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both very public figures, and they were assassinated within five years of one another. John F. Kennedy was President of the United States, and Dr. King was a prominent civil
rights leader. Kennedy was in Dallas in November, 1963; he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was himself shot a few days later by Jack Ruby. In a bizarre
twist, Rubys murder of Oswald was captured on live television, shocking the entire nation. The fallout from the JFK assassination is still a subject of controversy. Dr. Martin Luther King,
who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, was gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee, in April 1968. Dr. King was working tirelessly on behalf of civil rights, and had been
in the forefront of the movement for years. Ironically, he had come to the city to try and calm some of the unrest there; he was shot as he left
his motel room to join friends for dinner (Rosenberg, 2009). Like Kennedy, he survived for a short time and died in the hospital (Rosenberg, 2009). The responses to the two
murders were very different. The Kennedy assassination saddened the country and led to a period of great uncertainty about the stability of the international community. Some of the wilder theories
were that the Soviets were behind the shooting, and there were fears that it could mean nuclear war. The loss of President Kennedy meant that Lyndon Johnson took over and
as one of his priorities, he increased the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam. Had Kennedy not been shot, the history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam might be very different.
The assassination of Dr. King caused a very different reaction: African Americans were not only greatly saddened, they were infuriated and rioting broke out across the United States. Black neighborhoods
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