What was the first political event (not protest) that you attended involving The Democratic Party...

[Genki Hikari]

68. I was only six that year

So I'm not always sure what memories go where.

But I can place the HQ memory because all the stuff said 1968 or '68 on it.

The other memory is of all of us getting up one morning right after school let out, turning on the TV for the Today show, and hearing that awful news about RFK's assassination. One of the black women from a nearby farm had dropped by to pick up some day work, and she, screamed, "Lord have mercy, they've killed him, too!"

And then all of the adults were screaming and crying enough to wake the dead. My mother is the excitable type, but my grandparents were NOT the kind of people who showed extreme emotions. So it was scary to see them act like that. Other people that the TV said had died, they kept that old stiff upper lip, but for them to be so upset about this one person dying? I knew that meant it was a bad thing. A really bad thing.