"We all want to thank you," said Bobby Kennedy to a breakfast audience of Kentucky delegates, "Jackie, Ethel, Pat, Eunice and Jean. Now there are only five or six of us left." Delegates blinked back tears.
Throughout Atlantic City, memory or mention of Jack Kennedy, that man of electric personality, evoked the most emotional, truly spontaneous reactions of the week.
Foreseeing this, President Johnson ordered that the showing of the 20 minute filmed eulogy to Kennedy be delayed until after the Democratic delegates had nominated Humphrey as their vice-presidential candidate. Bobby Kennedy was to...
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