Word: rfk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kennedy's story has always been the same. The weekend of the annual Edgartown Regatta there was a party for former RFK campaign workers in a cottage on Chappaquiddick Island, off Martha's Vineyard. A girl named Mary Jo Kopechne decided to return to her motel in Edgartown shortly after 11 p.m. Kennedy volunteered to drive her to the ferry, before it closed for the night. They never made it. Kennedy missed a turn and drove his black Oldsmobile 88 over the side of Dyke Bridge, the automobile plunging into Poucha Pond. Kopechne was found the next morning...
Veeck, the first witness in re-opened hearings on the stadium, explained that the All-Star game is by nature a national event with national interest and since RFK Stadium is a national facility, it should be used for the only baseball game that is national in scope He also described himself as "a hustler...
...possibilities of forming a liberal caucus seem to be slight, as part experience has shown. In the '68 race Robert Kennedy and McCarthy both at first claimed that they would not work against each other in the primaries, since they both supported a similar cause; RFK was even generous enough to support McCarthy in the Massachusetts Primary when he was too late to sign up for himself. However, in California when McCarthy and Kennedy ran against each other a bitter personal battle ensued, so bitter that after Kennedy's assassination most of his campaign workers chose to work for McGovern...
PROBABLY the strongest memory of all is of the detention center. In stories phoned in from Washington, I wanted to call the ball-field-turned-prison next to RFK Stadium a concentration camp; the editors, sitting in Cambridge, kept changing the wording to detention center. Perhaps they were right; after all, Metropolitan Police Chief Jerry Wilson called it a detention center and not a concentration camp, and he should know. But if that wasn't a concentration camp, I never want...
...effect, federal officials finally resorted to a policy of indiscriminate mass arrest, casually herding together 7000 protestors and innocent bystanders whom they unloaded into Washington's RFK Stadium. It made an innocent enough detention camp. At Berkeley, such camps have held huge crowds up to 36 hours without the "prisoners" being able to reach a lawyer. With all the impersonal malice of the law, the individuals inside such camps lose many of the normal rights of the accused because the courts cannot adequately process such large numbers-or quickly acquit the innocent. The natural by-product of these mass arrests...