<P> After the speech Kennedy took a chartered plane to Washington D.C. As it approached the city, the passengers could see smoke rising from fires started during the riots . Kennedy asked the pilot to circle again to get another view . Upon landing, Kennedy proposed driving into the riot zone to calm down the mobs, saying, "I think I can do something with these people ." Most of his aides were shocked at the idea . Fred Dutton, attempting to delay, suggested that Kennedy inform Mayor Walter Washington of his plans as a courtesy . John Bartlow Martin told him that little could be done while people were still rioting, and that he would appear to be grandstanding . Kennedy then reluctantly went home . </P> <P> Two days later Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, attended an 8 a.m. Palm Sunday service at New Bethel Baptist Church in the riot zone . Stokely Carmichael, widely blamed for inciting local disorder, was among the others in the congregation . Kennedy, a devout Catholic, took communion with the rest of the parishioners, much to the chagrin of the Bishop of Washington . After the service he asked the minister, Walter E. Fauntroy, how bad the destruction was in the surrounding area . Fauntroy then walked Kennedy towards the worst devastation on 14th street . Ethel, aide Peter Edelman, Marian Wright Edelman (wife of Peter Edelman), and a small group of reporters, local officials, and parishioners closely followed . People joined the crowd as it walked, becoming so large that a group of National Guardsmen mistook it for a mob of looters . Fearing a confrontation, they put on their gas masks and fixed their bayonets . A trailing police car quickly accelerated and parked itself in between the crowd and the guardsmen to prevent any incident from occurring . Fauntroy remembered, "When (the guardsmen) saw it was Bobby Kennedy, they took off their masks and let us through . They looked awfully relieved ." </P> <P> That evening Kennedy held a televised press conference on the possibility of a domestic Peace Corps - like program to reduce racism in white suburbs . On April 8, Kennedy and his wife went, at the request of Coretta Scott King, to Atlanta to attend Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral . That evening he held a meeting with his aides over how to get the attention of middle - class whites weary of the civil rights movement in order to relieve the racial tension in the country . Kennedy returned to Indiana and on April 10 delivered his third and final speech inspired by King's death . Moving past his previous calls for compassion and an end to violence, he admonished whites to accept and welcome blacks into American society . Throughout the rest of the month, Kennedy toned down his campaign rhetoric and fixed on a theme of unity and reconciliation . </P> <P>--Kerry Kennedy, 2018 </P>

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