Robert F. Kennedy

[Mr. H.]

Shot dead 45 years ago today.

I was 13 and on summer break from school. Got up early that morning and turned on the television to watch cartoons LOL. No cable TV back then, so I was stuck with the news.

First thing I did was call the neighbor lady across the street. She was big into politics.

Anyhow- big day in history there.

 

[Michelle420]

damn Mr H your old !

 

[Mr. H.]

Damn you're good at math.
And bad at spelling.

 

[Michelle420]

Damn you're good at math.
And bad at spelling.

the opposite is true but I need a raise to care about grammatical correctness on a messageboard

 

[tipofthespear]

Damn you're good at math.
And bad at spelling.

the opposite is true but I need a raise to care about grammatical correctness on a messageboard

...........funny........and all tue true........

and I like the signature you are using......but I would have to add Barry White to the list......

 

[Michelle420]

I'm not that young either

 

[Mr. H.]

Well I got it wrong LOL. I was watching TV when Ruby shot Oswald. It was broadcast live.

Funny story- when my oldest was about 9 years old, we were in the video store when I heard him ask "dad, what does this movie have to do with Kennedy's assassination?"

I turned around and he was holding "The Roswell Incident".

So I said, "oh you must be thinking of Lee Harvey Roswell".

"Yeah".

 

[tinydancer]

[ame=http://youtu.be/t8_fKIeyhzU]Dion My Old Friend Martin - YouTube[/ame]

Songwriters: RICHARD HOLLER

Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
You know, I just looked around and he's gone.

Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
I just looked around and he's gone.

Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young.
I just looked 'round and he's gone.

Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, and it's a-gonna be one day ...

Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill,
With Abraham, Martin and John.

 

[Mr. H.]

^ thanks for that. I remember hearing that on the radio and telling my brother how sad it made me.
I was 13 and we had lost our dad a year earlier.

 

[tipofthespear]

one here who remembers the Burr - Hamilton duel? ..........sigh..........

for you youngsters..........

The Burr–Hamilton duel was a duel between two prominent American politicians, the former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and sitting Vice President Aaron Burr, on July 11, 1804.[1] At Weehawken in New Jersey, Burr shot and mortally wounded Hamilton. Hamilton was carried to the home of William Bayard on the Manhattan shore, where he died at 2:00 p.m. the next day.