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View Full Version : Last Sunday's NYT--the view from RFK's funeral train


TerzaRima
06-03-2008, 10:41 PM
In this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, there was a series of photographs taken from the train that carried Robert Kennedy's body from New York to Washington. It is estimated that a million people lined the tracks to say goodbye.

The pictures show mostly poor people, black and white, at unguarded moments. Most of them are carefully dressed--I don't know if that was the times, of if it was a sign of respect for Bobby. All of them look bereft. I've never seen photographs like this.

If you don't get the Times, go to the website--you can view the pictures as a slideshow. The photographer's name is Paul Fusco.

johnnysannie
06-04-2008, 01:24 AM
People did dress better then than now; much less casual. For the most part, I would say that it was the time.