- History's Newsstand Blog - http://blog.rarenewspapers.com -

Snapshot 1968… One of the more eerie ads we’ve seen…

The following snapshot comes from the Village Voice, Greenwich Village, New York, June 6, 1968 [1]. In a bizarre twist of fate which is a bit stranger than fiction, Robert (Bobby) Kennedy died this same day at the hand of an assassin, and although the coverage was not included since this issue had already been printed, the back page has an eerie ad soliciting help with his campaign which states: “ROBERT F. KENNEDY is alive and living in N.Y.” What could possibly have motivated the one placing this ad to include such wording?