Remembering RFK
It was hot and humid inside the 21-car train carrying the body of Robert F. Kennedy from New York City to Washington, D.C. Larry Altman in the Daily Breeze.
The air conditioning had failed and the 226-mile journey that should have taken three hours lasted a sweltering five, with the trip slowed by mourners lining the tracks to pay their respects to the presidential candidate assassinated in Los Angeles.
Darwin Horn remembers the trip like it was yesterday.
"There were millions of people alongside," recalled the Rolling Hills resident, a retired Secret Service agent who supervised protection for Ethel Kennedy and her family after her husband died on June 6, 1968 - 40 years ago this week.
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