The world is watching and waiting to see if democracy will be stolen from American politics. Way too many times it has been tried and we should never allow it again.
Just after midnight on June 5, 1968, Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot after delivering a speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Coming off a narrow but crucial victory in the California primary, Kennedy had confidently promised the crowd of supporters that he would heal the many divisions within the country on his way to the nomination.
Just two months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and not five years after his brother's assassination, a nation in turmoil faced yet another crisis. Bobby Kennedy was killed.
It was not staged this was reality reminding all of us that US democracy is fragile and Americans must never take it for granted.