Mourning Bobby Kennedy

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Mourning Bobby Kennedy

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We're taking a little break over the holidays to look back on some of the best Retropod episodes from 2018. Today, we look back on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

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Jan 1, 2019

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The glass ceiling: In 1978, Marilyn Loden coined a phrase that paints very image that women have been fighting for decades. by Retropod
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The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon: In October 1967, antiwar protesters announced that they would march en masse to the front steps of the Pentagon. and levitate it. And then they would try to levitate it. by Retropod
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