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The Train: RFK's Last Journey
On June 8, 1968, three days after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, a funeral train transported his remains from New York City to Washington, D.C. Paul Fusco was on board and took nearly one thousand photographs of the people who came to grieve and pay their respects along the tracks. Some of these images have now become iconic.
In 2014, Rein Jelle Terpstra set out to track down the photographs taken by these mourners. He collected hundreds of pictures.
In 2009, Philippe Parreno filmed a recreation of the train journey which, in his words, “shows the dead man’s point of view.”
Combining artistic, vernacular, historical, and contemporary perspectives, The Train presents three unique visions of this key moment in the history of the United States.
In 2014, Rein Jelle Terpstra set out to track down the photographs taken by these mourners. He collected hundreds of pictures.
In 2009, Philippe Parreno filmed a recreation of the train journey which, in his words, “shows the dead man’s point of view.”
Combining artistic, vernacular, historical, and contemporary perspectives, The Train presents three unique visions of this key moment in the history of the United States.
142 pages, Hardcover
First published November 15, 2000
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September 11, 2008
A good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
-Edward Kennedy, eulogy for Robert F. Kennedy
-Edward Kennedy, eulogy for Robert F. Kennedy
August 7, 2009
Gorgeous gorgeous book. The photographs are so affecting, and do something more than words of tribute could.
April 10, 2012
Amazing images - simultaneously emotionally evocative and high art. Couldn't put it down.
September 21, 2020
Paul Fusco died shortly before John Lewis, so these pictures were fresh in mind when the great Civil Rights leader left us. Taken from aboard the funeral train that bore Kennedy from New York to his burial in Arlington, these photos capture many of the people who lined the tracks to honor Kennedy. Individually and as a group, they make for a terrible beauty.
March 29, 2009
Kodachrome, 1968, and a nation full of emotion. Powerful stuff.
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