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Cold Irish Revenge

November 21, 2024 – 6:27 pm

I can remember what I was wearing on November 22, 1963. A white shirt, sky blue tie, and dark navy trousers were the boy’s uniform at Our Lady of the Foothills south of the Neponset River. It was a beautiful autumn day. Then Mother Mary Superior spoke over the intercom and tearfully announced, “President Kennedy […]

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December 16, 1978 – East Village – Journal

March 23, 2024 – 8:59 am

A Pleasant Paradise 1963 Snipers murdered JFK 1968 A sniper kills Malcolm Luther King. Gunmen assassinate Malcolm X and RFK Out leaders dying before their time Before their replacements Richard Nixon betrayed the USA But kept coming back The Messiah of the Silent Majority Why did you live? When so many others died. Almost sixty […]

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We Miss You Bobby

June 6, 2021 – 5:56 pm

In the summer of 1966 I was standing with my father at the Lower Mills station outside of Boston. We were headed to work. A Mattapan-bound trolley stopped to let off a crowd. My father and I were mystified by the hubbub, until the trolley pulled away from the platform and we spotted Robert F. […]

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Sunny Cold And Loud

December 30, 2012 – 1:28 pm

Last night I went to bed at a decent hour. My eyes closed reading AMERICAN TABLOID by James Ellroy. He really hated the Kennedys and I dreamed about my meeting RFK at the Lower Mills trolley stop in 1966. JFK’s younger brother shook my hand with the a reincarnated firmness. I attempted to warn him […]

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BOBBY the movie

January 27, 2007 – 10:52 pm

In 1966 I was standing in the Lower Mills trolley station outside of Boston with my father. He was a staunch Republican from the State of Maine, but when a Mattapan-bound trolley stopped to let off Robert F Kennedy. Sensing an opportunity to meet the future my father rushed me over to RFK. The young NY senator […]

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