50 years ago Robert Kennedy was killed, the event that changed America's history

Just moments after winning the preliminary elections in California, which many said had paved the way for ensuring his party's appointment, at the time as the democratic candidate for presidential elections, Robert F. Kennedy was killed. His death, two months after Martin Luther King's murder, left deep wounds that have left him behind today, after 50 years in the United States.

1968 was a turbulent year. A year shaken by war in Vietnam, racial protests and the murder of Martin Luther King, a civilian rights icon.

The “we who lived in 1968, remember the madness, dreams and anxieties of that time. I'd like to repeat, we've lived with anxiety,”- says historian David Nassau.

As of June, Robert Kennedy, who at one point offered a light of hope to many Americans, was also killed just two months after announcing his candidacy for president.

I don't run for president just to counter another candidate, but to propose new policies” said Kennedy.

Robert Kennedy was bringing about a wave of changes, supporting civil rights, campaigning against poverty, and speaking out against the war in Vietnam.

“I hope both sides will try to end the murders as soon as possible,”- Robert Kennedy said.

“Fifty years ago, in view of racial tensions, the idea of blacks thinking that a white politician was good was truly an achievement” says the author of Kennedy's biography, Larry Tie.

Larry Tye adds that Kennedy was building a coalition of racial diversity, middle class Americans, liberals, youth and minority supporters.

He was uniting the different American currents. He was doing something that no other politician has done in the last 50 years, telling people the unpleasant truths that they didn't want to hear.” says Larry Tye.

This generation couldn't create most of the conditions that have brought us here today. But it has the responsibility to solve them. ”- said Kennedy.

On June 6, 1968, Senator Kennedy's targets had a tragic end.

His murder ended several hopes for the future. Many youths, who are no longer young today, gave up their ideals. They could see the Promised Land taken away from him. Among them were white and black, who believed in the change of”, says historian Nassau.

Republican Nixon won the presidential election. The Vietnam War would continue for another seven years.

I think Bobby would have been the democratic candidate for the 1968 election, and I am convinced he would have won the election. I have the conviction that America would then have become a different country. And today, 50 years from now, maybe we wouldn't have faced the same issues of racial division, poverty and all the problems that irritate us, if we had started dealing with them since 1968,”- says Kennedy's biography.

After his New York funeral, Senator Kennedy's body was taken by train to Washington D.C., while about 2 million people stood along the tracks all the way in respect of him.

It was a moment of unity, but the social and political divisions against which Kennedy fought would continue for years. VOA