Cold War Context for the Killings of Four US Political Leaders

Kennedy addressing supporters in the Embassy Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel. Photograph Source: Sven Walnum – CC0

The imperialist U.S. state stops at nothing; anything goes. Really?  After victory in World War II and with U.S. manufacturing in high gear, the United States in the 1960s dominated world finances, trade, and politics.  One dark cloud was the Soviet Union.  Its industrialization had greatly expanded before the War and afterwards was recovering. The USSR was mentoring nations emerging from colonization.