Remembering R.F.K.

In memory of the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy '48, The Crimson reprints an excerpt from the staff editorial published after his death.

"THE acres of newsprint written on Robert F. Kennedy's death are monument to the insufficiency of words to capture very much of the horror of the event. There is something very nearly obscene in our lust for facts--interview with the Los Angeles ambulance driver or the engineer who drove the funeral train. And there is something both noble and terrifying in the passion of thousands of Americans to be part of the public mourning, shoving so hard to get near the funeral train that two are killed by an express speeding in the other direction.

"One hopes that the talk about violence and American character is the start of a period of national introspection..."