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

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81. As a Catholic school child, the JFK assasination was largely

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perceived among the Catholic parents and church priests/nuns as an example of religious martyrdom. If you were a good little Catholic boy or girl, you fell in step with that illogical idea. When MLK was shot, among my northern white relations it was perceived as an unfortunate but probably necessary evil. The so called good whites felt that MLK was probably a good man and people needed to be treated decently but not equally. No never equally. And whereas they thronged to the message and the image of Jack Kennedy, in fairness, the media never gave MLK the air time needed to really acquaint whites with his message. I don't think that most even knew he was a Reverend.

By the time RFK was shot, they felt the same about Robert Kennedy as they did about MLK. They did not rally round his death as an example of Catholic martyrdom except as it applied to his wife, the mother of his 11 (?) children. In their minds he was the lesser of the two brother and in some invisible way, they blamed Robert for Jack's death. No one ever said it but they were thinking it.

Each death was significant in terms of its relation to time. The speed of change was faster then than the release of the newest Iphones today. It was all an incredible jumble of events and impressions for each age group.

I have spend my adult years piecing together the puzzle of those times and of course the significance of Watergate.