Was anyone out there alive and aware when JFK, MLK and RFK were shot?

[Contrary1]

24. Great sadness with John, disbelief with Martin...

And after Bobby...a despair that nothing would ever be right again. The fire within me was snuffed out. No one since has come along to rekindle it.

Bobby was special to me. It was the 60's, a time when I still believed my voice mattered. I was living in Indianapolis.

Back then, security was probably the best it could have been.

He was going to speak at, of all places, a shopping center. My best friend; Stella and I, broke through the "barriers" (yellow tape), and ran down the paved hill to meet him in his white convertible. We got to shake his hand.

Later that night, we took a bus downtown to hear him speak. It was at the long-gone Claypool Hotel. Being the dare-devils we were, we somehow found out what floor he was staying on, and actually made it to within 10 feet of his suite before we were stopped by the Secret Service. (Can you even imagine?)

And on the night that Martin Luther King died, Robert Kennedy was scheduled to speak here.

He spoke in one of the most crime-ridden areas of the city. When he made the announcement that Martin had been silenced, there was a major police presence, Violence was expected.

There was none:

Now, I'm much older. I have pretty much given up on the hope that a man or woman will come along that will be the equal to any of these three men.

*Edited to change the hotel name. It was the Claypool, not the Clayton. Can't believe I screwed up that one.