In 1968, after the tragic assassination of his brother, New York Senator Robert Kennedy, as the people of this nation reeled from shock, Ted Kennedy delivered the eulogy at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
I was among the people who listened as he declared: “My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a 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.”
The Kennedy brothers had a special relationship with New York. I saw it in the eyes of thousands as they greeted presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in a ticker tape parade up lower Broadway in 1960. I marveled at the enthusiasm of the crowds as they surged around the open convertible bearing the couple. Clearly people related to this handsome, smiling young man and his beautiful wife. As they rode up the Canyon of Heroes, it was almost like we were witnessing the prelude to a coronation, as indeed it was.
Earlier I was with Jack Kennedy at a rally in the Bronx on Fordham Road and the Concourse when he told the crowd: “I come to the Bronx as an old Bronx boy. I used to live in the Bronx.”
Ted Kennedy: In His Own Words
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