RFK Campaign spots
RFK Campaign spots
Robert F. Kennedy for President TV Campaign Spots (1968) - DO NOT USE still photos
RFK Campaign spots
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."
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01.31.32 Indiana Campaign ad - Robert Kennedy speaking with workers, says "We want less government control, not more government control."
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01.32.49 Indiana 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. Robert Kennedy says "I think it's important that you (the farmer) do well, if you do well in Indiana, if the farmer does well in Indiana, we're going to do better in New York, they're going to do better in the East, they're going to do better in the West, we are dependent on one another."
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01.34.05 Campaign ad - School children seated in library with Robert Kennedy speaking to children. Young boys asks "How much help do you think the federal government should be give to the schools? 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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01.35.17 Indiana 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."
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01.36.29 Campaign ad - Back view of Robert Kennedy speaking to crowd outside. Various shots of people listening to Robert Kennedy who says "If you look over the period of the last 30 years we've relied chiefly and primarily on government, on Washington. I think we need to have a new philosophy, what was acceptable in the 1930's and what we needed in the 1930's dealt with some of those problems, and the same for the 1940's and the 1950's and the early 1960's. Whether it be the new deal or the fair deal or the days of President Eisenhower, or the new frontier onto President John Kennedy. They dealt with some of the problems, but we have new problems. And what their solutions or their answers are not necessarily applicable to this day and age. So, we don't rely just on government. We're not relying just on 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."
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01.37.41 Indiana 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."
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01.38.25 Indiana 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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01.39.37 Indiana 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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01.40.49 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."