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

[OldEurope]

108. I was born 1958.

My mother had a grocery right over the road of a casern of American troups (in Munich). We got our first TV in 1965, so we missed the pictures from Dallas. But we watched radio. And mourned, because America was the great promise, the model for our new born democracy. My sister who is ten years older than I, had a poster of JFK pinned at her side of the room. He was a hero for the German youth, the poster was from a special journal for German teenagers.
And then we had to notice that the promise was not kept. When MLK died I was still a child. But this was the first time in my live when I cried for a person I had never met. We had a TV then, and I started to learn English at school. I learned about racism in America at the same time when I learned about the terrible racism in Germany in the past. You freed us from the nazis - but you could not protect MLK. To me it seemed that many Americans did not even want to protect him. Of course I now know that things are much more complicated.