On
June 8th 1968 Look magazine photographer Paul Fusco travelled on the
train carrying Bobby Kennedy's body from his funeral in New York City to
Washington D.C, for burial in Arlington Cemetery. Fusco took around
1000 photos on the trip as hundreds of people lined the tracks to pay
their last respects. His images of white and African Americans standing
side by side to honor a politician who had done so much for civil rights
and racial equality are incredibly moving and amazingly all but two
remained unpublished for thirty years.
Watching Dawn Porter's meticulously crafted Netflix doc Bobby Kennedy For President made me realize how little I knew about
JFK's younger brother, whose assassination was almost as shocking as
that of his elder, more famous sibling.
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