I Dream of Things that Never Were and Ask Why Not

A variety of writing remember Robert F. Kennedy, who died forty years ago today:

In The New York Times, three of Kennedy's children recall their father.

Richard Valles in The New York Times recalls attending a speech during the 1968 presidential campaign.

David Greenberg in Slate depicts how Sen. Eugene McCarthy reacted to Kennedy's assassination.

David L. Ulin in the Los Angeles Times reviews Thurston Clarke's The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America, Bill Eppridge's A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties, and Robert Blair Kaiser's 'R.F.K. Must Die!': Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination.

And James Stevenson in The New York Times recollects RFK's funeral train.