What were the repercussions of the Bobby Kennedy assassination?
But, to be very specific….Kennedy had emerged as the front-runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Had he gotten the nomination, we would have been spared the Chicago Police riots at the Democratic National Convention and a lot of people who were there wouldn’t have gotten busted by the Chicago cops. Of even more importance though is that we would have been out of Viet Nam a lot sooner than we were since he was running on an anti-war platform. Had he not been assassinated and gotten elected President, we would have been spared the Presidency of Richard Nixon, a national disgrace if there ever was one. We would have been spared Watergate and his resignation. In addition, had Kennedy been elected President, since he was a champion of the poor, its safe to assume that he would have made some steps in helping to alleviate that problem as well, although he couldn’t have eliminated it since we have always had, and always will have, the poor. Those are the major ramifications of
