Sen. Paul Wellstone in Whitesburg

n 1997, Senator Paul Wellstone retraced the steps of his hero, Robert
Kennedy, through Appalachia, focusing in particular on eastern Kentucky.
With him was his wife Sheila, daughter of Letcher/Harlan County natives
Delmer and Ellen Ison, and a frequent summer visitor to Kingdom Come Creek
when she was growing up. Also accompanying the Wellstones was senior aide
Tom Lapic. All three were tragically killed in a plane crash on October 25.

During the 1997 tour, Paul, Sheila and Tom spent several days visiting a
Head Start classroom, touring a housing rehabilitation site, and hearing the
concerns of working and disabled coal miners, their wives and widows. On
August 30, Senator Wellstone held a Town Meeting at Appalshop where he
listened for several hours as folks from all over central Appalachia
expressed their concerns about the economy, community development, health
care, education, poverty, workers' rights, and social and environmental
justice. Here are the Senator's closing remarks.

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[eyeswide4u2]

this will NOT die . .another martyr for speaking out against the "machine" . . . the "complex" . . designed to make us scared . . WE AREN'T !

FUCK you whoever killed him . .it only makes the opposition STRONGER !

[jeffreydebra1]

Paul was a great human being!

[s8peed]

a whiteman with a pure heart "amazing".

[FightTheElite]

Ah... a comment from back when you could write fock with a u.

Fock censorship.

[MopacMurtaza]

Truth is hard to accept.

[daderone]

shut your f'n mouth you ignorant disrespectful bigot. Save your rhetoric to defile some other video

[renegade2142]

If I was a outspoken enemy of the NWO, no way I would fly. They control the air too well. I.E. sept. 11, the assassination of Larry McDonald, and of course Mr. Wellstone here.

[capelipl]

the murdered paul wellstone killed by the fascist treasonist in america and the collusionist zionist american forces,

looked the other way ?

only the democrats , only zionist jews ,only the fascist christians, only closeted homosexual repugnicans,

all treasonist, all mass murder complicit for helping to promote the goals of 911

[shakaz01]

rofl