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“AIN’T NOBODY HERE BUT JES’ US SPORTSMEN”
Reacting to the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Washington, D.C., Herblock depicts the group as highly armed gangsters. Senator Ted Kennedy, who had lost his older brother, President John F. Kennedy, to an assassin’s bullet on November 22, 1963, spoke at the meeting to a closed-door audience. Intending to pass gun control legislation, he declared United States gun deaths “a growing national emergency.” Tragically, he lost another brother, Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), to an assassin four months before President Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968 into law.
“Ain’t Nobody Here but Jes’ Us Sportsmen”, 1967. Published in the Washington Post, April 6, 1967. |