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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemembering Robert F. Kennedy's whistle-stop tour across Nebraska 50 years ago
By David Hendee
LINCOLN Fifty years ago in a Lincoln living room, Robert F. Kennedys campaign for the presidency got on track.
It was late March 1968 and Kennedy, a U.S. senator from New York, had just entered the race for the Democratic nomination for president. The incumbent president, Lyndon Johnson, and a staunch anti-Vietnam War candidate, Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy, were already on the ballot in Nebraska and other early primary states.
Kennedys Nebraska campaign organizers including former Lt. Gov. Phil Sorensen, who returned to his home state from Indiana as a liaison between the national and state organizations huddled at the Country Club neighborhood home of Edie Van Neste. They had little time to cobble together a statewide campaign. Nebraskas mid-May primary loomed in about seven weeks.
Mary Ann Hanson of North Platte (now Mary Ann Strasheim of Omaha), the campaigns Lincoln County chairman, said Sorensen wished aloud that there were a big rodeo or some other event on the states spring calendar for Kennedy to visit and meet people.
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Remembering Robert F. Kennedy's whistle-stop tour across Nebraska 50 years ago (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Apr 2018
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dpibel
(2,894 posts)1. I saw him in Kearney
Big crowd, all across the railroad tracks (kinda strange for a town that had a train passing through about every 10 minutes).
Thanks for the reminder.
Think what coulda been...
Journeyman
(15,044 posts)2. John Stewart: "Clack, Clack" . . .
Clack, clack, clack
As the train is a-rolling down the track
To carry me home
Back where I belong
Clack, clack, clack
As the train is a-rolling down the track
To carry me home
Back where I belong
Dakota sky
Made us feel like a river
Running free, running free
And when I die
Bring the wheels that deliver
Restless me, restless me
Let me hear the clack, clack, clack
As the train goes rolling down the track
To carry me home
Back where I belong
Clack, clack, clack
As the train goes rolling down the track
To carry me home
Back where I belong
It was Bobby's song
That I wrote without trying
Every word, every word
Now that Bobby's gone
This is my way of crying
When I heard, when I heard
Listen to the clack, clack, clack
As the train goes rolling down the track
To carry him home
Back to where he belongs
Clack, clack, clack
As the train goes rolling down the track
To carry me home
Back where I belong
Sneederbunk
(14,319 posts)3. Shook hands with him at NU and Scottsbluff.
Omaha Steve
(99,845 posts)4. I'm jealous
I went door to door for him at age 11, but didn't get to even see him.
OS