We lived in NYC, and I went to a catholic elementary school. The nuns were freaking out, and us kids didn’t know what to think. That week-end the city was about the most quiet I had ever known it to be. All this was followed by Oswald getting whacked on nationwide TV, and then the riots soon thereafter. The world had changed, and not in a good way. I doubt JFK would have gotten re-elected; there was too much unrest, especially in the South. His demise in the fashion that defined it was not, however, constuctive or beneficial. Personally, I blame RFK for a whole lot of the assassination that ensued, and also LBJ. Both were dirty in this.
RFK and JFK were idiots way over their heads on every aspect. To their demise they both underestimated and tried to play LBJ for some local yocal. But LBJ was a much smarter “dirty” politician, much bigger crook and even after all this time still seems to be the instagator behind both their hits. To a certain degree Lyndon did us a favor, RFK would have been crowned by the sheeple and would have been worse than even nobama. Ending up with LBJ proved far worse for America in the long run.