60 years after famous JFK speech, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. returns to Salt Lake City
Most of the attendees at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential rally on Thursday afternoon arrived long before the candidate did. While attendees crammed into the Sky SLC nightclub in Salt Lake City, awaiting the rally’s start, Kennedy walked around downtown. Sixty years prior, his uncle — then-President John F. Kennedy — delivered a famous speech at the Tabernacle, the historic meeting hall on Temple Square. Kennedy’s 1963 speech, part of a tour through the western U.S., was considered by those in his inner circle to be among the best he...