[MS from the OC]

The first shot may have been much earlier - June 1968 - with the murder of Robert Kennedy...

[VOA]

Good point on the assassination of Bobby Kennedy by a Palestinian.

Just my inexpert opinion, but the USA got their first shot in learning about
Islam soon after the founding of the country...with the run-in with the Barbary
pirates and other Islamic thugs of North Afica.
They thought they owned a fair chunk of the Mediterranean.
Now the Islamics think they are due rent on the freakin' planet.

[Battle Axe]

Hummmmmmm.

I was a student at UCD in 1968, about to graduate. I was walking out of the MU and noticed a lot of kids running. It was a convertible driving around the quad. Bobby Kennedy was sitting there in plain sight. It seemed to accelerate as he went around the quad.

One week later he was dead.