This AP Wire Photo of U. S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy was taken at Camp David on Feb. 10, 1963. The caption with the photo reads:
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Thurmont, MD, Feb. 10 - - HIKING FEAT FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL. - - Attorney General Robert Kennedy relaxes in bedroom slippers last night at Camp David, near Thurmont, after a 50-mile hike from Washington. He started out with four Justice Department aides but they called it a day after about 30 miles. The 37 -year-old Attorney General stepped off the 50 miles in 17 hours, three hours less than the standard recently suggested by his brother, President Kennedy, as an ideal test for military personnel. In the foreground are his hiking shoes.
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First, this could never happen today unless there were a phalanx of Secret Service agents surrounding him, three ambulances and four black Suburbans following along, a couple of helicopters flying above the show, and two fighter jets bristling with armaments doing lazy circles just below the cloud ceiling. Second, his hiking shoes look suspiciously like regular street shoes. Today he would be wearing a sweatshirt showing some hiking shoe company logo and the shoes would be part of his own line of hiking shoes, available in stores across the nation.
Those certainly were different and tragically naive times! Unfortunately, those times changed forever with the death of President John Kennedy just 10 months later on Nov. 22, 1963. Of course, we also remember the tragic death of then Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy five years later on June 5, 1968.
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Thurmont, MD, Feb. 10 - - HIKING FEAT FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL. - - Attorney General Robert Kennedy relaxes in bedroom slippers last night at Camp David, near Thurmont, after a 50-mile hike from Washington. He started out with four Justice Department aides but they called it a day after about 30 miles. The 37 -year-old Attorney General stepped off the 50 miles in 17 hours, three hours less than the standard recently suggested by his brother, President Kennedy, as an ideal test for military personnel. In the foreground are his hiking shoes.
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First, this could never happen today unless there were a phalanx of Secret Service agents surrounding him, three ambulances and four black Suburbans following along, a couple of helicopters flying above the show, and two fighter jets bristling with armaments doing lazy circles just below the cloud ceiling. Second, his hiking shoes look suspiciously like regular street shoes. Today he would be wearing a sweatshirt showing some hiking shoe company logo and the shoes would be part of his own line of hiking shoes, available in stores across the nation.
Those certainly were different and tragically naive times! Unfortunately, those times changed forever with the death of President John Kennedy just 10 months later on Nov. 22, 1963. Of course, we also remember the tragic death of then Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy five years later on June 5, 1968.
