"The Crowds Who Came Out to Witness Kennedy's Body Being Carried to Its Grave"

"In 2018, looking back at those images, as the train approaches the terminal and the light begins to fade, you realize that you are watching the final hours of the great Democratic coalition that had dominated American politics since the election of Franklin Roosevelt, in 1932—the coalition that would fracture six months later with the election of Richard Nixon, and which is now as dead as Robert Kennedy."

Louis Menand at The New Yorker discusses the San Francisco Museum of Art's exhibit "The Train: RFK's Last Journey."