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CHOOSE YOUR WEAPONS, FOLKS
Herblock regularly called for Congress to pass gun control legislation in the years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and he vented his frustration at the National Rifle Association and gun salesmen days after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. While the majority of Americans favored stricter gun controls, Herblock felt that they "were not organized to shoot letters at Congressmen as were the trained letter writers of the National Rifle Association."
[Gun Peddler and NRA man standing in front of epithet to John F. Kennedy, King, and others killed by guns in U.S.], 1968. Published in the Washington Post, April 10, 1968. |