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Short take: RFK prayer card

By John Dickerson

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Back of the prayer card handed out at Robert Kennedy's funeral.

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Front of RFK prayer card from his funeral.

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I was going through some papers and found the prayer card from Robert Kennedy's funeral in June 8th, 1968 which my mother attended. She had covered him as a reporter in Washington. The remarks on the back from the famous speech he gave after hearing the news of Martin Luther King's assassination touched some of the same notes sounded in the wake of the massacre in Charleston.

John Dickerson

John Dickerson is the anchor of "The Daily Report with John Dickerson," CBS News chief political analyst, senior national correspondent and a contributor to "CBS Sunday Morning." He also serves as an anchor of CBS News election coverage and political special reports.

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