[applause] i was about to say how special the slightest but you beat me to it. Welcome. My name is steve, im the executive director and on behalf of all the collects in the foundation and jamie the collects in the library, were thrilled to could be here. All of our forms are great, but tonight is a tree. Its also the beginning of the john f. Kennedy centennial weekend. We plan this months ago and we really thought would be the best speaker and moderator week again for this historic time. Were thrilled theyre both here. Before i introduce them, few brief announcements. First, want to thank our underwriters and sponsors. Bank of america, the Lowell Institute including bill and andrea, i media sponsors. As i say, were kicking off the centennial was information when you leave about what were doing over the next few days. Over the next few days there are opportunities to see new exhibits with a hundred items on saturday will be doing a special peace corps day, on sunday we have an astronaut
Nine hundred sixty eight americas last summer of hope. A funeral train rolled slowly through the long summer afternoon. Crowds lined the tracks hoping to catch a glimpse as the casket of Robert Francis kennedy was taken to washington. The poor. Despondent the devout. Widows whose husbands a died in vietnam. Says neighborhood still small. And the young. Those dreams have been shattered too soon. Into national cemetery. Two brothers gunned down just five years apart reunited. President john f. Kennedys murder in dallas on november twenty second one thousand nine hundred sixty three that ended the age of american innocence and plunged the country into violence and social turmoil. At his brothers funeral Bobby Kennedy was consumed by remorse and guilt. And as he reflected on the political life he had shared with john he asked himself who had killed his brother and why. John and Bobby Kennedy had made numerous sentiments including maffia bosses f. B. I. Director j. Edgar hoover fidel castro
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