Senator Robert Kennedy’s Funeral Train Passes Elkton

Late in the afternoon of June 8, 1968, the long-delayed funeral train carrying the body of Senator Robert F. Kennedy to Washington passed through Elkton. It was around 6 p.m. and the train was about 4-hours late. Larry Beers, a teenager, took his 8-mm home movie camera and captured the scene that hot June afternoon so long ago. Recently the footage, which had been unseen for nearly 50 years, was retrieved and Professor Rein Jelle Terpstra digitized the film. Here is Larry’s 3-minute film from Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/274153440?fbclid=IwAR2ux42FtK3tFodjNcyWm0huUDRSDczoAmNF5hSm0ivNtH4ZANhr0c0cY48

If the imbed isn’t working here’s a direct link to the video

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