note to self- assassinations-1968 chronology

JANUARY 30- the tet offensive begins
FEBRUARY 27 Walter Cronkite announced his disenchantment with the war
MARCH 12 Eugene McCarthy, an obscure senator running on an antiwar platform, humbled Lyndon Johnson in the New Hampshire primary
MARCH 16 Robert Kennedy entered the presidential race, also in opposition to LBJ's war
MARCH 31 Johnson announced he would not run for reelection (remembering he took the presidency after Bobby's brother John F Kennedy was assassinated in Nov '63)
APRIL 4 Martin Luther King, Jr wa assassinated in Memphis; civil disturbances broke out in cities across the nation, including it's capitol
JUNE 5 , just after midnight, after accepting victory in California primary, Robert F Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He died a day later
AUGUST 26-29 at the Democratic convention in Chicago, supporters of McCarthy and the fallen Kennedy refused to cooperate in the nomination of Lyndon Johnson's vice president, Hubert Humphrey, as the Democratic candidate for president. Americans watched in amazement and horror as anarchy filled the hall, and violence, between young antiwar demonstrators and Chicago police officers, surrounded it.
There are MANY directions any study of these events can go, and I wanted to make sure I could refer back to this so I wouldn't leave anything out. I can certainly see why Johnson didn't wanna run. For one thing, he was already blamed by many JFK conspiracists, and he couldn't gain the presidency again by the assassination of JFK's brother- that is, if he could know that it was gonna happen (clears throat).