![]() “No way I did that on purpose!” Kennedy said of the rolled sleeves-a visual echo of his father’s famous campaigning style. “It was as though Max had inhabited his father’s body for the evening.” I think he would be angry at companies like Driscoll, and he would say, ‘Why don’t you let your workers organize without fear of intimidation?’ ” “And I know that if he were alive, he would be standing here tonight, and I wish it were so. “I know your cheers are not for me, but for my father,” he said. The audience fell silent, as if seeing a ghost. Then Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, shirt sleeves rolled, ran his hands through his hair and stepped up to the podium. ![]() Gray Davis, on his way to winning the governor’s race, was there to capitalize on the Kennedy aura. ![]() Edward James Olmos spoke, and Delores Huerta and Henry G. Chavez’s son, Paul, spoke of historic labor battles and those still being fought. ![]() Kennedy flew to Delano and stood by Cesar Chavez as the legendary labor activist ended his fast in support of California’s farm workers. More than 1,000 people had gathered to remember the day, 30 years ago, when Robert F. ![]()
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