Icame of age during the assassination decade of the 1960s, shocked by the public murders of President John F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Bobby Kennedy.

Those acts of violence marked all of us who lived through them and tried to make sense of them, as they mark us still today.

But they were, in a way, uncomplicated. All were outrages against the open and democratic society our country’s founders and leaders have tried to build across two and a half centuries. Most citizens understood that and were repelled by those acts of domestic terrorism. All three targets had the power to change the country – two achieved by election to high office and one anointed by acclamation – and they were killed by people who wanted to prevent them from exercising that power.

Charlie Ki

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