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"I JUST DON’T KNOW WHAT THIS COUNTRY IS COMING TO"
Expressing outrage at the death of Democratic Party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy on June 6, 1968, Herblock contrasted the madness of the handgun wielding assassin Sirhan Sirhan with what he considered false piety of Kennedy’s fellow senators. President Lyndon Baines Johnson called once again for Congress to pass gun control legislation. Initially resistant, a deluge of mail from constituents convinced U.S. Congress to pass the Gun Control Act of 1968, which Johnson signed into law on October 22, 1968.
"I Just Don’t Know What This Country Is Coming To," 1968. Published in the Washington Post, June 9, 1968. |