In this final episode of Season 1 of The Almost Presidents Podcast, co-hosts Ryan and Kevin finish telling the story of Robert F. Kennedy's run for President in 1968 and its tragic conclusion. 

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After winning the Indiana Primary in the wake of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the RFK campaign moves on to primaries in Nebraska and Oregon. Facing off against Eugene McCarthy and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Bobby is suddenly confronted by a decision he made as Attorney General unearthed by J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson in order to damage him politically and hopefully take him out of the race. 

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The campaign rolls into California with much fanfare, RFK assuming what some journalists have nicknamed his "fifth Beatle persona." When the votes are in, RFK and his campaign staff learn that he has won both the South Dakota and California primaries. Celebration ensues at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. But waiting patiently is the man who will soon put an end to Bobby Kennedy's life. 

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Then, in the wake of RFK's assassination, a shocked America, many of whom joined him in his vision to "dream of things that never were and say, why not?" are left heartbroken and confused. What results is an outpouring of love and a lasting hope that America will one day become the land that Bobby dreamed it would be. 

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