RFK campaign ad 1968

[digitalwasabi2]

Wow, talk about fearmongering. I think he out-Algored Algore!

[CentristFiascox3]

Younger Baby Boomers and Older Baby Boomers have to suffer of the mistakes that happen in the 60s. Generation X have to sit and watch. Generation Y have to listen to music while getting a free ride in everything that they do. Millennials have to log on to Facebook.

[paramedicEmergency51]

Pollution is worse now

[Boelcke1919]

When the CIA killed Bobby Kennedy, they killed the man who would have probably been our second Lincoln. That is a huge loss for the nation and hard to overcome.

[lawrence142002]

At the 1960 convention, Bobby got right up in Hubert Humphrey's face, poked him in the chest and said "We want your support, or else!" Humphrey stood his ground and poked Bobby right back and said "Bobby, go to hell!"

[Sistarovat]

This was in 1968 and he was saying that in ten years people might have to start wearing gas masks in NYC. I'm sure the regulations he wanted to enact never got enacted under the Nixon and Ford administrations and nobody had to wear gas masks in NYC past '78. In hindsight this is a perfect example of the scare tactics Democrats have been using for the past fifty-eighty years.

[redskins1111]

RFK was a jerk; JFK was alright because he was a conservative; RFK was a typical liberal communist

[GOFLuvr]

"Industry must do something..."  And what industry has done since this ad, was relocate factories to developing nations with weaker environmental laws while the American government looked the other way.

[brainstormer9]

the country would be better if the Kennedys survived.

[snoops71]

Too bad he didn't at least get the chance to run.

Thanks for posting :)

[andrelebaron]

he'd have created even bigger deficits and unfunded liabilities than the rest of the hippy era politicians.

[GOFLuvr]

@andrelebaron What about Nixon? There were a lot of hippies still left in Nixon's days, and he was the first President since Franklin Roosevelt to advocate for universal health care.

[lawrence142002]

@GOFLuvr

Harry Truman advocated for Universal Health Care as well.

[GOFLuvr]

@lawrence142002 I had no idea, but that would make sense, as Truman continued a lot of Roosevelt's policies. I need to research the great American healthcare debate some more... Not that I would have learned from a Republican that Nixon advocated for it! (Although I shockingly learned from a Democrat that the Democrats were opposed to it at the time, but did have a change of heart in retrospect.)

[JoesRambles]

Gee whiz, he is scaring the crap out of those poor kids!

[ftsjr]

I turned 11 years old in 1968 and, had I been old enough, I may have voted for RFK for president, had he not been killed. However, being from NY, I wouldn't have voted for him in 1964, when he ran for the senate. It was obvious, even to the most ardent Kennedy supporter, that he planned to use the office as a stepping stone to the white house. He had no intention of serving the people of NY at all. And that's just how it worked out.

[LakersSOCA]

@ftsjr that is simply inaccurate. 

[ftsjr]

@LakersSOCA I certainly didn't know his motives. But since he didn't live in NY at the time he was running, nor was he registered to vote in NY, I could only come to the conclusion that the NY senate seat was simply a target of opportunity.

[Soxogram]

The Kennedys were good people. They tried to make things right for the United States. It wasn't perfect, but it was what we had.

[therushfan22]

I would sure take these kids over the California voters today!

BTW RFK's message was way off! well intentioned but way way off!

[oopsibrokethecow]

He was talking about wearing a gas mask in the city. That wasn't visionary, that never happened and never will .He also said we would have to live underground, well...that never happened, never will. Just like Democrats today, he was a fear monger and propagandist to get votes.

[ricadrew]

@oopsibrokethecow I remember back then in grammer school, they used to show us pictures of people in cities walking around with gas masks on and that was projected to happen in the distant future of the 80's, LOL! It was all bullshit then, just like global warming is now!

[micmac99]

@ricadrew So the BP oil spill is bullshit?

[FRSFreeState]

Bobbie Kennedy vs Dick Nixon would've been a great Presidential Campaign

[fishhead06]

Forty years on, and this stuff still sounds revolutionary! It makes me wonder if his death might have been arranged by poweerful interests.

[ufelcher]

burn in hell vile bastard

[xtrmsprts]

This shows Kennedy had started working for his 1980 presidential race well in advance, makes no sense of targeting citizens that can't vote. If Bobby thought this was the way of ingratiating the parents of these critters well, that's how he lost several states. All said, I'd still have voted for Kennedy.

[borch1260]

Kids are thinking, what's refuse????

[FrsBigeasy]

Who Knows what the 1968 Campaign would've Look Liked had RFK not been Killed.

[stephenwinkler]

@FrsBigeasy

Humphrey had an insurmontable lead in delegates and would have won the nomination anyway. My question is, would Humphrey offered Kennedy the vice presidency, would Kennedy have accepted it, and would a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket win in the November election?

[Representative45]

In 2010 republicans would call this moment socialist...somehow..

[jfkpublicservant]

@Representative45 Honestly, who aren't they calling socialists right now?

[Eric8542010]

@jfkpublicservant, Republicans throw around the word "socialist" and don't even know what that word means.

[vopher]

Haha! Nebraska really can make the difference, just look at the health-care bill.

[game3525]

Times have change, look at they are giving Obama a hard time for talking to kids. Could you imagine what the right would do if Bobby did this in the year 2009?

[Alexander78Mr]

He wouldn't nominate in 1968, I think.

[tedm1975]

RFK was the real man for change.

[Waldocounty]

"750 lbs. of refuse you BREATHE?" WTF?

Oh, sure...these 8-year-olds all knew who "Secretary Gardner" was and could recite his remarks by heart.

An ill-thought-out ad then, an unthinkable one by today's standards.

[game3525]

Yeah, Bobby would not fit in with this day and age.

[mainsqueeze1977]

And certainly not into that Democrat party!

[Ja100453]

RFK should be the greatest presidnet in history if he chose MLK as vice presidnet

[thewarrior4]

@Ja100453 I agree with that statement imagine RFK and MLK President and Vice-President

[Donnie2020]

I liked RFK but he needed to realise he audience here.

He was talking to kids like adults.

[nukenate]

The kids where like "Living underground? O-o-h, I could have a giant mole as my pet! We would build tunnles and have adventures! Wait, that man is talking to me? Should I nod? What did he just say?"

[djl1980]

Well it's several decades later and i dont see anyone wearing gas masks. Guess he was wrong.

[UnderstandHim]

he's talking about the environment back then, RFK was such a visionary

[RosalindRosebud]

i try to live my life without thinking about "what if", but sometimes, when i hear bobby speak, i find myself asking that.

[hollywoodartchick]

I agree. But I think it is part of the same "what if" that cut down Martin, Jack, Malcolm, JFK Jr, and Pope JP 1. If our own money was not being used to eliminate every leader who is on our side, the world would be very different.

[mrtyles]

his son is keeping up the good work.

[joeytrimble]

you wanna know ..your right ..thats funny .. they were tugging away at our heart strings with pollution even then! .. gas masks in a few decades...here we are ..40 years later .. no gas masks required ..only now they're telling us fantasys about how the world is gonna be flooded if we dont stop ... funny how the threat gets more and more as the years go by .. wait ...wtf happened to the gas mask threat! did we not jump a step in the threat level? sheesh this country

[Dadelus]

Let us see. Since he made that announcement the EPA was formed, controls were put on automobiles, unleaded gasoline was used. The steps were taken to guarantee we would not have to wear gas masks, etc.

[joeytrimble]

so why all the threats? did these EPA warrented controls suddenly over whelm the earth?? ... now we need stronger controls right? .. or maybe instead of a gas mask ..to go along with threats now adays ..we'll go get scuba gear how about that?

[LittlePinky82]

You should've lived where I do in the late 60's. It was one of the top ten most polluted cities in the country at the time. Now we're considered the country's scenic city. And who's to say Kennedy was wrong? Because people took him seriously we are where we are. But hey if you want to not believe it fine but thankfully more people are coming together to stop pollution and global warming than people like you who.

[joeytrimble]

when i was a kid they told us we were some how going to use all the water up if we didn't stop drinking so much and using so much in showers ... now they have this wild idea that theres gonna be too much water that we're all gonna drowned from it

you enviromental frauds really need to give it up ... and its sad because its normally well too do yuppie white people who go on these parades without a hint of irony

al gore has become a multi millionair because of globalwarming

[lilkumarjones]

Al Gore won a Nobel Prize for his work on Global warming. Now don't tell me that the nobel prize ppl are retarded too. But they the ppl who think global warming isn't real are the same ppl who centuries ago would have said that the earth is at the center of the universe and that it is flat not spherical. Typical.

[joeytrimble]

i'm sure gore took a limo to the airport then took a plane to the city hosting the awards... then took a limo to the place the award ceremony was held then accepted his award...but ...he wants to conserve on energy right?

[lilkumarjones]

Again, typical argument. What Gore and other global warming ppl want is for government to INVEST in alternative sources of energy, meaning be innovative and INVENT new ways of transportation, etc. Until that happens, there is no other way for them to get around. So yes, they have to use planes and cars to get to places, because that is the only reliable form of technology currently available. They also need it to be affordable for ppl. Hybrid cars are in existence, but are super expensive.

[mainsqueeze1977]

Given to whom they have given the peace prize in 2009, they are retarted.

[integral]

How sad that you've lost the ability to think clearly.

[rfkmustdie]

Thanks, Bill. I have another RFK campaign ad on my channel as well as the trailer for my film and will upload more.

I've heard a lot about "The Last Campaign" and would love to see it. Do you know where I could get a copy? It's a shame it's never been released.

[BillKrohn90010]

Wow, this brings back the memories, thanks! Sad to think this was his "last campaign." Which is the title of a great film by the way.