I was 10 and devastated when JFK was killed. Remember crying a lot and telling my mom that he saved my oldest brother (then age 20) from going to war and us from being bombed. By age 14, when RFK was murdered, I understand the national ramifications, or at least thought that I did.
Do you ever wonder what the world and our country would be today if those two men hadn't died when they did, and MLK and Malcolm X as well? Someone back then did not want change and was willing to find stooges to kill to prevent it.