WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:19.380 On April 4th, 1968, at 6.05 p.m., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot down in Memphis, 2 00:00:19.520 --> 00:00:19.960 Tennessee. 3 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:34.000 The scene was shot in the middle of the night. 4 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:34.000 5 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:34.000 6 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:34.000 7 00:00:34.020 --> 00:00:34.020 8 00:00:34.020 --> 00:00:34.020 9 00:00:34.020 --> 00:00:34.140 The scene was shot in the middle of the night. 10 00:00:34.140 --> 00:00:34.940 The scene was shot in the middle of the night. 11 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:36.060 The scene was shot in the middle of the night. 12 00:00:36.060 --> 00:00:36.060 13 00:00:36.120 --> 00:00:37.160 The scene was shot in the middle of the night. 14 00:00:37.160 --> 00:00:37.920 The scene was shot in the middle of the night. 15 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:38.380 The scene was shot in the middle of the night. 16 00:00:38.380 --> 00:00:38.700 The scene was shot in the middle of the night. 17 00:00:38.700 --> 00:01:08.660 The scene was shot in the middle of the night. 18 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 19 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 20 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 21 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 22 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 23 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 24 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 25 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 26 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 27 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 28 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 29 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 30 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:08.660 31 00:01:08.660 --> 00:01:14.660 The world comes from heaven. 32 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:26.340 For all that is in my heart, I do believe. 33 00:01:27.720 --> 00:01:32.980 The eternal world comes from heaven. 34 00:01:34.940 --> 00:01:39.680 From the days of chaos came a cry of urgency, a cry of now. 35 00:01:40.540 --> 00:01:41.380 This is our home. 36 00:01:41.940 --> 00:01:43.300 This is where we all live. 37 00:01:43.940 --> 00:01:45.060 We're not separate countries. 38 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:47.140 We're all one and a part of one another. 39 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:51.780 And what effects where one part of the nation suffers, the rest of the country suffers. 40 00:01:52.260 --> 00:01:56.160 When one part of the United States prospers, we all go up. 41 00:01:56.440 --> 00:01:58.800 That's what I want to see recognized in this country. 42 00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:04.060 And I want to see us break down the barriers that presently divide us and start dealing with one another. 43 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:07.080 And working with one another to deal with these problems. 44 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:10.840 The vice president has gone to the American people and said, 45 00:02:11.260 --> 00:02:13.800 this is the politics of joy and the politics of happiness. 46 00:02:14.660 --> 00:02:18.700 I don't happen to think that that describes the condition in the United States at the present time. 47 00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:21.600 I don't think that we can say we have politics of joy. 48 00:02:21.600 --> 00:02:25.720 Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York had been late entering the 68 race. 49 00:02:25.720 --> 00:02:30.800 Now he must run twice as hard through Indiana, Nebraska, Oregon, and California. 50 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:34.460 Sustained by a kind of spring steel inner turmoil. 51 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:40.040 Often visibly frightened by this involvement, he turned toward the people for vindication. 52 00:02:40.380 --> 00:02:43.680 Turned toward the crowds for signs that his decision was a right one. 53 00:02:44.700 --> 00:02:46.080 Anxious to be worthy of them. 54 00:02:46.760 --> 00:02:49.600 Anxious to look into their faces and to touch them. 55 00:02:49.600 --> 00:02:57.300 Harassed by the necessity to prove to himself and to the folks back east that he had a right to the job he was asking for. 56 00:02:59.980 --> 00:03:05.600 And to prove to the democratic delegates, who in five months would meet in Chicago convention assembled, 57 00:03:06.440 --> 00:03:08.540 that this was indeed another Kennedy year. 58 00:03:21.260 --> 00:03:23.060 The pace was frenetic. 59 00:03:23.620 --> 00:03:27.600 He moved swiftly with the lithe grace and intense awareness of a bullfighter. 60 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:38.580 This was a celebrity running, but a star-crossed celebrity carrying a tragic sense of history. 61 00:03:39.180 --> 00:03:41.420 An El Cordobes of American politics. 62 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:53.840 If Kennedy was El Cordobes, the bullfighter, Senator Eugene McCarthy continued on as Don Quixote, dreaming the improbable dream. 63 00:03:54.740 --> 00:04:00.140 He had started in the cold of New Hampshire, leading what some had called a children's crusade. 64 00:04:00.660 --> 00:04:06.580 He had been running uphill against politicians, pollsters, and the advice of columnists who said he couldn't make it. 65 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:15.820 He saw himself as an accidental candidate who spoke against our presence in Vietnam with no precedent for success, 66 00:04:16.140 --> 00:04:22.500 but he believed that there was no precedent against it, and he had come away from New Hampshire with a piece of the action. 67 00:04:23.840 --> 00:04:29.880 He had gone into Wisconsin, a more serious candidate, and seen the president capitulate. 68 00:04:30.700 --> 00:04:37.380 He was now running against something perhaps even more imposing, the power of the Kennedys and the Kennedy mystique. 69 00:05:19.760 --> 00:05:26.500 I remember one tough day in Indiana. Early morning meetings with Gary politicians and labor leaders. 70 00:05:27.420 --> 00:05:36.240 Then on the South Bend, El Cardo in Evansville. It was a tough day, the crowds were small, a struggle for votes in Kennedy territory. 71 00:05:37.580 --> 00:05:41.360 But the Nader was at noon as he watched TV in a Gary airport. 72 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:46.600 Now the TV had been pushed aside and he commented on Hubert Humphrey's entrance into the race. 73 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:51.900 I don't know, I noticed that he used a lot of words beginning with P in this speech. That was a significant point. 74 00:05:53.280 --> 00:05:55.340 Priorities, peace, politics. 75 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:03.120 He took a poet's view of the TV performance, but I sensed a despondency. 76 00:06:04.400 --> 00:06:11.340 Now it was not only the Kennedys and their history he was running against. It was his own history and his friend from Minnesota. 77 00:06:23.780 --> 00:06:28.700 Kennedy had done well in Indiana and Nebraska, but not as well as had been expected. 78 00:06:29.880 --> 00:06:32.940 McCarthy and his young people had developed a new kind of politics. 79 00:06:33.660 --> 00:06:41.320 It was an announcement that when Senator Kennedy came in that all this so-called great love affair between me and the students would come to an end. 80 00:06:41.840 --> 00:06:52.300 I thought it might develop into a kind of triangle, but I might have to sue for alienation of affections or something of that kind. 81 00:06:53.420 --> 00:06:57.200 But the record has proved that the students have stood by me all the way. 82 00:06:57.580 --> 00:07:02.720 And while the experts still couldn't really take McCarthy seriously, many of the voters did. 83 00:07:03.300 --> 00:07:05.520 The real test was to be on the West Coast. 84 00:07:06.340 --> 00:07:13.260 Oregon was considered a giant suburb of contended voters and California a frantic microcosm of the nation as a whole. 85 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:25.400 I said to my faithful workers in Nebraska that I checked out the history of the Westward movement and found that practically every wagon train had made it to the Missouri. 86 00:07:26.960 --> 00:07:33.960 It was only after you crossed it and started on the Oregon Trail and the California Trail that the real test began. 87 00:07:33.960 --> 00:07:39.760 For the first time in Oregon, McCarthy had the support of a regular democratic organization. 88 00:07:41.060 --> 00:07:50.200 But these primaries were conducted at final test time and the distances were great and not many student volunteers could come. 89 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:03.260 California was a campaign of fast cars, surging crowds, and whistle stops. 90 00:08:07.180 --> 00:08:11.620 But out of it all, one night in Los Angeles sticks in my mind. 91 00:08:17.640 --> 00:08:23.820 Kennedy had come in from Oregon for a rally at the sports arena and suddenly he was alone. 92 00:08:25.140 --> 00:08:28.620 He walked in the lobby, the sound of the entertainment filtering out. 93 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:37.200 The reporters and the cameramen and the spectators who saw him stayed back, sensing somehow that this was a time for him to be alone. 94 00:08:38.740 --> 00:08:44.380 Then he turned and moved into the crowd with his hand out as he had so many times and with that same tense look. 95 00:08:45.540 --> 00:08:48.020 It was a night of triumph that so many had been. 96 00:08:49.100 --> 00:08:52.440 The sports arena was filled and the crowd warm and enthusiastic. 97 00:08:54.300 --> 00:09:03.680 But I kept seeing him as I had here in the Democratic Convention of 1960, a thin and tense figure managing his brother's campaign. 98 00:09:04.380 --> 00:09:08.100 And remembered how they had taken the sports arena on the first ballot. 99 00:09:10.160 --> 00:09:14.260 We waited on the plane until the senator returned from a TV interview. 100 00:09:29.180 --> 00:09:33.760 Pretty soon the plane took off and he came back to join his aides and the reporters. 101 00:09:33.760 --> 00:09:44.400 The fatigue showed through as the plane waved north relentlessly toward Oregon and more long days of campaigning. 102 00:09:55.320 --> 00:10:01.420 My mom, he was on that show one day, you know, Meet the Past or something like that. 103 00:10:01.640 --> 00:10:04.140 And my mom, and he gave a real good speech, you know. 104 00:10:04.540 --> 00:10:10.180 And my mom said he was a real good fellow. 105 00:10:10.880 --> 00:10:12.340 I think he'll win. 106 00:10:14.220 --> 00:10:15.440 I think he's going to win. 107 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.460 Win because his brother was the president, but I don't think so. 108 00:10:18.500 --> 00:10:20.340 I think he's going to win on his own merits. 109 00:10:20.560 --> 00:10:26.140 Yeah, I don't like how he's saying it's just running behind his brother's name. 110 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:29.000 Everybody says that, but I don't think it's true. 111 00:10:29.160 --> 00:10:31.600 He can win without that. 112 00:10:32.160 --> 00:10:39.820 The right to bring control of the government back to the people themselves so that they have some control over their own future and their control over their own destiny. 113 00:10:39.820 --> 00:10:44.300 In this effort, in this effort, I ask for your support on Tuesday. 114 00:10:44.660 --> 00:10:45.820 I need your help. 115 00:10:46.060 --> 00:10:47.360 I need your assistance. 116 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:49.420 And I come here to ask for your support. 117 00:10:49.700 --> 00:10:53.740 I think all of us working together can make a difference for the United States of America. 118 00:10:53.820 --> 00:10:58.740 And I think we can make a difference around the rest of the globe if we work together and if we act together. 119 00:10:58.820 --> 00:11:01.480 And I come here to ask for your support in that effort. 120 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:30.580 Kennedy lost to McCarthy in Oregon. 121 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:34.700 Why did I lose? 122 00:11:35.900 --> 00:11:37.280 Just because I didn't do well enough. 123 00:11:37.280 --> 00:11:42.540 I mean, there wasn't any, I can just, the only fault or blame is me. 124 00:11:42.760 --> 00:11:44.360 I can't, but I can't. 125 00:11:44.420 --> 00:11:44.960 That's me. 126 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:46.420 I'm going to do the best I can. 127 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:47.820 And I ask for the support. 128 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:49.500 I'm going to work very hard. 129 00:11:49.920 --> 00:11:54.260 The people that have supported me and believe in the same things that I believe in, I think will work hard. 130 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:56.160 I'm going to do all that I can. 131 00:11:56.160 --> 00:11:57.920 And I've done all that I can so far. 132 00:11:58.020 --> 00:11:59.780 And if that's the end of it, I'm not successful. 133 00:11:59.780 --> 00:12:07.420 And I will have to abide by that because people have then made a choice in the largest state of the union that they want to move in a different direction. 134 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:14.920 Take some chances on other peoples in other parts of the world and take some chances on the people who live in the United States. 135 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:27.840 I followed Senator McCarthy's California struggle for votes from Valley State College through a San Francisco fundraising dinner to Paul Newman's Beverly Hills backyard 136 00:12:28.560 --> 00:12:31.300 and backstage at the Joey Bishop show. 137 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:42.280 I never felt that I really had the right to say I would quit under any circumstances. 138 00:12:42.560 --> 00:12:51.260 I never really thought my candidacy was a personal one, which I could either take or let go if I was disposed to do that. 139 00:12:51.260 --> 00:12:58.860 I never looked upon it as something that relates particularly to what personal judgment I might make about my own future. 140 00:12:59.780 --> 00:13:05.120 I might say I'm surprised at how many people began to worry about my future when I said I was going to run. 141 00:13:06.400 --> 00:13:12.720 Rather touching response from a man who previously had never shown much interest in my career. 142 00:13:13.920 --> 00:13:20.140 Going back to 45, we urged the British to open Palestine to the refugees. 143 00:13:20.140 --> 00:13:33.500 Most of us know what the reason was. We were unwilling ourselves, as were the other countries of Europe, to really open their doors to immigration on the part of the Jewish refugees and expellees from the other countries. 144 00:13:33.940 --> 00:13:41.120 A kind of moral fault on our part, a weakness on our part, which was reflected in a demand or a request upon... 145 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:44.500 For both candidates, the grassroots had become a thicket. 146 00:13:44.500 --> 00:13:51.460 While the primaries dragged on, most people felt Hubert Humphrey was cornering Democratic Convention delegate votes. 147 00:13:53.040 --> 00:14:04.720 Kennedy up to this time had been running against Humphrey, but now since Oregon, he saw McCarthy as a more serious candidate and finally accepted McCarthy's challenge to debate. 148 00:14:06.620 --> 00:14:08.440 The debate turned into a conversation. 149 00:14:09.280 --> 00:14:17.940 The heavily contested Democratic race was taking all the headlines, but on the Republican side, Richard Nixon rolled on. 150 00:14:18.560 --> 00:14:37.600 We do believe that together as Republicans, we can present at Miami a platform that will find plenty of room for everybody to get on it, and at the same time, plenty of room for millions of Democrats to get on it, because they will realize that we offer the best hope for new leadership. That's what we want to do. 151 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:51.180 Good morning, Mr. Ball. I'm one of several hundred Nixon volunteers calling me here with other things today. We want to remind you to go to polls and vote for Mr. Nixon, along. Very good. That's what we like here. 152 00:14:52.400 --> 00:15:00.160 In an effort to sustain interest in his campaign, he ran a series of telethons and found himself answering the same old questions. 153 00:15:02.300 --> 00:15:09.400 They've said about everything they can about me. I didn't think they were going to try to pull that over on my down. Now let's get one thing very clear. 154 00:15:09.920 --> 00:15:20.500 As a congressman, as a senator, as vice president of the United States, as a candidate for president, I supported Social Security. I supported the increases in Social Security. 155 00:15:20.500 --> 00:15:31.660 I supported the legislation in the Eisenhower administration in which we extended Social Security coverage to millions who hadn't had it previously. I supported it then. I support it now. 156 00:15:31.700 --> 00:15:39.860 New York Governor Rockefeller had come into the race too late to enter the primaries, but a write-in campaign was conducted on his behalf. 157 00:15:41.680 --> 00:15:50.860 California's Governor Reagan continuously disavowed his candidacy, but films were shown and a TV campaign conducted in Oregon. 158 00:15:53.760 --> 00:15:58.740 Kennedy was only one generation removed from the infighting of Irish ward politics in Boston. 159 00:16:06.900 --> 00:16:16.600 For a man of great wealth, he had an appeal to all sorts of Americans. In some sole way, he communicated with the outsiders in American life. 160 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:25.540 His largest and most enthusiastic crowds were in the lower income wards of Gary and Indianapolis, Omaha and Los Angeles. 161 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:39.560 Kennedy, I think, represents in the mind of a lot of black people essentially the epitome of success. He's rich. He has a lot of children. He's a lot of things that anyone would want to be. 162 00:16:39.820 --> 00:16:46.200 And that image itself is one reason why people would vote for him, especially poor people. 163 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:59.520 He had gone into the barrios and ghettos and into the Indian reservations. Long before the California primary, he had met with Cesar Chavez and the Grape Strikers, the agricultural workers of the San Joaquin Valley. 164 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:14.920 One reason why Kennedy has a special appeal over McCarthy is that Kennedy, for the Latin people, he has just that charismatic appeal to the people as a very wonderful human being that comes across. 165 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:21.720 Jack Kennedy represented hope for our community, and I think that that feeding carries over to Bob Kennedy as well. 166 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:33.820 When the chips were down, the guy who came forward to help out Cesar Chavez and symbolically to help out the entire Mexican-American community, that man was Kennedy. 167 00:17:33.820 --> 00:17:41.000 Today you have 80% of the Mexican-Americans living in the urban setting and only 20% in the rural. 168 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:51.660 But because we all came from the land, the country, so recently, our ties are very close there. And it's feeding close to the earth, I guess. 169 00:17:51.660 --> 00:18:05.800 Latin people are very emotional. When they like somebody, they show it. He was at the farmer market and there were 50,000 people there, and everybody, they like the man and they show it. 170 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:15.180 They want to touch him, you know, and all that. I don't know how he can go through those things. It was pretty hard for him. 171 00:18:15.180 --> 00:18:25.620 You know, I've seen it before on TV and it's not so bad, but here I saw how the people were getting to him, you know, and he must be in very good shape to stand there. 172 00:18:26.420 --> 00:18:33.740 I wish that people were more dignified, you know, but it's not that they're undignified, it's that they really like the man, you know. 173 00:18:42.260 --> 00:18:51.280 George Bernard Shaw once wrote, that some people see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not. 174 00:18:56.760 --> 00:19:09.940 He's very careful. Get the gun. Get the gun. Get the gun. Stay away from the gun. Stay away from the gun. His hand is frozen. Get his thumb. Get his thumb. 175 00:19:09.940 --> 00:19:20.820 Get his thumb. Get his thumb and break it if you have to. Get his thumb. Get away from the barrel. Get away from the barrel, man. 176 00:19:24.380 --> 00:19:33.820 Look out for the gun. Okay. All right. That's it, Rayford. Get it. Get the gun, Rayford. 177 00:19:34.840 --> 00:19:41.820 Okay, now hold on to the guy. Hold on to him. Hold on to him, ladies and gentlemen. They have the gun away from the man. 178 00:19:43.380 --> 00:19:49.780 In this shot, they've got the gun. I can't see, I can't see the man. I can't see who it is. 179 00:19:50.560 --> 00:20:04.160 Senator Kennedy right now is on the ground. He has been shot. This is a, this is, what is it? Wait a minute. Hold him. Hold him. Hold him. 180 00:20:06.120 --> 00:20:11.520 We don't want another Oswald. Hold him, Rayford. We don't want another Oswald. 181 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:25.440 When I last appealed to the Congress on this subject again, and that was only a month ago, I asked this question. 182 00:20:26.600 --> 00:20:36.680 What in the name of conscience will it take to pass a truly effective gun control law? 183 00:20:41.940 --> 00:20:56.980 It will be remembered simply as the good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. 184 00:20:58.340 --> 00:21:11.900 Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will someday come to pass for all the world. 185 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:31.820 As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him, some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not. 186 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:08.560 Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not 187 00:22:15.340 --> 00:22:22.300 The nation, stunned, licked its wounds over a long weekend, then returned to what we call normal. 188 00:22:22.900 --> 00:22:26.240 The peace talks continued in Paris and the war went on in Vietnam. 189 00:22:26.840 --> 00:22:32.120 De Gaulle was in trouble in France and the students had brought about a thaw in Czechoslovakia. 190 00:22:32.820 --> 00:22:37.680 Columbia University was settling down, but now there was more trouble at Berkeley. 191 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:52.260 The candidates emerged. Vice President Humphrey stood his ground, refused to criticize the administration on Vietnam. 192 00:22:53.280 --> 00:22:59.880 While Kennedy and McCarthy had been mixing it up in the primaries, Humphrey had drawn on his years of party loyalty, 193 00:23:00.500 --> 00:23:04.840 moved among delegates at state conventions and Democratic Party caucuses. 194 00:23:04.840 --> 00:23:09.800 Statistics and commentators said he was a shoe-in for the coming convention nomination. 195 00:23:12.560 --> 00:23:14.640 Richard Nixon took the statesman's stance. 196 00:23:15.060 --> 00:23:20.100 Let's make that very clear. We have a united front on negotiation in Paris now. 197 00:23:20.180 --> 00:23:23.900 I'm not going to open a second front here politically in the United States of America. 198 00:23:23.980 --> 00:23:29.460 Every poll among Republican delegates showed Nixon well in the lead for his party's nomination. 199 00:23:30.100 --> 00:23:37.440 Governor Rockefeller had to prove that he had the support of other than party politicians, for he had few of them. 200 00:23:39.980 --> 00:23:45.840 Since his March 31st announcement, President Johnson had been preoccupied with foreign policy, 201 00:23:46.360 --> 00:23:52.840 the Paris peace talks and a nuclear treaty with the Russians, but now and then turned up at party meetings. 202 00:23:52.840 --> 00:23:59.920 I just do enjoy coming to party dinners because I used to be in politics myself. 203 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:04.680 Rockefeller considers himself an independent, a thorn in the flesh of both parties. 204 00:24:05.060 --> 00:24:11.580 Former governor of Alabama, he seemed assured of southern support and nobody could guess how many votes in the north. 205 00:24:12.120 --> 00:24:19.040 If I get 34% of the vote in Illinois and the other two national parties get 33 apiece, 206 00:24:19.040 --> 00:24:26.380 then I win all the electoral vote of Illinois and I got 34% of the primary vote in Wisconsin four years ago. 207 00:24:28.300 --> 00:24:33.880 Senator McCarthy, the perpetual underdog, had built an outsider's kind of political machine. 208 00:24:34.620 --> 00:24:38.580 What about these young people? What about this children's crusade? 209 00:24:39.260 --> 00:24:45.920 Though each candidate had youthful supporters, it was McCarthy's young people who had captured the nation's imagination. 210 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:49.900 This is the greatest manpower movement in the history of the country, you know, 211 00:24:50.040 --> 00:24:55.440 and they've done it themselves. Other young people have handled the logistics of this. 212 00:24:55.880 --> 00:25:01.300 They were told to bring a sleeping bag and you might, it may cost you about five or six dollars. 213 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:07.120 All they did was provide the bus and possibly a place to sleep, which was even then undecided. 214 00:25:07.120 --> 00:25:10.880 Turned out that it was a warehouse or something that they stayed at, but that's all we were promised. 215 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:15.940 I mean it was, if we went, then we went because we really wanted to help. 216 00:25:16.060 --> 00:25:21.520 I knew that they were wanting something or at least needing something by way of an outlet in the political field, 217 00:25:21.700 --> 00:25:28.360 but I had no idea that their response would be what it has been because this is really unprecedented. 218 00:25:28.660 --> 00:25:32.660 They've been involved in other campaigns, but never this kind of dedication. 219 00:25:32.760 --> 00:25:38.720 Some had been added since January and before. A few had moved from volunteers to poorly paid professionals. 220 00:25:39.520 --> 00:25:46.060 Others worked only on weekends in between exams. They had huddled on college campuses and in hotel ballrooms, 221 00:25:46.580 --> 00:25:53.640 buttonhole politicians and voters, and walked strange streets and seen more of America than most of their elders. 222 00:25:59.620 --> 00:26:01.280 They had savored victory. 223 00:26:07.300 --> 00:26:09.460 And they had tasted defeat. 224 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:22.400 So much money is spent if the money just spent in one day Vietnamese situation was used in one year. 225 00:26:22.900 --> 00:26:26.420 On the poverty project, people wouldn't have to worry about riots in the cities. 226 00:26:26.600 --> 00:26:29.480 There would be no riots in the cities. What would people have to riot about? 227 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:31.260 You don't riot when you know you're in the city. 228 00:26:31.260 --> 00:26:35.580 You know that your children are going to get a good education when you know that you don't have to live in a ghetto. 229 00:26:36.020 --> 00:26:38.600 They had taken the measure of their times and their candidate. 230 00:26:39.220 --> 00:26:46.200 The news isn't tossing them out quite so readily. They've been picked out quite a few times already this year, you know. 231 00:26:46.900 --> 00:26:53.740 I've heard a couple of newsmen say, man, this is really the year for the media people because 232 00:26:53.740 --> 00:26:57.180 everything they've predicted has gone exactly the opposite so far. 233 00:26:58.580 --> 00:27:05.980 All the way from New Hampshire with the McCarthy campaign and President Johnson withdrawing and 234 00:27:05.980 --> 00:27:08.240 have a dozen other things in other areas too. 235 00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:14.320 Everybody, everything they seem to come up with goes the other way, which is kind of cute. 236 00:27:14.420 --> 00:27:16.480 Now if they keep predicting against us, maybe we'll win. 237 00:27:16.760 --> 00:27:20.200 Did you see the night that Johnson declared that, you know, he wasn't going to run? 238 00:27:20.540 --> 00:27:25.320 And that night, Ellie Abel was talking to McCarthy for about half an hour afterwards. 239 00:27:25.320 --> 00:27:29.680 And at the end he says, well, thank you very much, Senator Kennedy. 240 00:27:31.680 --> 00:27:36.560 Both of them just cracked up. The cameraman cracked up. The cameras are all over the place. 241 00:27:36.700 --> 00:27:38.400 That was really so funny. 242 00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:44.760 I think we're attempting to really change the society to face up to what it's been teaching. 243 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:50.520 Because a lot of people, you know, are very idealistic and they should be and then suddenly 244 00:27:50.520 --> 00:27:56.140 realize that nothing's that way. And there should be a way of going through life or retaining your 245 00:27:56.140 --> 00:28:00.840 ideals, still being able to be mature and idealistic at the same time. 246 00:28:01.160 --> 00:28:06.900 As convention days drew near, the scene changed to an old-fashioned intra-party haggling for 247 00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:14.100 delegates. But by the 4th of July, it was clear that no professional politician of either party 248 00:28:14.100 --> 00:28:19.880 could go to the convention without reckoning with these young people in their new politics of 249 00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:21.120 1968.