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electric_blue68

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4. The C,S,N&Y song "Long Time Gone" was written the night Sen RFK was shot in reaction, and all the efforts at change

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Fri Jun 6, 2025, 05:21 PM

Jun 2025

Crosby wrote it. He was still upset about JFK's assassination, and then this was just too much. Stephen Stills helped bring it as a song to fruition.

"Speak out against the madness
Speak your mind, yeah
That is, if you still can and if you still dare
Why don't you? Yeah
But don't, no, don't (get yourself elected)
I said don't, yeah
I said don't, yeah
If you do, you had better cut your hair, yeah

And it appears to be a long
Appears to be a long
Appears to be a long
Such a long time
Such a long time before the dawn"

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America Diverted: The Loss of Sen. Robert F Kennedy... June 5, 6 1968... [View all] electric_blue68 Jun 2025 OP

I was 11 at the time Ferryboat Jun 2025 #1

Ty. Yes it was an inflection point.... electric_blue68 Jun 2025 #3

... SheltieLover Jun 2025 #2

The C,S,N&Y song "Long Time Gone" was written the night Sen RFK was shot in reaction, and all the efforts at change electric_blue68 Jun 2025 #4

Yes, dragging RFK through a crowded kitchen. What could go wrong with that? elocs Jun 2025 #5

Yep. I have my "wonderings". electric_blue68 Jun 2025 #7

Our nation changed that day in ways no one could imagine at the time Boomerproud Jun 2025 #6