Video: 'April RDTV Part One The 1968 Oregon Primary' (May 26, 1968, at 19:09)

(Sunday, May 26, 1968; during the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1968) — Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Eugene McCartney, both campaigning for Oregon’s May 28, 1968, Democratic presidential primary, came within about 50 feet of each other today at the Portland Zoo.

When Kennedy, who had declined to engage McCarthy in debate, drove away from the area, some in the crowd called “Coward, coward, coward!”