When Kennedy came to Kentucky: the two-day "RFK in EKY" holds a mirror up to the promise of the War on Poverty.(Robert F. Kennedy)
American Theatre, July, 2004 by Burnham, Linda Frye
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WHILE THE TET OFFENSIVE RAGED IN VIETNAM in February 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was on the mountain roads of southeastern Kentucky, shaking hands and setting fire to hearts from Vortex to Prestonsburg. Conducted as part of a Senate Subcommittee on Manpower, Employment and Poverty examination of War on Poverty practices, RFK's Appalachian tour occurred one week before he announced his candidacy for President.
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A few months later he would be dead. But his visit touched off what the mountain people still call "a ripple of hope" that empowered them to take their future into their ...
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