robert kennedy's fate as a presidential candidate now hangs on the outcome of the california primaries>> bobby kennedy, having lost oregon, knew he had to win california, and that would be his ticket to the convention. >> kennedy is back among his people, and after the satisfied prosperity of oregon, which failed to respond to kennedy's approach, the senator is again turned on. >> he was a rock star. it gave him a kind of courage and power to keep going. >> part of our job, everybody had to wrap your arms around his legs so he wouldn't get pulled from the car by his admirers. >> he campaigns so hard that his -- his hand is swollen. he loses his voice. >> we're here in los angeles, and california, you have made it possible, and i will work with all of you. give me your help, give me your hand. thank you. ♪ >> abc news presents "race to the white house," complete coverage of the presidential election year 1968. tonight, the california primary, coverage of today's presidential primary in the golden state. >> an hour and a half after the polls have closed in california, the biggest primary

. ♪ time has come today >> senator robert francis kennedy was 42 years old. >> the enemy is no longer victory. ♪ the rules have changed today >> demonstrate against the war in vietnam. ♪ have no place to stay >> a number of men killed last week in vietnam was the highest this summer. >> they are running an all-white political party in 1968. ♪ my tears have come and gone >> we all need george c. wallace for our president of the united states. >> vote republican in november. >> the peace groups are demanding permission to march on convention hall. >> these cops here are tough. they'd kill you with a smile. >> as long as i'm mayor of this town, there will be law and order in chicago. >> this is the moment of truth for the democratic party. ♪ time >>> tuesday night, i spent my evening at senator kennedy's campaign headquarters to celebrate his victory in california. tuesday night, i was in ecstasy with joy. wednesday morning, sorrow. and this morning, utter despair because now i'm lost. i'm desperate. and i don't know where we're going from here. >> by the early summer of 1968, there was

in 1984, after law school, robert kennedy jr.a watchdog organization started by fishermen to monitor pollution in the new york hudson river. today, fish and people are swimming again in the hudson. time magazine named kennedy a hero for the planet because of his work on behalf of the hudson river. can lawyers use legal action to stop climate change and other environmental damage? it has been done before. robert kennedy knows howow. welcome, to "kamp solutions." (light music)

and that's what we robert f. kennedy rights have been doing for 52 years and we'll continue to do that. >> i needed to hear that. especially after this last week. i want to play part of another speech from your father. that probably one of the best american speeches of all time. there's some sadness obviously in that speech. it's 1968. speaking to a black crowd 234 indianapolis and had to inform many of them martin luther king, jr. has been assassinated and said this. >> we can do well in this country. we will have difficult times. we have had difficult times in the past. we will have difficult times in the future. it is not the end of violence. it is not the end of lawlessness and disorder. the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in in country want to live together. want to improve the quality of our life. and want justice for all human beings. that abide in the land. >> gosh. we really need that so much today. the level of empathy and compassion. as you know riots swept the country from

hubert humphrey's and el paso were terry allen is from, robert kennedy and richard nixon both happen o be in milwaukee on that very day, kennedy was can pairing and drink and painting for nelson who is running for reelection wisconsin then but he was also on the verge of thinking about running for president himself. as to how this compared to kent state, madison was one of the first major protest. they were protest almost every semester from then on for four years in madison. and it was within a year of that the national guard was called the campus. the national guard was not there for this protest. and as we all know the national guard was at kent state and that unfolded it a more tragic we were student was killed. at wisconsin was kind of the other book ended that it's a horrible incident in august of 1970 where some people blew up a building that housed the army math research center. and a physicist a young man was working in the middle of the night was killed in that event. which was one of the other tragedies of that. >> host: glenn from kentucky you are on with david maraniss. >

kennedy. she is the daughter of robert f. kennedy.i, it's so good to see you. >> so great to be with you, always, don. >> thank you. you know, we hear those words from your dad's last speech. and his message, i mean, it still rings true today. maybe now more than ever. >> well, you know, the thing he -- he talked about institutional violence and, especially, in cleveland. the night after martin luther king died, he talked about the antiblack violence that has been in this country, now, for 401 years. and the need to stop those stugzs stug institutions of violence and that's what we need to focus on today. we need to defund place. we need to redirect those funds to community-based programs, housing, education, and healthcare, and mental healthcare. we need to decarcerate. we need to end cash bail. there is so much that needs to be done in this country to stop this anti-black violence that's been here since the start. >> you know, i saw kamal bell. something so profound. he was just on my show and he talked about how we are living in th

she was the second youngest of nine siblings, who also included us attorney general robert kennedy and at her home in new york on wednesday. an art detective in the netherlands says he has ‘proof of life' photos of a stolen van gogh painting. the 1884 work ‘spring garden' went missing after a break—in at a museum near amsterdam in late march. 0ne photo shows the missing masterpiece lying next to a newspaper, and another features a label from the back of the painting. the art detective, arthur brand, has not explained how he received the images. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: britain's iconic wartime singer dame vera lynn — known as the forces' sweetheart — has died. there was a bomb in the city centre. a code word known to be one used by the ira was given. army bomb experts were examining a suspect van when there was a huge explosion. the south african parliament has destroyed the foundation of apartheid by abolishing the population registration act, which for 40 years, forcibly classified each citizen according to race. just a day old, and the royal baby is tonight sleeping

-- he's still in the overall -- >> reporter: cuomo was married for 15 years to carrie kennedy, the daughter of robert f. kennedy, and until last year was in a long relationship withauth but he's unattached now. >> you are a bachelor. you've got a nice house here. having a moment. and you can't do a thing with it. is your social life in a phase one relationship possibly? is that an unfortunate set of circumstances? >> well, i think -- >> and i know you're a bachelor. i know you've talked about being available. >> yeah. the house isn't mine. sort of like a rental. i will move out one day. i can reopen the economy, but dating, that's a whole different thing beyond my control. >> pity, isn't it? i find it really hard to accept after decades in government you don't have a political agenda in your future that's on the back of your mind. four years from now either donald trump will not run for re-election or joe biden will be 82 and probably there will be a search for a democratic nominee, and i cannot believe that andrew cuomo won't be on that stage. >> joe biden is going to be the president of the united

the attorney general is kennedy's brother, robert f. kennedy, who hates johnson from the days they were in the senate. kennedy is a staffer and johnson as a senator. and robert f. kennedy is constantly trying to demean lyndon johnson and weaken his role and robert. >>> ken was the most pardon person in the ken. then you have the tragic circumstance where kennedy is assassinates and the vice president is elevated to the presidency, and now rfk is working for a president who hates him and there's a big screaming fight they have in the oval office shortly after johnson is inaugurated right of the first cabinet meeting and they don't talk for two months after that. i'm sure everybody has a relative they haven't talked to for two months but rfk was the sitting attorney general at the time he wasn't talking to the president. that's unusual. sometimes you have presidents giving certain powers to a vice president that they didn't have in one administration and don't in another and it's interesting the book i pound out that hubert humphrey what l

been frozen for your nap i'm just not sure that much can change in the next 6 months or 8 months robert kennedy always good to get your thoughts thank you for talking to al jazeera thank you thanks for having me when i spoke with rob mcbride in peshawar that's on the south korean side of the border. i think generally there is a feeling of disappointment and how this all seems to be unraveling and unraveling so quickly i think also among a number of people there will be concern about just how bad this war of words will get out but also i think generally in south korea there is a feeling of we have been here before people here are very philosophical about these kind of cycles of crisis and then reconciliation they've been through this kind of thing before what's different this time possibly is that there was really a feeling of a potentially that this was going to lead to some kind of breakthrough that we haven't seen in the past and that will obviously leave many people here disappointed where we are now this is it's about as close as you can get in south korea to the d.m.z. it's another few kil

robert kennedy and john f. nt and united states allow the wiretapping of martin luther king and they knew those wiretaps were -- none of the information was being released by the then director of the fbi dared to kerr hoover, should we erase them from history? fdr refused to integrate the united states military and incarcerated japanese americans during world war ii. should we erase him from history? that is one thing going on, let's judge people in the past by our standards today, and if we find the falling short, race them. the other thing we are finding is an attempt to rewrite history. i saw a journalist the other day say abraham lincoln had nothing to do with ending slavery. it was done by thus slaves themselves. he was president of the united states in a brutal civil war, releasing the emancipation proclamation in order to free the. are we going to redo this to our country and our history? "the new york times" for example is leading a project called the 16-19 project which has been criticized by some of th

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robert kennedy announced the death.front of a black audience on a flat bed truck he threw away prepared marks and delivered one of the greatest political speeches in 1920. here's part of it. >> you can be filled with bitterness and hatred. and a desire for revenge. we can move in that direction as a country. and greater polarization. black people among black and white among white. filled with hatred towards one another. or make an interest at martin luther king, jr. did. to understand and comprehend and replace that violence. that stain of bloodshed that is spread across the land. with an effort to understand. compassion. and lv. and love. >> just a few hours ago the 45th u.s. president delivered his fist remarks on camera about the protest and racial tension tearing the country apart. >> as we speak i am dispatching thousands and thousands of hefly armed soldiers. military personnel. and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism. assaults, and the destruction of property. we are putting everybody

and robert kennedy gripped the country for weeks. like trump he promised above all security. >> history does not repeat itself but it often rhymes. there is a lot of rhyming between 1968 and 2020 . >> reporter: his tough talk was countered by ronald reagan. >> ronald reagan was more resolute probably. he was also calmer in his approach than richard nixon. and ronald reagan reached out to protesters and to the college campuses. >> nixon's way worked at least at the poles. some believe the same tough top, talk, trump offers quote not hope and unity kennedy but fear and division like george wallace while hoping to reap the same political reward is richard m nixon. >> trumpets talking about law and order and law and order for everybody. >> his current mission is slapping federal charges on those not protesting but writing. >>> national guard troops are on duty and dozens of states. 30,000 national guard troops have been deployed to 31 states. the defense department has moved about 1600 active-duty troops the basis near the u.s. capitol.

robert kennedy was attorney general and sent in the national guard and of course he stepped out the way, she entered the school and graduated. from stories with the sister, she did not have any difficult times when she was there. and i must say, she was not the first african-american to attend school there, but vivian was the first african-american to raduate. so when she graduated, nobody in alabama would provide her job. o ultimately, she gets a job with the department of justice and washington, d.c. the school did ask her to come back to do the commencement address, and she did to make a long story short, the theme of her commencement address was you must always be prepared because you never know what door you may have to walk through. and that is the story of ms. vivian malone jones, who opened a lot of doors. the city made this honorary vivian malone jones way as a complementary to the historical marker in place in front of where the homestead used to be. h roger williams grew up in louisiana on a sugar lantation. he wants to be a pharmacist. he goes to pharmacy school, comes to mo

in 1968 we had the assassinations of martin luther king and robert kennedy, and these came after the tet offensive in vietnam first raised the prospect we were losing that war. we had a hong kong flu outbreak that year as well. it was a terrible year for the united states with demonstrations constant. we had the riots in the summer. the s&p 500 went up for the year and so did the dow, significantly. they bottomed in march after the king assassination, and then for the rest of the year they rose. as one person pointed today, markets are not about the happiness of people and markets are not about the overall fundamentals of the economy. markets are about what kind of profits a company makes. if people think companies will make profits, the market will go up no matter what is happening around the edges. david: mike, thank you so much for being with us. that is michael mckee, rg economics and policy correspondent. coming up, we will talk with the congresswoman pepper over the ohio -- the congresswoman pepper spray over the weekend in ohio. this is "balance of power" on bloomberg televisi

today is the anniversary of robert kennedy. the anniversary of his death. he was trying to tell us back then we have to hear the pain. a few weeks before now martin luther king said we have to address racism and mill tarrism and poverty. we did not listen, ana, but we better listen this time. that is what all this diversity is saying to us in the street. this is not a parade. it's a powerful moment with possibility for transformation if we hear the mourns and the tears of the people. >> a very somber moment we're looking at live in north carolina. a memorial service for george floyd, the second of three that will happen within a six day span. he was born in north carolina and i know you live there. if you could say something to the family right now, what would it be? >> well, i am in north carolina. i'm not there today because i have an immune deficiency in the midst of covid. what i will say to the family is that when george said i can't breathe, it touched something in all of us. that watch how much of our government and state is used to suffocate and cru

she was the second youngest of nine siblings, who also included us attorney general robert kennedy andigh levels of violent crime, amongst the worst in the world. more than 2,700 women were killed last year. and the government says cases have increased drastically under the coronavirus lockdown. 0ur south africa reporter, pumza fihlani looks at what is being done to tackle this. they are supposed to be under lockdown but they have taken their morning to the streets. hundreds sing, only you lord know what will become of me in this painful world. this woman was eight months pregnant when she was found stabbed, hanging from a tree. her death a reminder of the dangers faced by women here. ijust reminder of the dangers faced by women here. i just turned andi by women here. i just turned and i felt somebody was hitting me. before the lockdown started, we met a woman who had been attacked the previous day. i was ashamed to go home even because i didn't ask for it was blue didn't ask for it and no—one deserves that so i want to know, he kept asking... she told us she was worried no—one would b

to 1968 and the violence that we saw in the united states against martin luther king and then robert kennedya. riots. and now something that's spread to better than 40 cities. wall street has a tendency, natalie, to kind of park this in a different category because they don't think it will be long lasting like the occupy wall street movement, for example. as a result they're looking at $3 trillion of the stimulus package and saying what's it going to look like in 2021 for the global economy and particularly the united states? can you start seeing rehiring of the 40 million that you talked about filing jobless claims right now? and most are betting, and i think this may be a mistake, that we'll see a v-shaped recovery, a contraction of 7% to 9% of the major industrialized economies and a similar recovery, not a complete recovery but a 6% to 7% recovery next year. that's a tall order right now. but that's the theme because we're at a three-month high on wall street and in asian markets as well. >> john defterios in abu dhabi, always thank you, john. >> and yes, we're still in the midst of a pa

robert kennedy was attorney general and he stepped out of the way. she entered the school and graduated. difficultt have any times while she was there. she was not the first african-american to attend school there but vivienne was the first african-american to was the firstvian african-american to graduate. when she graduated, no one would offer her a job. ultimately she got a job with the department in washington dc. the school did ask her to come back to do the commencement address and she did. to make a long story short, the theme of her commencement address was you must always be prepared to because you never know what door you may have to walk through. the story of miss vivian malone jones, who opened a lot of doors. the city made this honorary vivian malone will -- vivian in honor of the historical marker in placed in front of where their home used to be. eric: mr. williams grew up in louisiana on a sugar plantation. he wanted to be a pharmacist, so he came to mobile and opened a drugstore right here on dawson street. he wants to be a physician

protesters killed, and of course, most notably, in 1968, the assassination of martin luther king and robert kennedyior after he had won the democratic nomination. it was a truly cataclysmic year with long-term consequences. what else might happen as a result of protests -- they are not likely to move markets in the short term. you see the chinese are trolling the united states, suggesting that the u.s. loves protests if they are happening in hong kong, not so much if they are in the streets of new york city. i think there are probably also more talent risks around the election outcome. guy: let's talk a little bit about what is behind all of this. clearly, the spark was a race-related event, and that has been a major part of this. is it possible to tease out whether or not there is a, kind of, covid, economic effect to of this, and if there is, the you expect that element to get bigger and potentially spark further riots as it becomes clear that income inequality is only likely to grow, not diminish as a result of the covid crisis? well we don't have a lot of cases to try to get at that point quant

correct. 1968 and the tet offensive have happened and martin luther king d d been assassinated and robert kennedy had been assassinated and what he is doing in that picture what we know we won't know all of it and we don't know what is on his mind but he's listening to as tape recording from his son-in-law who then went on to be the governor of virginia and then senator from virginia and heo was a marine lieutenant in vietnam sending audiocassettes to his a father in what was happening in vietnam where johnson wanted a battlefield perspective and he was worried she was not getting a straight story from his general and so he was listening to the tape in that picture and that is the background for that picture and you can't see that the tape recorder on the cover because the book would have been too long. but it is the kind of agony or conjures the agony and weight of the office then when you open the book there's a picture of president johnson andnd republin leader in the senate in which johnson is much more assertive in the balls on his feet engaging in what is the johnson treatment in negotiatio

jail, police established a temporary holding facility at robert f. kennedy stadium.frontation, some of the prisoners attempted to escape. others mutilated a large tarp covering the field. [applause] when it was apparent that bogged down court procedures would cause the detention of many prisoners overnight, they were transferred to the washington coliseum, a large auditorium nearby. by nightfall, all demonstrators were indoors. blankets were secured by the military, and more than enough food to take care of the prisoners' needs. reaction of some prisoners was to destroy the sanitary facility. tear pup -- tear up the blankets and throw the food on the floor. many refused to be properly booked and identified. on tuesday, with most of their fellow demonstrators under arrest, the remaining mayday activists deployed hit and run tactics throughout the morning. ♪ about noon, police prepared for the planned march on the justice department. indicate 800mates protesters would take part. over 3000 joined by others who have been released by the court. police warned demonstrators

it all, or you think about bill clinton, what happened after oklahoma city, or you think about robert kennedy on the top of a car with a bullhorn the night of martin luther king's assassination, that's what we are missing today. it's too much dividing and speaking to the base and it's -- i don't know what he's going to say. what is he going to say? question is what is he going to do? we do need standards. >> i actually -- >> we have them in ohio. >> i absolutely hear you. i challenge you on one bit. i think a lot of people would take a leader with no compassion if they just got it right. i mean, by that i only mean that get it right on charlottesville. you don't need compassion to get that right. you need a brain. wearing masks and being a leader in terms of showing people what you need to do to save lives and be there for your brother and your neighbor in the middle of a pandemic. when they're completely denying that masks are important. look at the picture put out and deleted by mike pence at campaign headquarters. i think a lot of people would even say, you know what? i'll take something s

was when george wallace stood in the door and said segregation today, tomorrow, and forever, robert kennedy attorney general sent in the national guard and stepped out of the way and she entered the school and graduated. from stories with the sisters she did not have any difficult times while she was there. she was not the first african-american to attend school there. vivienne was the first african-american to graduate. so when she graduated, no one in alabama would provide her a job. this upset they had gone to the school. ultimately she gets a job with the department in washington, d.c., and the school did ask her to come back to do the commencement address and she did. and to make a long story short the theme of her commencement address was that you must always be prepared because you never know what door you may have to walk through. and that's the story of miss vivienne malone jones who opened a lot of doors. the city made this honorary vivienne malone jones way as a complimentary to the historical marker being placed in front of where their homestead used to be. dr. h. rogers william

is it is a 1968, and the tet offensive had happened, martin luther king had been assassinated, robert kennedy had been assassinated. but what he is doing in that picture, what we know -- we don't know all of it, and we do not know what is on his mind, but he is listening to a tape recording from chuck rob, his son-in-law, who on to be governor charles rob, and he was a marine lieutenant in vietnam sending back audiocassettes to his father-in-law about what was happening in vietnam, and johnson wanted kind of the battlefield perspective. he was worried he was not getting this great story from his general, so he was listening to the tape in that picture, and so that is the background for that picture. you cannot see the tape recorder on the cover, because the book would have been too long, but it is the kind of agony, conjures the agony and weight of the office. when you open the book, there is a picture of president johnson and edward dirksen, the bubble can later in the senate, in which johnson is much more assertive, kind of on the balls of his seat, what is called the johnson treatment, wit

then you had the real coup de grace, which was assassinations, martin luther king followed by robert kennedyand i think that left a lot of americans -- you know, i was in grade school at the time, but i remember it very well, people felt, the wheels have come off the cart, we've lost control and that's what really produces, i think, a change in the political system and that's kind of what it feels like now you have a coronavirus shocked followed by depression-like economic numbers, followed now by unrest across the country and it's the one after another after another aspect that i thought made this feel like that >> and then you pointed to 1979, when, of course, the hostages were taken in iran and there was a great wellspring of feeling, that whole situation had been mismanaged it was being handled weakly. and then in the 1980 election, carter was kicked out and in came ronald reagan one difference that i detect now, jerry, from 1968, and even from 1979, is the dysfunctionalty of congress. back then, there was a center in american politics. right now, it doesn't feel like there's much of a c

you know, when martin luther king was killed robert kennedy stood up and talked about seeking justice, you know, and bringing the tension down within the country. this president doesn't understand any of that. he probably hasn't read any of that, knows no history, and doesn't understand the job of the president to truly speak to the values of the nation. >> so you said on that call he said that you all needed to dominate the protesters. that's what he said, and fits with what he just said here. but i just want to be clear. when he says every governor should deploy the national guard in full, that's what he said in the rose garden. that's what he wants you to do. i guess the first question is do you plan to do that, governor? >> well, we have called out the national guard to be a support mechanism for our local law enforcement, and they're doing that, frankly, and they're doing a good job. we also have our state police assisting local law enforcement all across the state wherever they have requested it. so the president just doesn't know what he's talking about, and when he says in eve

the assassination of robert f kennedy. american soldiers dying every day in vietnam. massive protest against that war. you go back to the great depression and look at the bonus army of world war i veterans that literally occupied the city of washington and had to be dispersed by military troops, with many people being entered -- injured and killed. go back to the civil war period. there have been many times in our history where we have been more divided than this. what we need to do, i think is two things. number one we need to pray. we need to intercede for the president and all of our leaders. these people are being stretched to the very limit right now. they have just come through a pandemic when many of them were working 20 hour days and now they are still in the pandemic in dealing with this, and incredible law enforcement challenge and riots in the streets and destruction of property, people being injured, police being shot at. them and foray for leadership at this time. i think the other thing we need policys support sound and actions that will restore domestic

robert kennedy gives the remarkable talk about dr. king's death in indianapolis. then america burned. so i think we're closer to that than at any time since then. >> wow. while images of police using force to suppress crowds protesting the death of george floyd filled social media over the weekend, in some cities, police joined demonstrators in a show of solidarity. in flint, michigan, county sheriff chris swanson joined protesters' calls to walk with us, marching down miller road in flint township. santa cruz, california, police chief mills took a knee with protesters, with the department tweeting that it was in memory of george floyd, and bringing attention to police violence against black people. two kansas city, missouri, police officers were photographed holding up a sign that reads, "end police brutality." in fargo, north dakota, an officer held hands with protest organizers while holding a sign that says, "we are one human race." officers in ferguson, missouri, participated in a 9:30 kneel in floyd's memory, while cheers erupted from the crowd. that is one

baldwin was when he debated robert kennedy at oxford.t was a wonderful debate, laying out some of the fallacies of the system in which we live and work. and also, your most recent ofsertation or explanation the economy of the situation we are dealing with. you left out the fact that giving poor people's tax dollars to rich people, black and right, which i think is appalling. , in the clinical side, as dr. king spoke about sick white brothers, when is the clinical side going to be opened up to when we can do with -- what is it in the heart structure that a person needs to be as vicious and as greedy, or what is coming to mind about the woman'sn in 1919 when a husband was lynched, and she went to the sheriff to complain, and he turned her over to the same wench mob and they hung her upside down and cut a baby -- the same lynch mob and they hung her upside down a cut a baby out of her belly. when are we going to get into the viciousness of the heart and the mind of individuals who feel that they can be that inhumane but at the same time lif

i'm a final question robert kennedy famously said in $160.00 g.d.p. this measuring of economic growth quote does not include the beauty of our poetry of the strength of our marriages it measures neither our wisdom or a learning other our compassion nor our devotion to our country it measures everything in short except that which makes life worthwhile to do with well yes and to some degree because simon couldn't that's when he came up with the g.d.p. statistics and he had a brilliant thing he said the truth of the matter is that there are 4 categories of countries there underdeveloped developed japan and argentina. nobody knows why japan grows and why argentina doesn't and i think that really is emblematic of the field of economics we're learning we're evolving we're innovating and a lot of what has been said here are is food for thought as things that people are trying to reengineer to improve on and i would not suggest that we should throw out all the knowledge and all the impact that was mentioned earlier all the benefits and the significant improve

congressman kennedy, it is really great that we have you here and of course robert f. edy, the attorney general at the time was one of the people who inspired the idea to do this. what can and should be done to change this? the idea that this many decades later, we are having the same conversation about working poor. what can be done about it? >> everything, joy. everything needs to be done. and i am honored to be here with two workers here. i think a piece to this is understanding not only, yes, clearly, mcdonald's and franchises have to provide paid sick time and ppe and sanitizing the stores and all the rest of it. that should happen. but let's also understand just as they articulated, you are getting paid 30 cents over minimum wage and can't afford a roof over your head, that is a choice of the government not to raise the minimum wage. when you are talking about paid sick leave, that's a choice our government not to require sick leave. that's a choice of our government to allow jobs that do not provide enough resources for as parent to raise a family. when we talk a

[laughter] >> why do you believe there is animosity between lyndon johnson and robert kennedy? itical x personalities, personal problems? have you considered, i left your book with kennedy, have you considered writing a book about president kennedy? >> apathy animosity between kennedy was partly personal and partly political. they hated each other somehow. i think that was visceral. they come up against somebody and you can't stand them. it is exacerbated by the fact that when johnson was made vice president, he had been such a pal for majority leader and he felt his left out of the loop on all decisions that kennedy was making. he didn't want to blame kennedy, he liked kennedy. the two of them got along fairly well. kennedy liked listening to johnson's stories, but then when he wasn't getting invited to meetings or decisions, he always blamed bobby. he thought bobby was keeping them out of the meetings. then when he became president, i think bobby felt somehow johnson was upstaging his brother. he become an important president and therefore, some house is brother's history coul

martin luther king and later on robert kennedy, so i grant those differences but it is going to lead upheaval and this fear that, god forbid, there should be another controversial incident like tragedy around the floyd case. all bets are off. are you worried for the future of this country? >> i have been worried for the future of this country for some time. in actuality i'm a little bit more optimistic than i have been in times past. there will always be those george floyd incidents, those ahmaud arbery incidents on and on. i don't think any legislation or policy can totally regulate human behavior. people because of mental health reasons or because they go off the rails will go off the rails and i think the black community and american community at large understands that. what is at war here is how do we handle it when it happens? no one can control human behavior. people are going to do what they're going to do but the reason people have filled the streets is the way these cases are being handled. that is what we can control. at that is what we have to focus on. there will be situa

and robert f. kennedy gripped the country for weeks.ixon promised above all security. >> as my client said history does not repeat itself but there are rhymes and there is rhyming between 1968 and 2020. >> craig shirley said nixon's tough talk was countered by then governor of california ronald reagan. >> wreck and was more resolute probably, but he was also calmer in his approach to richard nixon. he was -- reagan reached out to protesters into the college campuses and sat down and talk to them. >> but nixon his way worked at the polls. the tough talk is not a reelection ticket for trumped. washington, one -- columnist says he offers not a hope and unity like bobby kennedy but fear and division like george wallace. while hoping to read the political reward as nixon but surely disagrees. >> trump is talking about law and order and law in order for everybody, not just for one segment of society. here at the department of justice attorney general bill barr is looking to restore law and order. slapping federal charges on those not protesti

why because my first consciousness of guns and gun control was 1968 with the assassination of robert f. kennedy and congress passing the most sweeping gun legislation, at least of that era. did that play any part of it? and what were the factors that led the nra to pivot on the issue of gun controls? >> well, you're absolutely right to talk about the gun control act of 1968 which was the next major federal gun law passed after the federal laws of the 1930s. and the law requires various kinds of licensing for gun dealers, ban the importation of certain kinds of cheap firearms that were associated with urban youth crime and whatnot. that law really sparked -- and other laws of that era -- really sparked a movement of people who were really opposed to growing gun control. and the nra, the head of the nra in the 1970s, maxwell rich who endorsed the gun control act, not all of its provisions but endorsed the act overall in the signature publication. maxwell rich devised a plan. he said i want to retreat from political activity, move from washington and move to colorado springs where we can focus on

he was awarded the 1988 robert f. kennedy award book for race crime and the law.hank you so much for being here. you asked the question in a dear colleague letter. is it essential to research for effects that some find deeply upsetting. you answered that question. please -- >> sure you should be able to enunciate the term for pedog pedagogical reasons. you had teachers seeking to drive home as vividly as possible, the depth and centrality and influence of racism in american life. and one of the way in which these teachers sought to do that is to quote from important figures in history, patrick henry, and one could go on with others. and they quoted these, quoting, using the bad way the term. well, that's bringing home a point that all americans should know about. they should know about and hear about the centrality and the ugliness of racism. well, how could you really grasp that without hearing and grasping this word which is the racial slur in the american language? >> so, you just sort of -- i'm jarred by the fact that you just said it here. we didn't converse

space of just a few months that year, martin luther king junior was assassinated in mem memphis, robert f. kennedyhere was chaos at the democratic national convention in chicago, all against the backdrop of an unpopular war in vietnam. the times with different now. but the american tradition of protests continues. harry smith has our sunday spotlight. >> reporter: blame the founders, free speech, freedom of assembly, it's in the first amendment, top of the list. does protest work? >> it absolutely does. let's not forget that we're a nation born of riots as protests. the boston tea party was about attacking the capitalist system of the british empire. >> reporter: alvin tillery is head of the center for diversity and democracy at northwestern university. in your life, has any time felt quite like this time? >> i think that this is significantly different than other periods of uprising. in large part because of the magnitude of the uprising. young, multiracial crowds. >> reporter: inspired by an image. >> the particular cruelty in which mr. floyd was killed just created a visceral reaction on the pa

think about what robert f. kennedywhen president kennedy was killed. >> you're saying the president couldn't do that if he wanted to, to cities to states around the country. and he e dould that with the insurrection act. >> it requires that a governor asks the federal government to have federal forces bring in. we will cannot b doing that and i can't imagine any state will do that. >> you were on the phone call to the president today. a number of your fellow governors around the country. did that subject come up? sending military around the country? >> no. but the president spent 20 or 30 minutes on a crazy rant, frankly, talking about us needing to dominate the streets. the fact that is that many of us feel that the peaceful protestors have a real point to make. and something that needs to be heard. that black americans shouldn't be tsentenced to death for bein american. we have people dying like george floyd, like so many others we talk about on a regular basis, and people who -- because there hasn't been police acco

. >> congressman kennedy, it is really great that we have you here and of course robert f. t the time was one of the people inspired the idea to do this. what can and should be done to change this. the idea that this many decades later we are having the same conversation of the work and poor. what can be done about it? >> everything, joy. everything needs to be done. i am honored to be here with two workers here. i think is understanding not only yes, clearly, mcdonald's and other franchises have to provide paid sick time and ppe and sanitizing the stores and all the rest of it. that should happen. let's also understand just as a articulated, you are getting paid minimum wage and can't afford a roof over your head? when you are talking about paid sick leave, that's a choice our gun sh government not to require sick leave. that's a choice of our government to allow jobs that do not provide enough resources for as parent to raise a family. people are working full-time and qualify for food stamps, that's a choice for our government. corporate welfare to actually pay employees s

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