The Assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy | Harold Hughes

In 1968, Governor Hughes decided to run for the U.S. Senate. When Robert Kennedy was assassinated in July, Hughes addressed reporters and spoke about the turmoil in the nation. “You can’t kill ideas and you can’t kill human rights. And that is what we were dealing with. Shooting the man didn’t remove the mission.” Harold Huges speaks about the national turmoil in the late 1960s during his time as a U.S. Senator.