Martin Luther King Jr.’s and Robert F. Kennedy’s deaths had a huge impact on the nation because both men
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Were assassinated in front of the entire nation
Both men were great defensors and leaders of civil and human rights. When Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4th, 1968 John F. Kennedy was still a candidate to the presidency of the United States, but historians and his biographers consider that the speech he gave is one of the most overlooked in US political history. Two months later, JFK brother was murdered too, which probably increased his awareness regarding the ideas Martin Luther King Jr. fought.
Therefore, both were moral leaders for the nation, powerful speakers and both tried to address the differences between the rich and the poor, the African Americans and the white, they were visionaries, charismatic, and at that time, both faced what had been considering one of the worst and most harmful presidencies of history: Nixon’s.