Senator Robert Kennedy

Following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert Kennedy, Congress passes the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. It includes the Gun Control Act of 1968, which prohibits nearly all interstate gun sales, requires licensing of all gun dealers, and requires the recording of details about gun sales. 

In 1968, Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy were assassinated. New York s Columbia University Students rioted over US actions in Vietnam. In April 1970, the US blue blood establishment was shocked out of its complacency when six thousand of their sons and daughters rioted at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

A rationale for a government traffic safety policy which is distinct from incentives, information, incompetency and paternalism is the idea that a transfer of wealth (in the form of more crashworthy vehicles) can be from auto manufacturers to consumers. In the 1965 traffic safety hearing Senator Ribicoff reasoned that since Detroit makes a lot of money it should use profits for safety and Senator Robert Kennedy chastised the executives of General Motors for... 

In 1966, the government did not seem to have considered these early experiences much, and appeared to believe that by preventing Sandoz from manufacturing and distributing LSD to research workers, the problem would soon be resolved. Indeed, one of us was told by an aide of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy that the ex-Attorney General of the... 

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