“The yippies may nominate a 300-pound pig for president. His program is garbage. After nomination we will eat him and become the candidate. The only answer to an absurd system is absurdity and laughter, followed by anger, and then absurdity and laughter”
Originally published March 21, 1968
“The murder of RFK left a void. No one came after him who could speak simultaneously for the unemployed black teenager and the white worker trapped in a dead-end job and feeling misunderstood”
Originally published March 8, 1988
“We didn't know until later that the Van Nuys cops had received a call from some terrified citizen saying that his brother was going to shoot Kennedy”
Originally published May 23, 1968
“Kennedy’s face had a kind of sweet acceptance to it, the eyes understanding that it had come to him, the way it had come to so many others before him. The price of the attempt at excellence was death”
July 1, 2020
On June 5, 1968, Voice writer Pete Hamill was only a few feet away when RFK was shot. Hamill wrote about the experience for the following issue.
June 6, 2018
Many people, including several Voice writers, were skeptical when Robert F. Kennedy came to New York to run for Senate. But soon everyone warmed up to the future presidential candidate.
June 6, 2018