Bob
On June 6, 1968, Robert Francis Kennedy was
assassinated in Los Angeles.
Bob had been Attorney General and a key figure in his brother JFK's
Administration, backing the Civil Rights Movement and the fight
against organised crime.
On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City.
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in
Memphis. Robert Kennedy was campaigning in Indianapolis for the
primaries of the Democratic party. He took to the streets and gave
an impromptu speech, urging African Americans not to riot.
On June 5 he won the primaries in California, but was shot that
night and died the day after.
A year earlier, Ronald Reagan, a former actor who was in favour of
the war in Vietnam, had become Governor of California.
The Sixties, the decade in which the United States were a young,
prosperous and exceptional country brimming with energy and
enthusiasm were coming to a close. [1]
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"There are those who look at things the way they are and ask: Why?
I dream of things that never were, and ask: Why not?" – Robert
Francis Kennedy.
