Posts Tagged with "RFK"

Documentary: John and Yoko’s Year of Peace

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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Documentary: John and Yoko’s Year of Peace

I can’t figure out how to embed it, but you can watch the documentary here. I’ve always felt that John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s activities for peace were a bit cringeworthy—a misapplication of solution to problem, as if human aggression were the product of people being merely petulant, or distracted or forgetful. While I’m not [...]

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Fri Doc: “The Second Gun”

Friday, March 19, 2010

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Fri Doc: “The Second Gun”

Everybody agrees that Robert Kennedy was shot on June 4, 1968, in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel here in Los Angeles. Everybody also agrees that Sirhan Sirhan was in the pantry firing a gun at the Senator. But after that, nobody agrees on much—not witnesses, not coroner Thomas Noguchi, and not the LAPD. A [...]

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“The Second Gun”

Friday, June 6, 2008

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Today is the fortieth anniversary of RFK’s being shot here in Los Angeles. (He died a day later.) Though his murder is commonly thought to be open-and-shut–”crazy Palestinian enraged over the sale of fighter jets to Israel, et cetera”–unfortunately this is not the case. While it has never taken on the Byzantine permutations of his [...]

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Okay, still busted….

Sunday, November 19, 2006

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…but I have faith that it will be fixed eventually, so here I am with some random thoughts: 1) I celebrated the Cardinals’ victory in the World Series with a bottle of Veuve-Clicquot. The trick to not becoming a lush is to cultivate sufficiently expensive tastes. 2) I celebrated Halloween at The Aero, a theater [...]

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A few words about RFK

Monday, June 5, 2006

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Today is the 38th anniversary of the day Bobby Kennedy got shot–no, it wasn’t marked on my calendar, Slate reminded me. I thought I’d take a short break from revising Sophomore to share some thoughts. I come by my Kennedy assassination fetish honestly: My mother was raised Catholic, and my seldom-seen father died when I [...]

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Lots of interesting stuff today…

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

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A new book claiming that Sirhan Sirhan was a Manchurian Candidate-style hypnotized patsy is getting some attention. This theory (Sirhan is hypnotized, comes in shooting wildly to distract from the real shooter standing behind RFK) has been around forever. When put with the forensic evidence–too many shots, different calibers, and the fatal shot coming from [...]

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Just finished watching “RFK,” a PBS documentary…

Tuesday, October 5, 2004

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…on PBS, and I’m a little raw, since that story always upsets me a great deal. But I thought since I had a blog I’d write to you how the show made me feel. I was born in 1969, almost one year exactly after Robert Kennedy was shot dead while campaigning for President, and I [...]

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