Robert Kennedy campaigns in Eugene, Oregon area 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Apr 17 1968)


Video: 'KEVU April Part 2 1968 Oregon Primary RDTV' (Apr. 17, 1968, at 14:19)

(Wednesday, April 17, 1968; during the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1968) — Senator Robert F.Kennedy campaigned today in the Eugene-Springfield area for the state’s May 28, 1968, Democratic presidential primary.

Kennedy stopped at Mark’s Big M Shopping Center in Springfield, the Park View Terrace complex and the Celeste Campbell Senior Citizens Home in Eugene and a logging site near Marcola before delivering a speech on foreign policy in Portland in the evening.