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11 “waves of the nation’s poor and disinherited”: Drew Dellinger, “The Last March of Martin Luther King Jr.,” Atlantic, April 4, 2018.
12 “Mississippi’s hungry children”: Tye, Bobby Kennedy, 350.
13 “find him growing and changing”: Ted Sorensen, “RFK Assassination: Aide Recalls Tragedy Repeated” and “Excerpt: ‘Counselor,’” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, June 5, 2008.
14 “a petulant baseball player”: Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (New York: Henry Holt, 2008), 13.
15 “Somewhere in this man sits good”: Joe Scarborough, “The Metamorphosis of the Ruthless Bobby Kennedy,” Washington Post, July 22, 2016.
16 “chances for a Kennedy dynasty”: “The Things Bobby Kennedy Said,” Esquire, June 5, 2018.
17 “a psychic violence about him”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 804.
18 Kennedy support declining: Saad, “Gallup Vault: A Look Back at Robert Kennedy.”
19 “adjectives and adverbs”: Sorensen, “RFK Assassination: Aide Recalls Tragedy Repeated.”
20 “there is enough to go around for all”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 336.
21 “how I felt about Vietnam and poor people”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 825.
22 “lesson of Emerson”: Jean E. Engelmayer, “The Pied Piper of Liberalism,” Crimson, May 20, 1983.
23 “no foreseeable circumstances”: Jeff Greenfield, “When Bobby Decided to Run,” Politico, March 17, 2018.
24 “Is my Daddy going to run for President?”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 857.
25 “Santa Claus in ’68”: Clarke, The Last Campaign, 31.
26 “Bobby had so much to give”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 316.
27 “My brother thinks I’m crazy”: Clarke, The Last Campaign, 37.
28 “follows his own instincts”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 846.
29 “For heaven’s sake, don’t marry him”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 12.
30 “at least I’m at peace with myself”: Clarke, The Last Campaign, 22.
31 “Bobby had an inferiority complex”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 510.
32 “actively reassessing the possibility”: Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (New York: Henry Holt, 2008), 36.
33 “day before St. Patrick’s Day”: Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings, 510.
34 “he didn’t deserve to be president anyway”: Evan Thomas, “The Worst Week of 1968,” Newsweek, November 11, 2007.
35 “The same thing that happened to Jack”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 857.
Chapter 30
1 “I don’t even think he heard the shot”: Bill Hutchinson, “At 86, Andrew Young Recalls Horror of Witnessing Moment Martin Luther King Jr. Was Assassinated in Memphis,” ABCNews.com, April 3, 2018.
2 “Martin, don’t leave us now”: Gilbert Baez, “Jesse Jackson Recalls Moment MLK Was Fatally Shot,” WRAL.com, April 4, 2018.
3 “Is this faith justified?” Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (New York: Henry Holt, 2008), 88.
4 “shot their spiritual leader”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, fortieth anniversary edition (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), 874.
5 “When is this violence going to stop?” Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 874.
6 “I don’t want any police going with me”: Clarke, The Last Campaign, 90.
7 “why does he have to come here?”: Clarke, 92.
8 “almost like a prayer”: Clarke, 90.
9 “full of anguish”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 874.
10 “nervous, self-deprecating jokes”: Schlesinger, 885.
11 “I feel in my own heart”: Schlesinger Jr., 874.
12 “every word out of his mouth was a balm”: Mary Evans, “I Was There for Robert Kennedy’s Electrifying Speech About MLK’s Murder,” History.com, April 20, 2018.
13 “He had empathy”: Michael S. Rosenwald, “‘That Stain of Bloodshed’: After King’s Assassination, RFK Calmed an Angry Crowd with an Unforgettable Speech,” Washington Post, April 4, 2018.
14 “sincerity of Bobby Kennedy’s words”: Liam Stack, “When Robert F. Kennedy Told an Indianapolis Crowd of King’s Assassination,” New York Times, April 4, 2018.
15 “I’ll help in any way I can”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 876.
16 “track down some twenty-two-year-old”: David Margolick, “Book Excerpt: After MLK Death, RFK ‘Poured His Heart Out,’” Reuters, March 29, 2018.
17 James Earl Ray arrest: Vincent Dowd, “When Martin Luther King Jr’s Assassin Fled to London,” BBC World Service, June 8, 2016.