Faith: It's OK buy ribavirin The assassination was an earthquake of violence at a time when America was placid – the exception being the Deep South, where ferment was increasing over civil rights. It was a nation building on the prosperity of the Eisenhower years, politically calm. The relative peace did not last. We were tormented by cultural divides developing apace throughout the sixties and the appalling assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, not to mention a president's resignation – all staining and straining America's public life. My generation took the murders personally, angry at being robbed of the Kennedys and aspirations JFK expressed with surpassing eloquence: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," he proclaimed in the famous inaugural, later giving youth a chance to fulfill the vision by establishing the Peace Corps. He gave heart to the beleaguered East Germans ("Ich bin ein Berliner") and to the impoverished: "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."