On October 29, 1966, Bobby Kennedy came to Michigan to stump for the Democrats. With the help of an RFK scholar, we listen back to that speech, made at the University of Detroit Memorial Building. Bobby is smart, moving, funny, and prescient. It's a time capsule, to be sure, but surprisingly relevant. I mean, are you surprised that Bobby would say that the GOP talks big but doesn't deliver?

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 &lt;p&gt;On October 29, 1966, Bobby Kennedy came to Michigan to stump for the Democrats. With the help of an RFK scholar, we listen back to that speech, made at the University of Detroit Memorial Building. Bobby is smart, moving, funny, and prescient. It's a time capsule, to be sure, but surprisingly relevant. I mean, are you surprised that Bobby would say that the GOP talks big but doesn't deliver?&lt;/p&gt;
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                    On October 29, 1966, Bobby Kennedy came to Michigan to stump for the Democrats. With the help of an RFK scholar, we listen back to that speech, made at the University of Detroit Memorial Building. Bobby is smart, moving, funny, and prescient. It's a time capsule, to be sure, but surprisingly relevant. I mean, are you surprised that Bobby would say that the GOP talks big but doesn't deliver?
                


                    Rare Audio: RFK charms Detroit Dems
                

On October 29, 1966, Bobby Kennedy came to Michigan to stump for the Democrats. With the help of an RFK scholar, we listen back to that speech, made at the University of Detroit Memorial Building. Bobby is smart, moving, funny, and prescient.&nbsp;It's a time capsule, to be sure, but surprisingly relevant. I mean, are you surprised that Bobby would say that the GOP talks big but doesn't deliver?

<description>&lt;p&gt;On October 29, 1966, Bobby Kennedy came to Michigan to stump for the Democrats. With the help of an RFK scholar, we listen back to that speech, made at the University of Detroit Memorial Building. Bobby is smart, moving, funny, and prescient.&amp;nbsp;It's a time capsule, to be sure, but surprisingly relevant. I mean, are you surprised that Bobby would say that the GOP talks big but doesn't deliver?&lt;/p&gt;</description>

On October 29, 1966, Bobby Kennedy came to Michigan to stump for the Democrats. With the help of an RFK scholar, we listen back to that speech, made at the University of Detroit Memorial Building. Bobby is smart, moving, funny, and prescient. It's a time capsule, to be sure, but surprisingly relevant. I mean, are you surprised that Bobby would say that the GOP talks big but doesn't deliver?

Rare Audio: RFK charms Detroit Dems

John Rabe talks with "Somewhere in Time" director Jeannot Scwarc about working with the late Christopher Plummer, who tried to foil Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve's on-screen romance. Plummer died Friday, February 5, at the age of 91.&nbsp;

<description>&lt;p&gt;John Rabe talks with "Somewhere in Time" director Jeannot Scwarc about working with the late Christopher Plummer, who tried to foil Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve's on-screen romance. Plummer died Friday, February 5, at the age of 91.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

John Rabe talks with "Somewhere in Time" director Jeannot Scwarc about working with the late Christopher Plummer, who tried to foil Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve's on-screen romance. Plummer died Friday, February 5, at the age of 91. 

CBY RIP Christopher Plummer 

John Rabe talks with "Somewhere in Time" director Jeannot Scwarc about working with the late Christopher Plummer, who tried to foil Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve's on-screen romance. Plummer died Friday, February 5, at the age of 91.

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 &lt;p&gt;John Rabe talks with "Somewhere in Time" director Jeannot Scwarc about working with the late Christopher Plummer, who tried to foil Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve's on-screen romance. Plummer died Friday, February 5, at the age of 91. &lt;/p&gt;
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                    John Rabe talks with "Somewhere in Time" director Jeannot Scwarc about working with the late Christopher Plummer, who tried to foil Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve's on-screen romance. Plummer died Friday, February 5, at the age of 91. 
                


                    CBY RIP Christopher Plummer 
                

<div>When I asked Kathy and Tom Lewand to do an interview this fall while standing over my parents' grave on Mackinac Island, I expected them to be weirded-out and refuse. But now that I think about it, it wasn't any weirder than the stuff they did with my folks over the years, like Silent Records and The Stone Skipping Contest. Note: This episode includes an excerpt of an exceedingly rare recording of a Robert Kennedy speech in Detroit in 1966.</div>

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 &lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;When I asked &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Kathy and Tom Lewand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; to do an interview this fall &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;while standing over my parents' grave&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; on Mackinac Island, I expected them to be weirded-out and refuse. But now that I think about it, it wasn't any weirder than the stuff they did with my folks over the years, like Silent Records and The Stone Skipping Contest. &lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: This episode includes an excerpt of an exceedingly rare recording of a Robert Kennedy speech in Detroit in 1966.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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                    When I asked Kathy and Tom Lewand to do an interview this fall while standing over my parents' grave on Mackinac Island, I expected them to be weirded-out and refuse. But now that I think about it, it wasn't any weirder than the stuff they did with my folks over the years, like Silent Records and The Stone Skipping Contest. Note: This episode includes an excerpt of an exceedingly rare recording of a Robert Kennedy speech in Detroit in 1966.
                


                    CBY Going Graveside on Mackinac
                

Public radio's John Rabe and his guests celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Somewhere In Time" by exploring the cult movie's themes of love, loss, memory, time travel, and Mackinac Island, and how they intersect with their own lives. 

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