Where They Stood

A podcast dedicated to Michigan history and morbidly amazing stories buried deep (and not so deep) in our family trees.

Where They Stood

14: The Other Ballroom

August 21, 2023 • Holly Corr • Season 1 • Episode 14

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The story of Bobby Kennedy's bid for the 1968 Democratic Nomination, his last speech in California, and a Michigan woman who was waiting for him to speak in the other ballroom. Also, the story of the killer Ferris wheel (that never killed anyone).

Sources:
"Authority Song" by John Mellencamp
YouTube videos of Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy speaking

Pete Hamil's first hand account: https://www.villagevoice.com/pete-hamills-eyewitness-account-of-robert-kennedys-assassination/

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Essay_-_Incomplete_Justice_-_At_the_Ambassador_Hotel.html

Thurston Clarke recounts in his book, “The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/05/the-night-bobby-kennedy-was-shot-the-awful-scene-a-post-reporter-witnessed/

What Bobby Kennedy really meant when he said “Now it’s on to Chicago”

Rosey Grier: The Lineman Who Tried to Save RFK—And Voted for Trump

Gil Troy, Updated Jun. 03, 2018

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rosey-grier-the-linebacker-who-tried-to-save-rfkand-voted-for-trump

Patricia Guadalupe, June 6, 2018

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/how-rfk-s-assassination-set-back-latino-civil-rights-talk-n880156
Wikipedia

https://features.apmreports.org/arw/campaign68/a1.html

https://pueblo.gpo.gov/Publications/pdfs/6099.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/us/robert-kennedy-california.html

“Bobby For President” documentary on Netflix

https://www.sos.ca.gov/archives/rfkanniversary