History Center exhibit to relive Bobby Kennedy’s memorable speech

History Center exhibit to relive Bobby Kennedy’s memorable speech: "History Center exhibit to relive Bobby Kennedy’s memorable speech
Published: January 28, 2011
Wilma Moore was a junior at Crispus Attucks High School when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. She


Robert F. Kennedy delivers the sad news about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to a crowd gathered on land that is now part of King Park in the Near Northside. The Democratic presidential candidate was in Indianapolis to campaign, and to help spur a local voter registration effort within the black community. (Photo from the Indianapolis Recorder Collection, Indiana Historical Society)
remembers all too well how the civil rights leader’s death devastated everyone in her school – and devastated the city’s entire African American community, as well.

What she doesn’t remember, however, is hearing about Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy’s role in assuring that the devastating news didn’t turn into violent response, as it did in other American cities."