The Dark Days of April 4th, June 5th, and November 22nd!

Do you remember where you were on any of these days? Many of us were not even alive in the 1960's, but those of us who were, do remember the overwhelming sadness that permeated the entire civilized world.

November 22, 1963

It's a sunny day in Dallas, Texas. Thousands of people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of John F. Kennedy Jr. (and his wife Jaqueline Kennedy) who were riding in an open-top presidential limousine through Dealey Plaza. Shots rang out blowing the brains of the President onto the lap of his wife Jaqueline in her pink suit with navy blue trim. And the world stood still frozen in shock at what they witnessed over and over again on television. It created a Covid-like pandemic throughout the world. Beyond the pageantry of his funeral was a deep collective conscious and unconscious feeling of sadness that even those who disagreed with his politics suffered from and still do to this day.

April 4th, 1968

Martin Luther King Jr., a world renowned preacher and civil rights leader. We are standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel with Martin Luther King Jr., in Memphis, Tennessee leaving for dinner. Across the street, in a sleazy motel room, a lone gunman by the name of James Earl Ray, shot this good man down. Again, time stood still for a split eternal second... And then the riots began! And who could blame them? He was the great hope of all minorities longing for equality regardless of color or nationality. His words in, "I have a dream" speech, still ring out loud in the memory of anyone who ever heard them spoken. This man of god, preaching to the entire world, still to this day inspires anyone listening with words of truth and love, will live on as long as Western Civilization continues to exist.

June 5th, 1968

While America was still trying to find its sea legs from the murders of Kennedy and King another "Big Bang" moment occurred and shaped the future to this very day. I've always said that if you are born with a headache you don't know you have it, not unlike a child who needs glasses and believes that the world is impressionistic until an adult becomes aware of the child's poor vision and corrects it with glasses. RFK Senior was gunned down and the trinity of that horrific decade completed itself in horror.

Why?

Conspiracy theories abound regarding why these three murderous acts took place.

Was it because all three of them wanted America to withdraw from the Vietnam War? The Warren Commission unsuccessfully tried and failed at the cover up in history by saying that it was a lone gunman who killed JFK. Hardly anyone believed in their conclusion. And regarding MLK Jr., anger became the norm in part of the American psyche, at least unconsciously, and the murder of RFK Sr., served as the icing on the cake in sadness and anger.

And the dark shadow of collective PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) became engrained in the consciousness of the American psyche.

And America was cynically changed forever.