Ambassador Hotel
DianeE
Junior replied "Ambassador Hotel." I thought it was just random rambling,
but this morning I suddenly thought maybe that's where Bobby *Kennedy* was
killed? Looked it up, and sure enough, that's what it was.
Did everybody else know this? I'm old enough to remember that assassination
(which came within a month of Martin Luther King's) but I'd forgotten that
particular detail.
All the more reason they should have ended with "Sympathy For The Devil."
"I shouted out, who killed the Kennedys/when everybody knows it was you and
me."
DianeE
byrdsfan
Such ramblings have been a running joke with Uncle June. It seemed in
an earlier show he was going to spill the beans on JFK.
The Arranger
I knew it immediately, but I'm 45 years old and a political junkie. My
wife was three when RFK was shot, and she pieced it together, which
surprised me.
The Arranger
Geoff
> It took almost 3 days for this to hit me. When Janice said "Bobby's
> dead," Junior replied "Ambassador Hotel." I thought it was just
> random rambling, but this morning I suddenly thought maybe that's
> where Bobby *Kennedy* was killed? Looked it up, and sure enough,
> that's what it was.
>
> Did everybody else know this? I'm old enough to remember that
> assassination (which came within a month of Martin Luther King's) but
> I'd forgotten that particular detail.
Good call!
Rev. Vegetable Lasagne
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Good catch! He was always a Kennedy fan
BAH
<Tired...@SorryFolks.com> wrote:
>It took almost 3 days for this to hit me. When Janice said "Bobby's dead,"
>Junior replied "Ambassador Hotel." I thought it was just random rambling,
>but this morning I suddenly thought maybe that's where Bobby *Kennedy* was
>killed? Looked it up, and sure enough, that's what it was.
>
>Did everybody else know this? I'm old enough to remember that assassination
>(which came within a month of Martin Luther King's) but I'd forgotten that
>particular detail.
Damn! Great catch! I'm old enough (barely) to remember RFK getting
shot, but don't remember details.
Sean Walsh
It was my understanding that the only reason anyone would remember the
Ambassador Hotel (which itself is now gone, torn down a year or 2 ago)
was because that's where RFK was murdered.
--
Sean
Dr_Tony_Falcon
Also, did you notice that when the Feds were at the funeral (watching
from the Van), the footage looked very much like Bobby Kennedy's
funeral?
DianeE
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> On Jun 13, 8:33 am, "DianeE" <TiredOfS...@SorryFolks.com> wrote:
> > It took almost 3 days for this to hit me. When Janice said "Bobby's
dead,"
> > Junior replied "Ambassador Hotel." I thought it was just random
rambling,
> > but this morning I suddenly thought maybe that's where Bobby *Kennedy*
was
> > killed? Looked it up, and sure enough, that's what it was.
> >
> > Did everybody else know this? I'm old enough to remember that
assassination
> > (which came within a month of Martin Luther King's) but I'd forgotten
that
> > particular detail.
> >
> > All the more reason they should have ended with "Sympathy For The
Devil."
> > "I shouted out, who killed the Kennedys/when everybody knows it was you
and
> > me."
> >
>
> from the Van), the footage looked very much like Bobby Kennedy's
> funeral?
Tell you the truth, all funerals look alike to me.
DianeE
John Doherty
> It took almost 3 days for this to hit me. When Janice said "Bobby's dead,"
> Junior replied "Ambassador Hotel." I thought it was just random rambling,
> but this morning I suddenly thought maybe that's where Bobby *Kennedy* was
> killed? Looked it up, and sure enough, that's what it was.
>
> Did everybody else know this?
I got it right away, but took it as a "throwaway line". It helped
define Junior's senility, though in the context of RFK, the mob was
probably dancing in the streets, as there was no love lost (as it was
Bobby who steered JFK to dump Frank Sinatra for his mob ties).
I was almost 12 when Bobby was shot. There was a movie that came out
last year with everyone in Hollywood at the Ambassador the night of the
shooting: "Bobby" I think.
Tom Mason
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Rich DellaRosa
Sean Walsh <sean...@gmail.com> wrote:
'Yes it was. But it was also where Lucy & Ricky stayed when they went
to California with Fred & Ethel and where the Wonders stayed in the film
That Thing You Do. :o)
Userb3
@trndny09:
> Did everybody else know this?
Pretty much.
--
Let the Religious Right Form Their Own Party!
http://www.gopchoice.org/
http://www.mypartytoo.com/
http://www.realrepublicanmajority.org/
Jami
> It took almost 3 days for this to hit me. When Janice said "Bobby's dead,"
> Junior replied "Ambassador Hotel." I thought it was just random rambling,
> but this morning I suddenly thought maybe that's where Bobby *Kennedy* was
> killed? Looked it up, and sure enough, that's what it was.
Yes. Gotta love Junior.
Jami
> 'Yes it was. But it was also where Lucy & Ricky stayed when they went
> to California with Fred & Ethel and where the Wonders stayed in the film
> That Thing You Do. :o)
The Oneders?
I liked that film much less than I wanted to.
Rev. Vegetable Lasagne
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Hmmm. Desi was a Cuban. Maybe he was involved....
PattyC
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> dead,"
> Junior replied "Ambassador Hotel." I thought it was just random rambling,
> but this morning I suddenly thought maybe that's where Bobby *Kennedy* was
> killed? Looked it up, and sure enough, that's what it was.
>
> Did everybody else know this?
**I had a 10 second delay, but then I knew/remembered.
PattyC
justanothe...@yahoo.com
You say you're pushing 60 and the Ambassador Hotel reference didn't
hit you immediately?
justanothe...@yahoo.com
> > Did everybody else know this? I'm old enough to remember that assassination
> > (which came within a month of Martin Luther King's) but I'd forgotten that
> > particular detail.
>
Actually, it was two months, you stupid cunt. (Hey, Beacon Mode uses
the word, so it must be OK)
DianeE
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>
> You say you're pushing 60 and the Ambassador Hotel reference didn't
> hit you immediately?
No. I kind of thought he got shot leaving a convention center after giving
a campaign speech. I remember a picture of him coming down a stairway, with
an entourage.
In those days you couldn't vote till you were 21, and I was 20. RFK was our
(NY) senator at that time. I had written him a letter protesting something
or other...some military action in the Dominican Republic, I think...and had
received a form letter back, but he actually signed it. Wish I still had
that letter now.
DianeE
justanothe...@yahoo.com
> <justanotheranonpos...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
I actually heaved a sigh of relief when I heard he was shot. I had
known of the Kennedy family's mob ties so I did not feel badly about
any of that family's misfortune.
DianeE
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*Two* months! Oh, I'm so ashamed.
Jami
> I didn't get it ('thought it was just the ramblings of an old man with
> dementia) until I saw it mentioned here. Made sense then. When Uncle
> Junior looked at the photo Janice showed him of her daughter, he said
> it was her when she was little, which would have fit the time period.
She left his oven on.
Rev. Vegetable Lasagne
intang...@yahoo.com
> It took almost 3 days for this to hit me. When Janice said "Bobby's dead,"
> Junior replied "Ambassador Hotel." I thought it was just random rambling,
> but this morning I suddenly thought maybe that's where Bobby *Kennedy* was
> killed? Looked it up, and sure enough, that's what it was.
Congratulations.
rock...@yahoo.com
> <justanotheranonpos...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
You supposedly were alive then, so you should have known the dates of
those key pieces of history.