Your statement: "it seemed like the lights went out for good when RFK was murdered."
It seems like we haven't just been fighting a defensive action ever since...too often it has been fighting a losing battle, since then.
I know...that is sounds too pessimistic...but it seems we take one step forward, and two steps back...at least too many times, for my taste.
I became extremely angry when Ronnie Raygun was elected (?) in 1980. I can remember being outraged when the t.v. stations were calling the election for him before the West coast polls had even closed, and many people out here had not voted yet. Then I re-read Jerry Manders' "Four Arguments For the Elimination of Television", and I decided to stop watching t.v., and got rid of my set.
However, it was during Jimmy Carter's presidency that the Wrong Wing Fundy Whackjobs really ramped up. They had been itching to roll back the gains made during the late 1960's to early 1970's. I, along with many others, knew right from the beginning what their REAL agenda actually was. But, we didn't have the money we would've needed to get our side of the issues onto the media so it could be heard and the evil of the other side exposed.
When Ronnie Raygun got into power...that is when we really stepped onto the slippery slope. And things really went downhill, from there. 
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