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Campaign ad - small brown haired boy pulling pull toys up the steps of the Supreme Court building, (toy bus, tied to toy car and toy boat)
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - Astronaut wearing suit John Glen says "I think for one thing the young people are maturing earlier and they certainly have a better education at an earlier age." Continues "I think we all like to think we'll leave the world a better place then it was when we got here, that we'll have a better country and a better ability to cope with our future, whatever that may hold, and we hope to pass onto our children that better ability and leave the world a better place than what we found it. I think Robert Kennedy is the man that right now, that best guarantees that approach to the future, where we are going to solve some of these problems, we're not going to just let them drift along. He's going to solve some of these things, work on them, assemble the best teams he possibly can to approach these problems, and this is the best guarantee I could have for my children for the future I feel."
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy speaking with workers. Says "We're going to have law and order in the United States. That's what we have to establish, we won't tolerate lawlessness and violence and disorder, it destroys the very fabric of our country. Secondly, people are going to be treated with justice, and that a man has the opportunity to obtain a job and has an opportunity to obtain decent housing, and I don't mean just more federal programs, but I believe by bringing in the private sector in a major way, giving tax incentives for instance for a business such as this if they would locate a new plan in an area of rural unemployment or in a city to take people off welfare and hire them instead, would save the taxpayer money and it would also give them dignity to a man, that's what I believe."
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - Small boy walking up the steps of the Supreme Court dragging pull toys (bus, car, boat all tied together).
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - School children seated in library with Robert Kennedy speaking to children says "Otherwise we're going to destroy the individuality of our country, just make it a monolithic system in which everybody lives exactly the same as everybody else, we all live in the same kind of communities and all the same kind of apartments and all go to the same kind of factories and all come home at the same time at night. There are things that we can do, it's just a question whether we're willing to do them or not, and it seems to me that we should be willing to do them. And we shouldn't be paving over all the United States, knocking down the redwoods, knocking down our forests and these things are terribly important to be preserved. These are things that should be preserved for you and for the next generation of Americans, and the fact is that we are going to lose them unless we do something about them."
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy speaking to school children in library. Robert Kennedy speaking about poverty says "There is a lot of poverty you don't see or hear so much about which is in the rural areas of the country and I think the government can play a role in that, but I think also private industry can play an important role and I think there has to be a partnership of private industry and government. It's the kind of partnership that doesn't exist at the moment, and that we are going to put in effect programs which will have some effect on their lives, namely so people can find jobs and so they'll have some control over their own future, and they'll have some say in their future."
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy speaking with workers, says "We want less government control, not more government control."
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy seated with women in living room of house, talking about preserving the "family farm" for the next generation, giving farmers the right to bargain.
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Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy speaking with children in library. Young boys asks "How much help do you think the federal government should be give to the school? Robert Kennedy responds "I think the federal government can't take over direction or control, but it can help in the construction of facilities and taxes are so terribly high in some areas that it's difficult for improvements to take place. Some areas of the United States taxes have gone up 300 % over the period of the last few years just because education is so much more expensive, and I think that the federal government can help a lot." RFK tells the children "You have the greatest stake in the future, the least ties to the past."
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Campaign ad - Back view of Robert Kennedy speaking to crowd outside says "We can not separate ourselves, no matter where we live from the problems and the troubles and the difficulties that face the whole of the United States, and I talk about now about the violence and the lawlessness and the disorder. I don't think that we have to accept the idea that summer after summer we're going to have violence. I don't think that we have to accept the idea that summer after summer we're going to have looting, and I don't think that we have to accept the idea that the stain of bloodshed is going to be ever across our country. Jefferson once said about the United States, that we were the last best hope of mankind, that's what I want the United States to be, this is a generous and compassionate country. That's what I want this country to stand for, not violence, not lawlessness, not disorder, but compassion and love and peace. That's what this country should stand for and that's what I intend to do if I'm elected President."
RFK Campaign spots
Robert F. Kennedy for President TV Campaign Spots (1968) - DO NOT USE still photos
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Campaign ad - Back view of Robert Kennedy speaking to crowd outside. Various shots of people listening to Robert Kennedy who says "We're not relying on just Washington. We don't centralize all authority and all government and all ways of life, just in Washington. That we decentralize it and return government and the control of government to the people themselves."
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - Back view of Robert Kennedy speaking to crowd outside. Robert Kennedy speaking about welfare says "I think we have to move beyond the question of welfare in so many areas of the United States. I think welfare is demeaning and destructive of the human being and of his family. But, instead of welfare, instead of a hand out, what we need in the United States is to provide jobs for all of our people."
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - POV traveling shot driving along tree lined road, Robert Kennedy walking into house, shaking hands with older woman, speaking with women in living room about lowering property taxes.
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Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy talking with farmers says "I think we have to move away from welfare, and the dole and the hand out, the conditions are worse not better over the period of the last five years and so they're filled with despair, feel they have nothing to lose and then they turn to this lawlessness. It doesn't excuse it, but we can't tolerate it. I think we should bring in the private sector too in a more active way and not just have the federal government in Washington running it, bring in the private sector and decentralize it so that it's brought back to the people and not just have a program run out of Washington. I think that's true in all of these efforts, people themselves know better how to do things, then they do in Washington."
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Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy speaking to farmers says "I'm doing a tremendous amount just personally for the farmer with ten children, so...." (laughter) Various shots of farmers listening to RFK talking about the decrease in income for the farmer, and seeing children starving to death in the United States. RFK continues "Obviously, we can work out a system where you can produce these goods and those goods be made available to our own population."
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Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy seated with school children in library (voiceover says Robert Kennedy and some people who aren't registered this year) Robert Kennedy speaking to children says "It's suggested in the next several decades that people are going to start having to wear gas masks in New York City because the air's becoming so polluted. 750 pounds of refuse we breathe every year and the same thing is true to a lesser degree in cities all across the United States, that will spread to the rural areas as well unless we stop it. The things we can do about automobiles, there are laws that we can pass about dumping and throwing refuse in lakes and streams and into the air, otherwise were all going to have to live underground. Industry must do something and individual citizens and then the demand, the interest that all of you might take in it, and I think that's what's going to make the difference in this country."
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy walking with farmers on farm, shaking hands with farming families.
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy speaking with farmers, jokes about weather being Republicans fault.
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Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy with wife Ethel Kennedy (carrying flowers) exiting building, waving to crowd of people, High angle view of Robert Kennedy riding atop car, greeting people, boarded up building, Robert Kennedy placing wreath at Berlin Wall. Speaking into microphone (with the help of a translator) says "And the Soviet Union puts a wall up to keep their people in this workers paradise, and they march into Hungary as they did?" Kennedy continues "I appreciate your frankness, and I think you would expect the same form me, and you're going to get it." (laughter) Indiana campaign ad.
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - Small boy walking up the steps of the Supreme Court dragging pull toys (bus, car, boat all tied together).
RFK Campaign spots
Campaign ad - Small boy walking up the steps of the Supreme Court dragging pull toys (bus, car, boat all tied together).
RFK Q & A with Columbia University Students
Robert F. Kennedy walking into auditorium with wife Ethel Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy seen waiting for introduction. Mrs. Kennedy introduced, seated in the audience; she stands to be recognized. Young man introduces Robert F. Kennedy.
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01.27.00 Indiana Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy walking with farmers on Indiana farm, RFK shakes hands with farming families. RFK says "There has to be that understanding and explanation to those who live in cities of the importance of what you can contribute, that's what I've tried to do while I've been in the Senate." RFK continues "Obviously, we can work out a system where you can produce these goods and those goods be made available to our own population." Then speaks about "food for peace" program, foreign aid, crime and welfare. RFK says "I think we have to move away from welfare, and the dole and the hand out, the conditions are worse not better over the period of the last five years and so they're filled with despair, feel they have nothing to lose and then they turn to this lawlessness. It doesn't excuse it, but we can't tolerate it. I think we should bring in the private sector too in a more active way and not just have the federal government in Washington running it, bring in the private sector and decentralize it so that it's brought back to the people and not just have a program run out of Washington. I think that's true in all of these efforts, people themselves know better how to do things, then they do in Washington."