Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary

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Index Abernathy, Ralph, 62 Acheson, Dean, 46 Adams, Eddie, 18, 19 Adams Drug Company, 106 Adderly, Herb, 108 Ade, George, 30 Aeschylus, 5, 67, 118 African Americans: at Kennedy speech at Broadway Christian center, 65; and Kerner Commission, 19; local leaders meet with Kennedy, 69; strike in Memphis, 61; support Kennedy, 63, 68, 72, 79, 103–104, 108–109, 115 Agamemmon, 5 Agnew, Spiro T., 130 Alexander, Shana, 50 Allen County Courthouse (Fort Wayne, Ind.), 109 Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles), 122, 124 American Independent Party, 29, 46–47 American Legion, 7, 9; Indiana Department of, 111 American Society of Newspaper Editors’s Freedom of Information Committee, 98 Anderson, Sherwood, 73 Antlers Hotel (Indianapolis), 81 Arlington National Cemetery, 127 Arthur, Chester A., 13 Ash, Tom, 38–39 Associated Press, 18 Atchison Champion, 55 Back to Methuselah, 79 Baer Field (Fort Wayne, Ind.), 109 Bailey, John, 89 Baldoni, Ideal, 58 Ball State University (Muncie, Ind.), 3, 43, 57, 59, 71 Barnard, Margo, 106–107 Barry, William, 61 “Battle of Chicago,” 129 Bayh, Birch, 8, 34 Bayh, Evan, 132 Beatty, Jim, 16, 36, 37, 38, 51, 52 Bedford-Stuyvesant, 78 Bell, Benjamin, 63, 70, 85 Bell, David, 74 Ben Tre, 18 Benjamin Harrison School (South Bend, Ind.), 116 Blackburn, Dan, 110–111 Blaine, James G., 13 Bodine, Richard, 89 Bogle, Dr. James A., 44, 82 Boston, riots, 19 Boston University, 107 Boysa, Anthony M., 121, 127 Brademas, John, 36, 39, 130 164 · Index Bradley, General Omar, 46 Branch, Ben, 61, 62 Branch, Taylor, 120 Branigin, Elba, 32 Branigin, Josephine Mardis, 32 Branigin, Robert M., 32, 44, 49 Branigin, Roger D., 2, 7–8, 9, 31–32, 86, 87, 91; attempts to win Democratic nomination for governor (1956), 33; attends Harvard Law School, 32; birth, 32; confident about winning primary, 113–114; encourages Hoosier Republican voters to cross party lines, 104–105; endorsed by Indiana Conference of Teamsters, 113; finishes second in primary, 115, 116; marries Josephine Mardis, 32; at national convention, 130; opinion of Johnson, 34; publisher of Franklin Evening Star, 32; receives support from Eli Lilly, 55; receives telegram from Kennedy, 34–35; remains in 1968 primary as favorite-son candidate, 54; stands in for President Johnson in Indiana primary, 31, 34, 35, 44, 88; supported by Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News, 55, 97; is told Johnson will not run for president, 48; wins 1964 gubernatorial election, 32, 33; and World War II, 33 Branigin, Roger D., Jr., 29, 31, 32, 44 Branigin, Zula, 32 Breasted, David, 92–93 Breslin, Jimmy, 114 Broadway Christian Center (Indianapolis ), 2, 4, 57, 63, 65 Broder, David, 92 Brown, Pat, 99 Brown, Timmy, 108 Bruno, Jerry, 80, 91 Bryant, W. D., 92 Burns, John, 51 Burns Harbor port, 34 Cadou, Jep, Jr., 97 Califano, Joseph A., Jr., 19, 20, 46, 47 California, 7, 16, 20 Camus, Albert, 67, 94, 132 The Candidate, 114 Cantwell, Paul, 37–38 Carey, James, 59 Carmichael, Stokely, 5 Carroll College (Waukesha, Wis.), 49 CBS Evening News, 18 Center Township (Indianapolis), 1 Central High School (South Bend, Ind.), 58 Chacharis, George, 40 Chicago, riots at 1968 Democratic Party National Convention, 128–130 Chicago Daily News, 54 Christian Brotherhood Center, 65 Christian Theological Seminary (Indianapolis), 99 Church, Frank, 14 Churchill, Winston, 3 Cincinnati, riots, 19 Citizens for Kennedy (New York), 83 Citizens for McCarthy, 56 City of Petunias (Huntington, Ind.), 92 Clark, Blair, 26–27 Clark, George Rogers, 77 Clark, Robert, 123 Claypool Hotel (Indianapolis), 81, 85, 119 Clifford, Clark, 26, 46, 47–48, 141n43 Clinton, Bill, 132, 133 Cole, Ben, 97–98 Collegeville (Minn.), 14 Collier’s, 73 Columbia University, 21, 89 Colwell, Jack, 58, 116 Commercial Printing, 38 Communists, 17, 18, 23, 28 Concannon, Jack, 108 Concordia Senior College (Fort Wayne, Ind.), 93 Conference of Concerned Democrats, 13, 20 Conn, Earl, 43, 59, 60–61 Connor, Lawrence “Bo,” 56 Conrad, Larry, 132 Conrad Hilton Hotel (Chicago), 20 Cooke, Archbishop Terence J. (New York City), 127 Index · 1 65 Cool Hand Luke, 84 Cornell University, 28 Cravey, Altha, 2, 65, 66 Cravey, Gerald, 65–66 Crawford, William, 3, 5, 134 Crispus Attucks High School (Indianapolis), 108 Cronkite, Walter, 18, 117 Crossover voting, 104–105, 106 Crume, Virginia, 103 Daley, Richard, 6, 26, 52, 56, 125, 128, 129, 132 Dane County Memorial Coliseum (Madison, Wis.), 49 Daniel, Charles L., 18 Davis, Sammy, Jr., 107 Dawalt, Dale, 92 De Moss, Thomas, 44 Dean, Dizzy, 91 Deer, Reverend Lewis, 65, 68 Delaware County...