RFK was right that there was a highly charged conservative climate when his uncle was killed. The draft Goldwater movement was in full swing and even Nixon, when he heard that Kennedy was killed, first asked J Edgar Hoover if it was a right wing nut.
But then, as now, the conservatives had nothing to do with the crazed, violent actions of the assasin. The goal of the left is to destroy their conservative opposition. Taft, Goldwater, Reagan, Agnew, Buchanan, Palin, even Nixon early on, Bork. They’re people in their way and must be destroyed or at least thoroughly discredited.
The leftists are the real nuts.
Me too. I had a small typesetting shop in Asbury Park, NJ in those days and was walking to work. Outside was a buddy/customer who said "Kennedy has just been shot." It was so ridiculous I thought he was joking and replied in the same vein, "Those Republicans will do anything to get back in power".
He said it was true and I turned on the radio and was stunned. I thought sure the govt would institute Martial Law and went back home, broke out my loaded M1 carbine and sat on the sofa, waiting for the militia to be called up. After about 10 minutes I regained my sanity, put the gun away and went back to work and listened to all the theories on the radio. It was one Helluva traumatic few days. (I was a right-wing Republican then too.)