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As sad and disastrous as it was, I believe that the assassination of John F Kennedy was only the second most important assassination of a Kennedy in the 1960s.
My thinking goes thus: JFK had accomplished a great deal, and doubtless would have done even more good for the country. However, RFK would have defeated Nixon, at which point Watergate either doesn't happen or doesn't discredit the Presidency the way it did. Add to that all of what RFK stood for -- serious liberal and progressive changes -- and the difference he would have made directly, far less in not having Ford, and possibly not even Saint Ronny of the Economic Golden Showers, and his loss is great indeed.
All that said, I was two years old when JFK was shot, and don't remember it. But it was a great loss for our country, and worth remembering solemnly.
My thinking goes thus: JFK had accomplished a great deal, and doubtless would have done even more good for the country. However, RFK would have defeated Nixon, at which point Watergate either doesn't happen or doesn't discredit the Presidency the way it did. Add to that all of what RFK stood for -- serious liberal and progressive changes -- and the difference he would have made directly, far less in not having Ford, and possibly not even Saint Ronny of the Economic Golden Showers, and his loss is great indeed.
All that said, I was two years old when JFK was shot, and don't remember it. But it was a great loss for our country, and worth remembering solemnly.