What If Robert F. Kennedy Had Become President?
A new Netflix documentary about his 1968 campaign and assassination seems to ask that question.
by Sophie Gilbert
Apr 30, 2018
4 minutes
The most surprising thing about , a new four-part documentary that debuted Friday on Netflix, is how every frame of archival footage of Robert Kennedy seems to feature a hundred people trying to touch him. As he tours different neighborhoods in New York, a sea of hands reaches out to make contact. During one drive through a campaign stop, a newscast reports, “he was touched, trapped, and at one point torn from his car.” A woman being interviewed about Kennedy in Kentucky says, “I’d just love to lay my hand on him.” There’s something about his presence that seems to justify, even demand, connection.
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