Paul Fusco RFK Funeral Train. U.S.A. 1968.
“I took this photograph from the train that brought Robert F. Kennedy’s remains from New York to Washington, D.C. The train tracks were lined with up to two millio
(...) n people who came to witness the passage. The crowd represented all kinds of Americans; Bobby Kennedy’s fight for racial reconciliation made him, to many, ‘the most trusted white man in black America’. The people in this photograph had a meaningful connection with Kennedy and an appreciable reason to build a sign, stand in the heat and say goodbye to the man who had once offered them hope.”
– Paul Fusco © Paul Fusco | Magnum Photos
