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Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – The People’s View

Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – The People’s View

Rein Jelle Terpstra | Netherlands | 2019 | 8' |

| IFFR 2019

In 1968, the casket of the assassinated Robert F. Kennedy was transported on a funeral train from New York to Washington. The film presents a cinematographic reflection on this historic train journey from the people’s perspective, with photographs, home movies, witness accounts and an original sound recording. (Eye Filmmuseum)

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