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3 December 1968 // Elvis’s tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. & Bobby Kennedy

I feel like these lovely ladies outside the window.

“Most men don’t care about children as much as women do, but he did. He needed no urging to be with his children, with them his love was full and without reservation.” ~Jacqueline Kennedy about her husband as a father. 

How she looked into his eyes...

Jack Kennedy with his daughter Caroline - 1963

Yeah. On my bed. With a Bugs Bunny blanket. Yeaaaaaah.

Imagine finding your favorite historical figure sleeping in your own bed.

profile of grace

Well. I won't use watercolors, and I didn't want to use them. I don't have an art education, so... Yeah I know I have mistakes. I tried my best, with all my love, but damn... Bobby! You deserve better.

Just look! It's... I mean ... Uh, he's so cute!!

Bobby Kennedy, 1964

Oh God. K. I'm crying, thanks.

The horrible year that was 1968 came to an end with the RFK children putting a book together for their mother memorializing Bobby. David’s entry was the standout - an extraordinary piece for a 13-year-old. 

“Daddy was very funny in church because he would embarrass all of us by singing very loud. Daddy did not have a very good voice. There will be no more football with Daddy, no more swimming with him, no more riding with him and no more camping with him. But he was the best father there ever was and I would rather have him for a father for the length of time I did than any other father for a million years.”

- Behind Blue Eyes: The Biography of David Anthony Kennedy by Grahame Bedford

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

Senator Jack!

Carole Lombard and Jimmy Stewart welcome the new year in Made for Each Other (1939)

April 4, 1968 | Dr. King used to say you have to be maladjusted to the problems, to the issues that you see around us. Robert Kennedy was maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr. was maladjusted. They had the ability to get in the way. Today we’re too quiet, we’re too silent. We need to find a way to push and pull, and disturb the sense of false peace, and the sense of false order that we have in our society today. I was there standing nearby when Robert Kennedy spoke those words. They were powerful then, and they’re still powerful today. No one had been able to capture the essence of what was happening in America like him. What he said was very much in keeping with the very philosophy and the discipline and nonviolence that was preached and taught by Martin Luther King, Jr. No one in America today is speaking the way Robert Kennedy spoke then. – Rep. John Lewis

Maintain distance, dear ladies and gentlemen!

Take care of yourself!

I listen to a damn good-soundin' Creedance Clearwater Revival record and drink Dr. Pepper, enjoying a 'fresh' portrait of Kennedy on the wall of my room. What could be better? Oh babe this is going to be a great year. It must be !

P. S. Smiling Bobby to secure prayers for the beginning of the new year.

Uh...It's fucking true!

Literally me….

Me every time I see something about Robert Kennedy’s assassination:

this is so funny to me

Damn, I would love to be outside that door!!

kiss-kiss

bye-bye

Lana just posted on her Instagram accounts (22.02.18)

@lanadelrey: The new CNN Original Series, “American Dynasties: The Kennedys,” premieres Sunday, March 11.

“Young and Beautiful” is featured in the serie’s trailer!

Portrait of Myself By Robert Francis Kennedy

“I am thirteen years old, and about five feet two inches tall, I have got a lot of freckles. I have Hazel eyes, and blond hair which is plenty hard to keep down because I have so many licks, and so much of it. I am not very fat, but fat enough. I weigh about one hundred pounds. I take about five and a half shoe. I have a pretty good character on the whole, but my temper is not too good. I am not jealous of anyone, I have got a very loud voice, and talk a lot, but sometimes my talk is not very interesting. I have quite good tastes for food, but there is a lot of things I don’t like at all for instence [sic] cabbage, fish pie, Brussels sprouts, colif flower [sic], and pears. I love almost everything, cholcet [sic]. I like the cinema very much, and go very often. I go to the theatre once and a while, and like it quite well. I like football, but I like American football much better. I don’t like cricket very much I like baseball a lot. Going swimming is one of my favorite sports. I like skiing one of the best, and I think I am the best at this sport out of all the thing I do. I can’t dive very well, but like it to a cirten [sic] exstant [sic]. I think this is a portrait of my self.”

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Bobby photographed with his father Joe on holiday in Eden Roc, France 1937.

Two types of Bobby Kennedy pictures

bobby sitting in his chair and never putting his damn feet on the floor

bobby being attacked by his children

“In August 1964, Robert F. Kennedy took the podium at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City. Immediately, a roar of applause took the whole hall. The crowd wouldn't let him speak, they wouldn’t let go of him. He was the representation of what they had lost. If the delegates had a sense of loss, imagine what his feelings were. Every day, every hour, every minute, he felt the loss of his brother. The pandemonium went on for twenty-two long minutes. As the crowd finally grew quiet, he bared his grief, enshrining his brother in words from Romeo and Juliet. When he was finished speaking, he left the hall, sat on the fire escape, and wept.” • RFK: An American Experience

one of my favorite things about bobby kennedy is that the man clearly has no idea what to do with his legs whenever hes sitting in a chair

Huh?

Ok. In the end, I decided to draw a portrait of Bobby. Let's see what comes out of this sketch.

Bobby Kennedy during the Oregon Primary (1968)

Oh, who's that nice kid?

A young JFK with his book ‘Why England Slept’.

Red, white, blue's in the sky   Summer's in the air and      Baby, heaven's in your eyes          I'm your National Anthem!

JFK during a holiday, 1963.