![]() ![]() The Senator exited the hotel through the kitchen, Andrew West followed. He was following Senator Kennedy out of the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Radio newsman Andrew West was covering the California Primary for the Mutual Broadcasting System. ![]() I am right here Raefer Johnson has a hold of a man who apparently has fired the shot."Īnnouncer: United Press International’s review of the news of 1968 will continue after this message. Senator Kennedy has been shot and another man, a Kennedy Campaign Manager impossibly shot in the head. Unknown Speaker: "President Kennedy has been shot, is that possible? Is that possible? It's pathetic. A year during which he hoped to become the next President of the United States. Accordingly, I shall not see and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your President."Īnnouncer: Uplifted by the Johnson announcement, Robert Kennedy set out to make 1968 his most trying year. Lyndon Baines Johnson: "I do not believe that I should devote an hour or day of my time to any personal partisan causes. But it was overshadowed 15 days later when another man informed the country of his decision regarding the presidency. The Kennedy announcement was a political surprise. Kennedy reassessed his position and entered the 1968 race for President. And it’s one of the reasons I wanted to preserve the moment-it was ours, it existed and it was super fun.Unknown Speaker: "I am announcing today my candidacy of the presidency of the United States."Īnnouncer: After Eugene McCarthy shows strength in New Hampshire Primary, Senator Robert F. It’s something you can’t hold onto, which makes it really cool. What’s great about MTV is that it belongs to whatever generation is the steward at the time. But the more I talk to people about the 90s, they really long for it in a different way. “At the time, I didn’t watch it much because I just didn’t have the time so I had no idea of the context or the impact. “For people who grew up watching MTV, that was the only place to go,” Kennedy said. She always kept a journal, but says some of the events she wrote about were so impactful that she still has vivid memories of them. Kennedy, now a morning radio show host on an alternative rock station in Los Angeles (she's also worked as a correspondent on John Stossel's Fox Business show) decided the timing was right to commit her memories to paper because of a general wistfulness for the 90s permeating today’s culture. People say to me, ‘What if your daughters read this book?’ And I say, ‘My daughters are going to read this and the man who actually gets it is their dad! He was the one that made me feel at home and loved and he’s awesome.’” “I come from a very long line of very superstitious Romanian women who hold on to their chastity probably way too long. “Part of it was a deep-seated fear that God was going to strike me dead,” Kennedy said. That honor eventually went to former professional snowboarder Dave Lee to whom she’s been married 13 years. In her book she shares stories of make-out sessions that led to oral sex and that Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction almost became her first lover. She maintained her virginity but does not claim to have lived the life of an angel. If nothing else, Kennedy’s stints as a resident in MTV’s notoriously promiscuous summer beach houses would have hampered any political ambitions. I wasn’t going to run for office any time soon.” They knew that at heart I was a total jackass. “Later on, there was more specific wording as to what I was allowed to do in public and the press. “In the beginning MTV was totally cool,” she said. The scene was reported in The Washington Post, and soon Kennedy was discussing her political views on “The Tonight Show.” (Kennedy has long identified as a Libertarian, after discovering that socially she and the Republican Party are worlds apart). Initially Kennedy tried to keep her political views a secret, but all was revealed when she attended an inaugural ball where she met guitarist John McLaughlin and his companion Martha Stewart and proceeded to hike up her evening gown to show him the pink GOP elephant tattoo she had inked on her pelvis. The intersection between influence and trust definitely took shape during the President Clinton’s first election, where Kennedy found herself as the only conservative working at the network that helped galvanize the youth vote. ![]()
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