think
that's a practical matter.

01:28:54.066 --> 01:28:55.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
REPORTER:
Would you refuse it?

01:28:55.900 --> 01:28:58.266 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I just don't think...
would you accept one?

01:28:59.933 --> 01:29:02.033 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
SHESOL:
He retreats into a deep funk.

01:29:02.033 --> 01:29:03.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He stops taking phone calls.

01:29:03.800 --> 01:29:06.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He paces around his office,
he won't talk to his aides.

01:29:06.600 --> 01:29:08.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He goes back to Hickory Hill

01:29:08.700 --> 01:29:11.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and seems to disappear
for several days.

01:29:11.700 --> 01:29:13.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
What he's doing
during this time--

01:29:13.366 --> 01:29:16.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
besides castigating himself
for making such a mistake--

01:29:16.166 --> 01:29:18.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
is deciding that he's going
to run for president.

01:29:18.133 --> 01:29:21.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And when he emerges,
he comes out swinging.

01:29:21.333 --> 01:29:25.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I am announcing today
my candidacy

01:29:25.033 --> 01:29:28.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
for the presidency
of the United States.

01:29:28.600 --> 01:29:33.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I do not run for the presidency
merely to oppose any man,

01:29:33.200 --> 01:29:36.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
but to propose new policies...

01:29:36.300 --> 01:29:39.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
SCHLESINGER: Jackie Kennedy
was much concerned

01:29:39.266 --> 01:29:43.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
by Robert Kennedy's entry
into the presidential contest.

01:29:43.200 --> 01:29:46.033 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65%
She said, "I believe
they're going to do

01:29:46.033 --> 01:29:48.933 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5%
the same thing to him
that they did to Jack."

01:29:48.933 --> 01:29:55.466 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:29:58.266 --> 01:30:01.700 align:left position:37.5% line:5% size:52.5%
(cheering)

01:30:04.366 --> 01:30:07.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: Kennedy's campaign
in the state primaries

01:30:07.666 --> 01:30:11.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
was part politics,
part crusade, part circus.

01:30:13.733 --> 01:30:17.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
In 15 days, he stormed
through 16 states,

01:30:17.600 --> 01:30:21.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
tens of thousands
of people screaming his name.

01:30:21.166 --> 01:30:24.500 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
ALL (shouting):
Bobby! Bobby!

01:30:24.500 --> 01:30:29.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
TOWNSEND: My father was mobbed,
wherever he went.

01:30:29.066 --> 01:30:31.633 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80%
People were trying to touch him,
trying to feel him,

01:30:31.633 --> 01:30:33.866 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
taking off his cuff links,
taking off his ties.

01:30:33.866 --> 01:30:35.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
I'd like to announce

01:30:35.466 --> 01:30:38.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that somebody's taking off
my shoe as I speak.

01:30:38.033 --> 01:30:39.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(crowd laughing)

01:30:39.966 --> 01:30:43.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WOFFORD: Bob was at his best
in that campaign.

01:30:43.800 --> 01:30:48.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He touched people, he was
speaking very directly to them.

01:30:48.833 --> 01:30:51.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
It was very heart-to-heart.

01:30:51.633 --> 01:30:55.633 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
He said he was doing it
to save the soul of the country.

01:30:55.633 --> 01:30:56.800 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65%
And I believed him.

01:30:56.800 --> 01:30:59.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
We can return government
to the people.

01:30:59.366 --> 01:31:01.466 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
We can change
this nation around.

01:31:01.466 --> 01:31:04.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
We can make a new effort
for peace in Vietnam.

01:31:04.733 --> 01:31:08.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
We can improve the life
and the quality of America

01:31:08.500 --> 01:31:09.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
here in the United States.

01:31:09.900 --> 01:31:11.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
I ask for your help.

01:31:11.866 --> 01:31:14.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Am I going to receive
your help?

01:31:14.133 --> 01:31:15.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(crowd screaming)

01:31:15.566 --> 01:31:17.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THOMAS: When he first goes out
on the stump,

01:31:17.733 --> 01:31:19.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
people go crazy.

01:31:19.300 --> 01:31:22.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
There's so much pent-up
anger and frustration,

01:31:22.966 --> 01:31:26.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and it's explosive
when Bobby goes out there.

01:31:26.666 --> 01:31:29.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
He goes to the Midwest--

01:31:29.233 --> 01:31:31.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
you would think
a bastion of conservatism--

01:31:31.800 --> 01:31:34.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and he appears in the University
of Kansas and Kansas State,

01:31:34.600 --> 01:31:36.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
in these big field houses,

01:31:36.333 --> 01:31:38.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and it's like the roof
is blown off.

01:31:38.366 --> 01:31:43.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(cheers and applause)

01:31:43.900 --> 01:31:45.066 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WALINSKY:
We get there,

01:31:45.066 --> 01:31:48.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the place is just...
not only is it packed,

01:31:48.933 --> 01:31:51.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
not only is every seat packed,

01:31:51.000 --> 01:31:54.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
the entire floor
is wall-to-wall people.

01:31:54.166 --> 01:31:57.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And there are people
sitting on the girders,

01:31:57.033 --> 01:31:59.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
practically hanging
from the ceiling,

01:31:59.966 --> 01:32:03.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and an unbelievable
cacophony of noise.

01:32:03.566 --> 01:32:06.933 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
(cheers)

01:32:06.933 --> 01:32:10.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NEWFIELD:
18,000 white farm kids

01:32:10.533 --> 01:32:13.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
in this big basketball
field house--

01:32:13.766 --> 01:32:17.500 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
he gives this powerful speech,

01:32:17.500 --> 01:32:21.366 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65%
uh, against the war,
all out, finally, like it's...

01:32:21.366 --> 01:32:23.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He's like a tiger
let out of the cage.

01:32:23.866 --> 01:32:28.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Our country is in danger
not just from foreign enemies,

01:32:28.200 --> 01:32:31.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
but above all,
from our own misguided policies.

01:32:31.166 --> 01:32:35.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
This war must be ended,

01:32:35.033 --> 01:32:37.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and in my judgment,
it can be ended.

01:32:37.933 --> 01:32:39.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And it does not involve
giving up,

01:32:39.933 --> 01:32:44.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
but it does involve
not continuing to follow

01:32:44.433 --> 01:32:46.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the bankrupt policy
that we're following

01:32:46.566 --> 01:32:48.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
at the present time.

01:32:48.533 --> 01:32:50.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(applause)

01:32:50.300 --> 01:32:53.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WALINSKY: The stronger he gets,
the louder the cheers.

01:32:53.166 --> 01:32:54.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
And I remember

01:32:54.300 --> 01:32:56.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
they had a photographer
for "Look" magazine.

01:32:56.466 --> 01:32:58.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
He looks over,
and he yells at me,

01:32:58.333 --> 01:32:59.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
he says, "This is Kansas!

01:32:59.900 --> 01:33:00.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
"This is Kansas!

01:33:00.966 --> 01:33:02.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"(no audio) Kansas!

01:33:02.666 --> 01:33:04.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
He's going
all the (no audio) way!"

01:33:04.333 --> 01:33:08.833 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:33:08.833 --> 01:33:12.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
In spite of his wild popularity,

01:33:12.633 --> 01:33:16.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Bobby knew he was fighting
an uphill battle.

01:33:16.433 --> 01:33:19.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
The nomination was in the hands
of the party bosses--

01:33:19.633 --> 01:33:22.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
mayors, governors,
labor leaders--

01:33:22.066 --> 01:33:25.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
who would control the votes
at the Democratic convention.

01:33:25.666 --> 01:33:28.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"I have to win
through the people,"

01:33:28.133 --> 01:33:30.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Kennedy told a reporter.

01:33:30.000 --> 01:33:33.466 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"Otherwise,
I'm not going to win."

01:33:33.466 --> 01:33:38.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Then, on March 31, 1968,
he was taken by surprise,

01:33:38.366 --> 01:33:40.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
along with
the rest of the nation.

01:33:40.600 --> 01:33:47.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I shall not seek,
and I will not accept,

01:33:47.333 --> 01:33:48.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
the nomination of my party

01:33:48.966 --> 01:33:51.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
for another term
as your president.

01:33:51.433 --> 01:33:54.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
With no warning,

01:33:54.200 --> 01:33:57.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
a physically and emotionally
exhausted president

01:33:57.166 --> 01:34:00.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
had put an end to the contest
with Robert Kennedy

01:34:00.300 --> 01:34:04.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
just 15 days
after it had begun.

01:34:04.200 --> 01:34:05.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"I wonder," Bobby said,

01:34:05.966 --> 01:34:09.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"if he would have done this
if I hadn't come in."

01:34:09.800 --> 01:34:14.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
(people talking indistinctly)

01:34:14.066 --> 01:34:16.300 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Four days later,
Bobby flew to Indianapolis

01:34:16.300 --> 01:34:20.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
for a campaign speech
in a black neighborhood.

01:34:20.066 --> 01:34:22.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
En route,
a reporter had told him

01:34:22.333 --> 01:34:25.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that Martin Luther King
had been murdered.

01:34:25.733 --> 01:34:31.333 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:34:31.333 --> 01:34:33.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
JOHN LEWIS: We were trying
to pull together people

01:34:33.266 --> 01:34:35.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
for a mass rally
for Bobby Kennedy,

01:34:35.800 --> 01:34:38.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
but there were some people
saying that evening

01:34:38.000 --> 01:34:41.000 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
that maybe he shouldn't come.

01:34:41.000 --> 01:34:43.633 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5%
Because maybe
there would be violence.

01:34:43.633 --> 01:34:46.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WALINSKY: The police thought
it was dangerous.

01:34:46.700 --> 01:34:50.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
They didn't want us
to go in there, but he went.

01:34:50.033 --> 01:34:54.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(crowd clamoring)

01:34:54.433 --> 01:34:55.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I scribbled something
on a piece of paper,

01:34:55.900 --> 01:34:57.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
because I knew
he'd want to say something.

01:34:57.266 --> 01:35:00.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
But he had figured out
what he was going to say.

01:35:00.566 --> 01:35:02.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He had written it himself.

01:35:02.300 --> 01:35:04.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
We brought them the news

01:35:04.633 --> 01:35:07.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that Martin Luther King
had been shot.

01:35:08.566 --> 01:35:12.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I have some very sad news
for all of you,

01:35:12.133 --> 01:35:17.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and I think sad news
for all of our fellow citizens

01:35:17.133 --> 01:35:21.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and people who love peace
all over the world,

01:35:21.033 --> 01:35:23.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
and that is
that Martin Luther King

01:35:23.766 --> 01:35:25.566 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
was shot
and was killed tonight...

01:35:25.566 --> 01:35:28.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(crowd screams)

01:35:28.933 --> 01:35:30.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
JOHN LEWIS: Most of the people
hadn't even heard

01:35:30.566 --> 01:35:32.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
that Dr. King had been shot,

01:35:32.233 --> 01:35:33.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
and we were stunned.

01:35:33.866 --> 01:35:36.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
And we all cried.

01:35:36.900 --> 01:35:39.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
But that evening, Robert Kennedy
spoke from his soul.

01:35:39.833 --> 01:35:44.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
For those of you who are black

01:35:44.433 --> 01:35:50.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and are tempted to be filled
with hatred and mistrust,

01:35:50.733 --> 01:35:54.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
of the injustice
of such an act,

01:35:54.533 --> 01:35:57.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
against all white people,

01:35:57.466 --> 01:36:02.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I would only say that
I can also feel in my own heart

01:36:02.066 --> 01:36:04.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
the same kind of feeling.

01:36:04.700 --> 01:36:08.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
I had a member
of my family killed,

01:36:08.100 --> 01:36:11.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
but he was killed
by a white man.

01:36:11.666 --> 01:36:15.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
But we have to make an effort
in the United States,

01:36:15.000 --> 01:36:17.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
we have to make an effort
to understand,

01:36:17.400 --> 01:36:21.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
to go beyond
these rather difficult times.

01:36:21.266 --> 01:36:25.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
The words, they just rang,

01:36:25.433 --> 01:36:28.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
they just chilled your body.

01:36:28.566 --> 01:36:33.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
And he did it not in a loud,

01:36:33.066 --> 01:36:35.666 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
but almost
in a prayerful manner.

01:36:35.666 --> 01:36:39.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
My favorite poet was Aeschylus.

01:36:39.600 --> 01:36:41.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
And he once wrote...

01:36:45.533 --> 01:36:49.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"Even in our sleep,
pain which cannot forget

01:36:49.966 --> 01:36:53.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"falls drop by drop
upon the heart

01:36:53.433 --> 01:36:58.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"until, in our own despair,
against our will,

01:36:58.766 --> 01:37:02.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God."

01:37:05.266 --> 01:37:09.866 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"In our sleep,
pain that cannot forget

01:37:09.866 --> 01:37:14.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"falls drop by drop
upon the heart

01:37:14.033 --> 01:37:17.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"until, in our despair,
against our will,

01:37:17.766 --> 01:37:20.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God."

01:37:22.833 --> 01:37:24.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
NARRATOR: There were riots

01:37:24.333 --> 01:37:28.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
in more than 100 cities across
America after King's death.

01:37:28.300 --> 01:37:34.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
But that night,
there was calm in Indianapolis.

01:37:38.166 --> 01:37:40.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ Senator McCarthy
is the one for me ♪

01:37:40.900 --> 01:37:44.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ And it's smart to vote
for Eugene for the presidency ♪

01:37:44.433 --> 01:37:47.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: There was no way
that Eugene McCarthy

01:37:47.500 --> 01:37:50.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
could inspire crowds
the way Bobby Kennedy did,

01:37:50.966 --> 01:37:52.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
but he didn't seem to care.

01:37:52.900 --> 01:37:54.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Yeah, be ready for us there--
how do you do?

01:37:54.600 --> 01:37:56.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
Cool and aloof,

01:37:56.000 --> 01:37:59.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
he appealed to white middle-
class opponents of the war,

01:37:59.733 --> 01:38:01.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
especially college students,

01:38:01.500 --> 01:38:06.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
scornful of Kennedy's late entry
into the race.

01:38:06.300 --> 01:38:09.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THOMAS: Bobby Kennedy had
a natural affinity for students,

01:38:09.600 --> 01:38:12.500 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
and it pained him deeply
when the best students

01:38:12.500 --> 01:38:15.800 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60%
often signed up
with Gene McCarthy.

01:38:15.800 --> 01:38:19.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NEWFIELD: Robert Kennedy loved
the McCarthy kids.

01:38:19.200 --> 01:38:21.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
He once said to me,

01:38:21.000 --> 01:38:24.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"It drives me crazy that Gene
gets all the A students

01:38:24.433 --> 01:38:26.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and I get all the C students."

01:38:26.066 --> 01:38:28.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(applause)

01:38:28.633 --> 01:38:30.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
On election night,

01:38:30.633 --> 01:38:33.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Indiana voters gave Bobby
the victory he wanted,

01:38:33.666 --> 01:38:36.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
but not the knockout blow
he needed.

01:38:36.466 --> 01:38:39.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
GOODWIN: This was his first
face-to-face primary

01:38:39.266 --> 01:38:40.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
with McCarthy.

01:38:40.366 --> 01:38:42.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
He had to win it,
and he did win it.

01:38:42.733 --> 01:38:45.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
But winning Indiana
was just the first inning

01:38:45.800 --> 01:38:46.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
of a nine-inning game.

01:38:46.966 --> 01:38:49.366 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:38:49.366 --> 01:38:50.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
A week later,

01:38:50.633 --> 01:38:53.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Bobby proved that
he could appeal to farmers,

01:38:53.333 --> 01:38:57.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
winning again,
this time in Nebraska.

01:38:57.166 --> 01:38:59.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Oregon was next.

01:38:59.966 --> 01:39:01.600 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
KENNEDY:
The attention of the nation

01:39:01.600 --> 01:39:03.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
is going to be focused
on the state of Oregon.

01:39:03.333 --> 01:39:04.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
You could very well determine

01:39:04.766 --> 01:39:07.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
who's going to be the next
president of the United States.

01:39:07.366 --> 01:39:09.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
But Oregon Democrats

01:39:09.333 --> 01:39:12.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
were mostly comfortable
white suburban voters.

01:39:12.066 --> 01:39:15.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
They turned away
from Bobby's campaign

01:39:15.933 --> 01:39:20.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
with its focus
on race and poverty.

01:39:20.700 --> 01:39:25.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
For the first time ever,
a Kennedy lost an election.

01:39:25.666 --> 01:39:30.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"Let's face it,"
Bobby told a reporter,

01:39:30.100 --> 01:39:32.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"I appeal best to people
who have problems."

01:39:32.700 --> 01:39:36.333 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
GOODWIN:
He was devastated by that loss.

01:39:36.333 --> 01:39:37.666 align:left position:27.5% line:5% size:62.5%
He said, "If only
we could've moved a ghetto

01:39:37.666 --> 01:39:39.033 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65%
"up here for a day,

01:39:39.033 --> 01:39:39.966 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80%
we could've won this election."

01:39:42.833 --> 01:39:45.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THOMAS: It was not going to be
the victory march

01:39:45.266 --> 01:39:47.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
that he had hoped for.

01:39:47.166 --> 01:39:51.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He had to win California--
he just absolutely had to win.

01:39:51.000 --> 01:39:54.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(cheering)

01:39:54.933 --> 01:39:57.733 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:39:57.733 --> 01:40:01.300 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
California was pure mayhem.

01:40:01.300 --> 01:40:06.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
(people talking excitedly)

01:40:06.033 --> 01:40:11.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
JOHN LEWIS: People treated him
like he was some rock star.

01:40:11.666 --> 01:40:16.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
It was young people,
it was blacks, white, Hispanic--

01:40:16.700 --> 01:40:18.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
just pulling for him.

01:40:18.066 --> 01:40:22.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NEWFIELD: It was
the most emotional adulation

01:40:22.433 --> 01:40:24.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I've ever seen in politics,

01:40:24.033 --> 01:40:28.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
particularly in the black
and Mexican areas.

01:40:28.033 --> 01:40:30.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(cheers and applause)

01:40:30.266 --> 01:40:31.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
The Sunday before the primary,

01:40:31.933 --> 01:40:34.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
he invited me
to ride in his car

01:40:34.800 --> 01:40:38.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
going through Watts
in East L.A.

01:40:38.300 --> 01:40:41.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
He said to me,
"I want you to see what I see."

01:40:41.833 --> 01:40:44.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(clamoring)

01:40:44.166 --> 01:40:47.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
And I see this ecstasy

01:40:47.766 --> 01:40:50.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
in the eyes of blacks
and Mexican-Americans.

01:40:50.833 --> 01:40:54.800 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:41:00.366 --> 01:41:02.033 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
KENNEDY:
If we make the effort,

01:41:02.033 --> 01:41:05.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
if we have that love and
friendship and understanding

01:41:05.566 --> 01:41:07.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
for our fellow citizens,

01:41:07.366 --> 01:41:09.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
we will have a new America.

01:41:09.100 --> 01:41:12.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And you here in Watts,
you here in Los Angeles,

01:41:12.333 --> 01:41:13.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
and in California--

01:41:13.466 --> 01:41:15.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
you will have made it possible,

01:41:15.300 --> 01:41:17.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and I will work with all of you.

01:41:17.166 --> 01:41:18.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Give me your help!

01:41:18.166 --> 01:41:19.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Give me your help!

01:41:19.166 --> 01:41:20.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
 
Thank you.

01:41:20.766 --> 01:41:22.466 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
Not since Abraham Lincoln

01:41:22.466 --> 01:41:24.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
had a white politician

01:41:24.933 --> 01:41:27.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
been so embraced
by people of color.

01:41:27.233 --> 01:41:30.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"These are my people,"
he told an aide.

01:41:30.133 --> 01:41:33.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"These are my people."

01:41:36.866 --> 01:41:39.066 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
On the final day
of the campaign,

01:41:39.066 --> 01:41:40.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Bobby and Ethel rode slowly

01:41:40.700 --> 01:41:43.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
through San Francisco's
Chinatown.

01:41:43.133 --> 01:41:46.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
As usual, there were
no armed bodyguards

01:41:46.766 --> 01:41:48.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
or Secret Service agents.

01:41:48.800 --> 01:41:52.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"You've just got to give
yourself to the people

01:41:52.533 --> 01:41:54.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and to trust them,"
Bobby said,

01:41:54.100 --> 01:41:57.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"and from then on, either luck
is with you or it isn't."

01:42:02.766 --> 01:42:07.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(firecrackers popping)

01:42:07.166 --> 01:42:11.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
What sounded like shots turned
out to be Chinese firecrackers.

01:42:11.500 --> 01:42:15.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Bobby flinched,
then went right on campaigning.

01:42:15.600 --> 01:42:18.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
NEWFIELD: Robert Kennedy
was fearless

01:42:18.500 --> 01:42:20.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
to the cusp of reckless,

01:42:20.700 --> 01:42:22.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and I think there was
some daring

01:42:22.800 --> 01:42:26.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
of death and fate
in... in what he did.

01:42:26.400 --> 01:42:29.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
CROWD (chanting):
RFK! RFK!

01:42:29.500 --> 01:42:32.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
RFK! RFK! RFK!

01:42:32.500 --> 01:42:37.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: On election night,
there was only good news.

01:42:37.100 --> 01:42:39.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Bobby got the victory he needed,

01:42:39.800 --> 01:42:44.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
with blacks and Hispanics voting
for him in overwhelming numbers.

01:42:44.033 --> 01:42:47.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
The 1,500 volunteers
jamming the ballroom

01:42:47.633 --> 01:42:50.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
of the Ambassador Hotel
in Los Angeles

01:42:50.900 --> 01:42:53.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
were ecstatic as they waited
for Bobby to appear.

01:42:53.566 --> 01:42:55.866 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
It's a lot of people there.

01:42:55.866 --> 01:42:57.066 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
There are a lot of people.

01:42:57.066 --> 01:43:00.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(chanting and cheers)

01:43:00.500 --> 01:43:02.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WALINSKY:
And everybody, you know,

01:43:02.233 --> 01:43:04.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
really having a wonderful time

01:43:04.133 --> 01:43:06.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and getting ready
for a terrific party

01:43:06.466 --> 01:43:08.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
that was going to take place
later.

01:43:11.700 --> 01:43:14.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
This was really his win--
hadn't been done by staff,

01:43:14.833 --> 01:43:17.066 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
hadn't been done
by all these people around him.

01:43:17.066 --> 01:43:18.066 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
He did it.

01:43:18.066 --> 01:43:20.066 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NEWFIELD:
He had liberated himself

01:43:20.066 --> 01:43:22.666 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
from leaning
on his brother's myth.

01:43:22.666 --> 01:43:25.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
He had found that inner voice.

01:43:25.600 --> 01:43:27.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
(wild cheers and applause)

01:43:27.433 --> 01:43:29.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
"I feel now for the first time,"

01:43:29.433 --> 01:43:31.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Bobby told an aide,

01:43:31.066 --> 01:43:34.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"that I've shaken off the shadow
of my brother."

01:43:34.433 --> 01:43:39.066 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:43:39.066 --> 01:43:41.400 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
KENNEDY:
Thank you very much.

01:43:41.400 --> 01:43:43.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
JOHN LEWIS:
We watched him speaking

01:43:43.033 --> 01:43:45.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
from the ballroom
of the Ambassador Hotel,

01:43:45.633 --> 01:43:48.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and we all was feeling
very, very good.

01:43:48.466 --> 01:43:50.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
What I think is quite clear

01:43:50.033 --> 01:43:54.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
is... is that we can work
together, in the last analysis,

01:43:54.300 --> 01:43:56.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and that what has been going on
within the United States

01:43:56.500 --> 01:43:58.966 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
over the period
of the last three years--

01:43:58.966 --> 01:44:00.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
the divisions, the violence,

01:44:00.966 --> 01:44:03.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
the disenchantment
with our society,

01:44:03.766 --> 01:44:05.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
the divisions, whether it's
between blacks and whites,

01:44:05.733 --> 01:44:07.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
between the poor
and the more affluent,

01:44:07.800 --> 01:44:10.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
or between age groups
or on the war in Vietnam,

01:44:10.500 --> 01:44:11.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that we can start
to work together.

01:44:11.966 --> 01:44:14.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
We are a great country
and a selfish country

01:44:14.400 --> 01:44:15.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
and a compassionate country,

01:44:15.833 --> 01:44:18.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and I intend to make that
my basis for running

01:44:18.600 --> 01:44:20.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
over the period
of the next few months.

01:44:20.333 --> 01:44:23.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(cheers and applause)

01:44:23.800 --> 01:44:25.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
So, uh...

01:44:25.033 --> 01:44:27.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
my thanks to all of you,

01:44:27.133 --> 01:44:29.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and now it's on to Chicago,
and let's win there.

01:44:29.233 --> 01:44:30.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Thank you very much.

01:44:30.133 --> 01:44:31.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(cheers and applause)

01:44:38.300 --> 01:44:42.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
CROWD (chanting):
RFK! RFK! RFK!

01:44:42.100 --> 01:44:46.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
(chanting continues)

01:44:48.600 --> 01:44:52.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NEWFIELD: I left the suite
on the fifth floor

01:44:52.366 --> 01:44:54.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
during RFK's acceptance speech

01:44:54.566 --> 01:45:00.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and got into the ballroom just
as he was leaving the podium.

01:45:00.366 --> 01:45:03.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And he goes into...
into the kitchen area,

01:45:03.766 --> 01:45:11.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and then I hear the...
this moan, this cry, screams.

01:45:11.033 --> 01:45:14.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(murmuring)

01:45:14.566 --> 01:45:15.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
(screaming)

01:45:19.133 --> 01:45:22.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NARRATOR: As Bobby had reached
out to shake the hands

01:45:22.066 --> 01:45:24.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
of the men and women
who worked in the kitchen,

01:45:24.833 --> 01:45:32.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
24-year-old Sirhan Sirhan
fired a bullet into his brain.

01:45:32.133 --> 01:45:36.433 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
♪ ♪

01:45:39.833 --> 01:45:42.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NEWFIELD:
All delirium broke loose,

01:45:42.433 --> 01:45:44.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
and I realized
that he had been shot.

01:45:44.900 --> 01:45:47.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
And the people just went nuts.

01:45:51.000 --> 01:45:56.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I saw people punch the walls,

01:45:56.333 --> 01:45:58.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
lie on the ground and weep.

01:45:58.566 --> 01:46:02.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
John Lewis and I just hugged
each other and sobbed.

01:46:02.400 --> 01:46:06.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Dr. King, two months earlier,
and now Robert Kennedy.

01:46:06.733 --> 01:46:07.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
It was just too much.

01:46:12.500 --> 01:46:17.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NARRATOR:
On June 6, 1968, Bobby died.

01:46:20.633 --> 01:46:24.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Like his brother
less than five years before,

01:46:24.233 --> 01:46:28.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Robert Kennedy passed on
into legend.

01:46:36.366 --> 01:46:39.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Two days after Bobby's death,

01:46:39.066 --> 01:46:43.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
his body was carried to
Washington's Arlington Cemetery

01:46:43.200 --> 01:46:46.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
accompanied by family
and friends.

01:46:46.500 --> 01:46:49.300 align:left position:45% line:5% size:45%
♪ ♪

01:46:49.300 --> 01:46:52.500 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
SEIGENTHALER: It was like...

01:46:52.500 --> 01:46:55.366 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
it was like an Irish wake.

01:46:55.366 --> 01:46:57.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Everybody was in pain.

01:46:57.600 --> 01:47:01.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Everybody was numb, in shock.

01:47:01.933 --> 01:47:06.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
Just one...

01:47:06.766 --> 01:47:08.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Just one long cortege
of grief,

01:47:08.933 --> 01:47:10.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
hour after hour after hour.

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01:47:19.833 --> 01:47:22.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
JOHN LEWIS:
And all along the way,

01:47:22.200 --> 01:47:24.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
you saw these unbelievable
crowds carrying signs

01:47:24.566 --> 01:47:26.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
saying, "We love you, Bobby,"
"Good-bye, Bobby."

01:47:36.233 --> 01:47:39.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
EDELMAN: You saw white faces
and black faces and Latino

01:47:39.600 --> 01:47:43.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and... and all the diversity
of America.

01:47:43.000 --> 01:47:45.066 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
It was all there
on the side of the tracks

01:47:45.066 --> 01:47:46.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
as the train went back
to Washington.

01:47:55.700 --> 01:47:57.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
KATZENBACH:
It was quite remarkable, really,

01:47:57.133 --> 01:48:01.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
what Bobby Kennedy suddenly
meant to the American people.

01:48:01.600 --> 01:48:03.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And I say "suddenly"
because it... it had happened

01:48:03.800 --> 01:48:06.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
in just a couple of years,
really.

01:48:06.633 --> 01:48:08.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I mean, it would've
been laughable

01:48:08.200 --> 01:48:13.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to think of Bobby Kennedy as a
presidential candidate in 1961,

01:48:13.533 --> 01:48:16.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and it certainly wasn't
laughable in 1968.

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01:48:22.700 --> 01:48:26.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
JOHN LEWIS: He had the capacity
to open up himself.

01:48:26.633 --> 01:48:29.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
We saw him grow.

01:48:29.300 --> 01:48:30.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
We saw him change.

01:48:38.500 --> 01:48:41.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NEWFIELD:
He was 42 when he was killed.

01:48:41.933 --> 01:48:43.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
We'll never know,

01:48:43.133 --> 01:48:45.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
would he really have gotten us
out of Vietnam?

01:48:45.900 --> 01:48:50.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Would he have really dealt
with poverty and racism?

01:48:50.300 --> 01:48:51.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
But he was cheated
out of his chance

01:48:51.900 --> 01:48:55.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
to... to test his ideas
and his values.

01:48:57.933 --> 01:48:59.300 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WALINSKY:
It seems to me

01:48:59.300 --> 01:49:03.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that what we're doing
when we mourn Robert Kennedy

01:49:03.733 --> 01:49:08.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
is mourning...

01:49:08.366 --> 01:49:11.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
our own lost possibilities.

01:49:11.600 --> 01:49:19.000 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
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01:49:24.833 --> 01:49:27.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
NARRATOR: 30 yards
from his brother's grave,

01:49:27.966 --> 01:49:31.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Robert Kennedy was laid to rest.

01:49:38.233 --> 01:49:42.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Carved on the marble gravestone
are the words from Aeschylus

01:49:42.466 --> 01:49:46.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
that he could recite
from memory:

01:49:46.500 --> 01:49:50.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
"He who learns must suffer.

01:49:50.200 --> 01:49:54.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"And even in our sleep,
pain that cannot forget

01:49:54.166 --> 01:49:58.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"falls drop by drop
upon the heart,

01:49:58.100 --> 01:50:02.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"and in our own despair,
against our will,

01:50:02.833 --> 01:50:11.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
comes wisdom to us
by the awful grace of God."

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