Robert F.Kennedy Funeral Train
Paul Fusco
Magnum Photos
Many of us in America believed that President John F. Kennedy was nurturing a renewing belief in the concept of government as an enabler for all citizens instead of a handmaiden to the privileged and the powerful. Before he was able to instill that as a working principle in our society he was gunned down by an assassin.
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Five years later when Bobby rose to try to re-establish a government of hope, the hearts of Americans quickened and excitement flared. Then tragedy struck again. The blow was monumental. Hope-on-the-rise was shattered and those in most need of hope crowded the tracks of Bobby's last train. Stunned into disbelief, they watched that hope trapped in a coffin pass and disappear from their lives.
