RFK Campaign spots
RFK Campaign spots
Robert F. Kennedy for President TV Campaign Spots (1968) - DO NOT USE still photos
RFK Campaign spots
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.
RFK Campaign spots
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."
RFK Campaign spots
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."
RFK Campaign spots
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.
RFK Campaign spots
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).