(Source: Washington Post, June 7, 2013)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Penn Central train carrying Kennedy’s body would cut a swath through a small-town and largely rural America populated by people he had spoken passionately to, and about, during his 82-day campaign. Up to 2 million people lined the tracks to bear witness. Some who walked over to the tracks that day, like Malone, can take that same walk. And when they do, they sometimes take measure of what Kennedy’s legacy meant to them then — and today. And how his hope and convictions for this nation might be reflected in the lives they went on to lead.
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