Robert F. Kennedy, affectionately known to all as Bobby Kennedy, against the advice of his brother Senator Ted Kennedy and many of the leading Democratic Party leaders, entered the Presidential race on March 16th, 1968. Pacifica Radio was there to record his meteoric rise from late comer to his murder in the early morning hours following his victory in the final and most coveted Primary of the race, California on June 4th, 1968.
We begin by playing one of Bobby Kennedy’s early speeches of his campaign in late March 1968 on the Campus of San Fernado State Valley College later named Cal State Northridge in 1972. He begins by playfully taking a jab at Richard Nixon, who Kennedy believed would be his opponent in the 1968 Presidential election. After his speech he fielded a handful of question
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