1963 JFK And 1968 RFK To 2000

He started his day with breakfast and a speech at Fort Worth, before leaving his hotel and flying to Dallas, Texas to give another speech to a luncheon to be attended by thousands. Despite the delighted crowds that converged around John F. Kennedy as he shook their hands when he disembarked, however, the pleasant mood of the day wouldn't last much longer. For at precisely 12:30 P.M., as his open-top convertible drove to the Trade Mart where he was scheduled to deliver his next speech, the forty-six-year-old president met a brutal and tragic end. Shot multiple times by an assassin waiting in the wings that day, President Kennedy was fast-tracked to the Parkland Memorial Hospital just a few minutes away. But it was too late. The young president was declared dead at 1:00 P.M. on that solemn Friday afternoon, much to the shock, horror, and grief of a nation.

Despite outliving his deceased elder brother, however, Robert F. Kennedy was cursed to suffer an equally terrible fate just five years later. Remaining in Lyndon Johnson's administration for several months before winning the New York senate race in 1964 by a reasonably large margin, he eventually became a leading Democratic candidate during the 1968 election. Unfortunately, his considerable wins in the California and South Dakota primaries on June 4th of that year were rendered moot by yet another assassin who fired on him while shaking hands in the press room of The Ambassador Hotel. With Robert rushed to the hospital and eventually pronounced dead at 1:44 AM on June 6th, the nation lost a similarly beloved Kennedy brother as the already-tumultuous 1968 election cycle raged on, culminating in a narrow victory for Republican nominee Richard Nixon as he promised to restore 'law and order' to a country in the throes of turbulence and division.