The JFK Assassination Is What Set Us On This Downward Spiral. Add MLK & Bobby. [View all]
Three key public figures who stood for economic and social fairness and against racism and corruption were gunned down in a very short time. Now I am 73 and looking back. I was 18 when Kennedy got shot. And I was on the curb on 5th Avenue near my Jr college when his limo passed just 4 feet from me on the way out of Springfield, Illinois. And I was in a study hall when it was revealed that he had been shot. I believe that is when the country began to turn sour in so many ways.
The Kennedy's & MLK championed the idea of social, racial and economic justice. And they were all killed. And LBJ was the modern FDR who tried to continue that legacy but got bogged down with Vietnam.
The GOP and its allies including the Koch's dad and most likely Trump's dad hate Kennedy with a passion. Kennedy was warned NOT to go to Dallas but he did. The Koch's dad put out a hateful pamphlet in Dallas a few days before his arrival that had the same attacks we have seen on Obama for 8 years.
The GOP feigned sadness over Kennedy but I know many of them were glad in their hearts. Nothing has changed only the GOP dark hearts are now in the open. ACA repeal and Trump proves it all.
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