Survey said....
"Library could lose RFK papers; Family wants legacy honored" by Adam Clymer and Don Van Natta Jr., New York Times / July 12, 2011
WASHINGTON - As archivists prepare to make public 63 boxes of Robert F. Kennedy’s papers at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, his family members are considering moving them elsewhere because they believe that the presidential library has not done enough to honor the younger brother’s legacy.
It's very possible.
Many of the papers, dealing with Cuba, Vietnam, and civil rights, are classified as secret or top secret. There are also an additional 2,300 boxes covering every stage of Robert Kennedy’s life, including his years as a US senator and attorney general, most of which have been opened for research.
But....
“There is a very large building, and there is a remembrance of President Kennedy and there’s one for Senator Edward Kennedy,’’ said former representative Joseph P. Kennedy II, a son of Robert Kennedy, describing the presidential library that opened in 1979 and an adjacent construction site for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate. “But there is nothing out there for Robert Kennedy.’’
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Though some historians are eager to see the new documents, Thomas J. Putnam, the library director, sought to dim speculation that they contained historical bombshells. “I think they are going to be of high interest to researchers,’’ Putnam said, “but I don’t think that there is going to be anything that will completely change the stories that have been written by other historians.’’
And the narratives of conventional myth will continue and continue and continue....
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Related: Kennedy family at odds over Hyannis Port property
Compound fracture
Globe Spits on Kennedy Graves
What do expect, flowers?
For my part I see Bobby's death as the last of the three '60s killings as the end of hope in so many ways. The pain the man went through at the brutal loss of his beloved brother, and the things he saw in America as he traveled during the campaign connected that man to the average, ordinary citizen (unlike so many elites). The threat to the establishment that -- let's face it -- murdered his brother was immense, whether it be the threat to the Zionist lobby or an internal investigation into his brother's death.
"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." -- Robert F. Kennedy, June 5, 1968
Is it possible Bobby foresaw blogs?
"Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation ... It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
He said that in South Africa at the height of apartheid.
