riding in the car in 1968

my serious news story for today:

Tom Steyer makes moves toward a presidential bid


Los Angeles Times

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Train arrive, it's sixteen coaches long

Train arrive, it's sixteen coaches long

Well, that long black train -- take my baby and gone

Mystery train, rollin' down the track
Mystery train, rollin' down the track
Well, it took my baby, people it won't be coming back


Train, train -- rollin' 'round the bend
Train, train -- rollin' 'round the bend
Well, it took my baby, people it won't be back again


Train arrive -- it's sixteen coaches long
Train arrive, it's sixteen coaches long
Well, that long black train -- take my baby and gone

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"Mystery Train" -- written by Herman Parker Jr. and Sam Phillips.  1953.

Recorded by --

Little Junior's Blue Flames
Elvis Presley
Paul Butterfield
The Band
The Grateful Dead

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Today's You Tube video:

Remembering The Legacy Of RFK 50 Years Later

------------------------- I remember being in a car in Ohio, my dad driving, he and my mother talking about Robert Kennedy's murder which had just been in the news.  It was 1968, five years past the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

     I can't remember exactly what I thought, or how I understood the events.  I can recall my mom saying, "A man can't even run for president without being killed."

     Her tone sounded disgusted and shocked.

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"The Irish were not wanted there [when his grandfather came to Boston].  Now an Irish Catholic is president of the United States.  

There is no question about it -- in the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has.... We have tried to make progress and we are making progress ... we are not going to accept the status quo."

~  Robert F. Kennedy, in a 1961 interview

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