"But the chaos of that spring continued.

Four days after LBJ withdrew, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Rioting followed in more than 100 cities around the country, including the nation's capital, with the level of violence rising and falling through April and May.

In the first week of June, the primaries ended with Kennedy winning California's prize cache of delegates.

"Now it's on to Chicago and win there!" Kennedy told his cheering supporters in Los Angeles that night.

But minutes later he was shot. He died the next day.

The proximity to King's slaying and the flashbacks to his brother raised the emotional intensity still higher."

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This was my first real experience with politics, and I've been a keen observer ever since.

What I observed then was that the Republican far right celebrated both assassinations, often gleefully and openly.

What I observe now is that those same folks celebrate a criminal and a traitor to go back to the WH he raped while he was there last time.