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A Deadly Decade: Assassinations!

John F. Kennedy Click here to visit the JFK Assassination Page – use the backspace to return to this page!

Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee Dr. King has broadened his efforts to combat poverty as well as racism. James Earl Ray is captured and convicted of being the assassin. A charge he admitted at the time, and later recanted. Riots blazed in large cities around the United States – the non-violent movement suffered a major setback!

Bobby Kennedy JFK’s little brother and Attorney General Running for President in 1968 Assassinated on June 6 in Los Angeles after giving a campaign speech. Sirhan Sirhan, the gunman who protested Kennedy’s position on Israel, was immediately apprehended. The sixties had now lost three of its liberal-minded heroes.