The RFK Files (Book Two) A Non-Fiction book by Robert Helliger

Chapter Twenty-Nine-RFK Legacy

~~~Quote: "Whenever men take the law into their own hands...The loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes", assassinated US Lawyer, Senator, Attorney-General, and Civil Rights activist, Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, (November 20, 1925-June 6, 1968), unquote~~~

FOOTNOTE 3

The last year of Senator and Attorney-General RFK's life was full of praise by others. By January of 1968, Kennedy was outraged by "The Tet Offensive", in Vietnam, (January 30, 1968), in which The Viet Cong fought the South Vietnamese and US Government. By February, 1968, Pete Hamill wrote to Kennedy, quote: "...obligation of staying true to whatever it was that put those pictures on those walls", unquote, (in reference to poor American people who were starving because of bad family circumstances); Kennedy, who travelled to Delano, California, met up with Mexican-American civil and animal rights campaigner César Estrada Chávez, (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993); and Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta, (April 10, 1930-), a Labour Leader, women's rights advocate, and honoured with  the United States Presidential Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights; as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award; Chávez and Huerta founded the influential  National Farmworkers Association, (re-named  The United Farm Workers ((UFW))).

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Edwin O. Guthman, (August 11, 1919 – August 31, 2008), a Seattle, Washington native, and University of Washington graduate, (1941), aged 22, he was The Seattle Star (1941–1947); and for The Seattle Times, (1947–1961), reporter; Guthman  was, in 1942, a infantry regiment reconnaissance platoon leader; he won The Pulitzer Prize at  The Seattle Times. By 1950, before The McCarthy Senate Hearings into US Anti-Communist activity, wrote about, quote, "...The suppression of Un-American Committee Commission, (based in Washington State), told readers that Washington Professor Melvin Rader, quote, "Was not a Communist", unquote.

      By 1961, he was Robert Kennedy's "Press Secretary"; he was third on "Nixon's Enemies List". *More on this is in "Book Three'. From 1965-1977 he edited the Los Angeles Times;  and The Philadelphia Inquirer, (Editorial Page Editor); *Lastly from 1987-2007 he was the University of Southern California, (Los Angeles, California); and The USC Annenberg School for Communication Senior Lecturer. He passed away on  August 31, 2008, aged 89, from amyloidosis, while he was in his Pacific Palisades home in Los Angeles.

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Guthman, who worked for the DOJ, (US Department of Justice), influence Senator Kennedy not to race against  Minnesota  U.S. House of Representatives member, Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy, (March 29, 1916 – December 10, 2005), (1949-1959), *McCarthy was not related with Senator Joseph McCarthy*, McCarthy was a member of The United States Congress, (1959-1971); McCarthy, by 1968, then aged 52, made one last jab for the US Presidency. He was up against 36th US President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973)-and he lost after 5 attempts to get into The White House.

         **When LBJ left,  Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr., (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978), was the  Minneapolis, Mayor, (1945-48); he founded  Americans for Democratic Action, (ADA); and the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, (MDFLP); Humphrey was LBJ's VP, (1965-9); Humphrey, informed President LBJ, the date: January 20, 1965, quote, "...North Vietnam was not a solution to the problems in South Vietnam...But that bombing would require the injection of US ground forces into South Vietnam to protect the airbases...That a military solution in Vietnam would take years...well beyond the next election cycle", unquote; LBJ refused to speak to him over the Vietnam issue, (especially over the Pleiku military base in  the Gia Lai Province). He was also the House Whip. He grew up in  Wallace, South Dakota native. His parents were Ragnild Kristine Sannes (1883–1973), a immigrant in Norway-and Hubert Humphrey, Sr., (1882–1949), a pharmacist**.

And to end,  at the 1964 Party Convention, RFK was asked to speak about his assassinated brother:

         "and when [he] shall die

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night

And pay no worship to the garish sun", _From "Romeo and Juliet" by WUK poet, writer, playwright, William Shakespeare, (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616)~~~

TO BE CONTINUED...

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