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electric_blue68

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8. Ty, Steve. Was thinking of mentioning it. I went to sleep bc results to NYC from California would be so late....
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 09:36 PM
Jun 2025

I took my dad's transistor radio to sleep w me. I woke up after 4+AM, and turned the radio on. But turned it right off.

So my sister told me he'd been shot when I was still trying sleep a bit more before getting up for HS.

Dragged around all day, in a distressed state. Had to go to a group get togther for a class "play" rehearshal. Then went to hang out with a like minded friend before going home to keep following the news.

Went to sleep eventually. Had transistor radio. Woke up with the same weird pains around 4AM or so Turned on the radio, they'd just announced he had died. Worse day at school.

Ugh. Terrible memories!

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. Chemical Bill Jun 2025 #1
I know exactly where I was and what I was doing when the story broke on the TV. His was the first sinkingfeeling Jun 2025 #2
Me too SARose Jun 2025 #11
Just two months earlier, April 5, MLK was assassinated.. I thought the world had gone bezerk with Viet Nam Deuxcents Jun 2025 #3
I was camping out in the neighborhood dweller Jun 2025 #4
... SheltieLover Jun 2025 #5
One of the saddest stories ever. valleyrogue Jun 2025 #6
He was going to be pesident. flashman13 Jun 2025 #20
RFK MoonlightHillFarm Jun 2025 #7
Ty, Steve. Was thinking of mentioning it. I went to sleep bc results to NYC from California would be so late.... electric_blue68 Jun 2025 #8
I was up watching black & white TV with my father and brother... Historic NY Jun 2025 #9
I watched it live on tv crazylikafox Jun 2025 #10
I remember it in detail. It was near the end of the year of my Freshman year in college. KitFox Jun 2025 #12
I was up watching when this happened. LoisB Jun 2025 #13
....Here: Busboy Juan Romero attempts to comfort the fatally-stricken RFK. Mr. Romero passed in 2018 riversedge Jun 2025 #14
...GOD...NOT AGAIN!!.......... riversedge Jun 2025 #15
It was horrible Joinfortmill Jun 2025 #16
I was 15 and very politically aware in 1968. BadgerMom Jun 2025 #17
Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK: My father lived his life in pursuit of justice and service: to his country, to his riversedge Jun 2025 #18
Ii felt like everything changed in that moment, a gigantic shift in the universe. niyad Jun 2025 #19
Nixon verses Humphrey Godot51 Jun 2025 #21
Agreed, and I still remember what my teacher said about it at the time Rhiannon12866 Jun 2025 #22
My parents were at the Ambassador Hotel that night but left early vapor2 Jun 2025 #23
A friend of mine's mother was there too. nolabear Jun 2025 #25
i was in elementary school when that happened ."" AllaN01Bear Jun 2025 #24
End of my sophomore year of college WinstonSmith4740 Jun 2025 #26
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