Extraordinary, for those who are old enough to remember it, that fifty years have come and gone. I was in 5th grade in elementary school in West-Southwest Baltimore. They announced it over the intercom (a bit strange to kids only 5-11 years old). It was a Friday. All three networks covered nothing else for a solid week.

It is sadly ironic that JFK and RFK, who saved the world from a potential nuclear holocaust with their efforts in the Cuban Missile Crisis (13 months earlier), were both murdered within six years of the resolution of that crisis.

Yes, the sixties was a violent decade. To those who are not old enough, the aftermath of the 1968 MLK Jr assassination was worst than 9-11-2011 to Americans who were not directly impacted by the terrorist attacks. The violence across the country lasted for days - not hours. It took a long time for order to be restored. It made everyone apprehensive - no matter what your ethnicity.

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