40th Anniversary of RFK’s Death
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Life photographer Bill Eppridge followed Robert F. Kennedy from his early campaign days to his untimely death. His new book is A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties; he joins us to help commemorate the 40th anniversary of Bobby Kennedy’s assassination.
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Bill Eppridge
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Comments [4]
I saw Bobby kennedy in Monterey Park, CA on May 30, 1968. I came withing about 3 inches of touching him when the car was turning from Garfield Ave. on to Riggin Ave. I would love to know if the author was taking pictures at that moment? I just finished Thurston Clarke's book on the campaign. What a tragedy. I am going to purchase Mr. Eppridge's book.
What a loss to all of us! May he rest in peace.
He had his Irish poetry about him - he let his feelings show.
My name is Rita Williams-Garcia. I write for teens. I remember my father, who had just returned from Viet Nam, driving our family out to Monterey Peninsula Airport to hear Bobby Kennedy. At the end of Bobby's speech my father ran after Kennedy and the next thing I knew I was taking a picture with RFK. A man with a lot of hair. My father and sister insist Kennedy picked me up, but at eleven, I was hardly a small child. So far I've seen only one photo with RFK and a young black girl in a green dress, but that wasn't me. What I would give to find that snapshot.
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