I have vivid memories of what Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of doing. That whole spring of 1968 was a violent one, with Martin Luther King being killed before Easter, and RFK killed before Memorial Day.
Notice I say ‘convicted of doing’. Jury is still out on whether Sirhan was under drugged hypnosis for his part in that assasination. Midazolam: the Forget Me Now drug was introduced in 1976, but there may have been versions around long before that.
Well, Librium came to market in 1960, and Valium was approved in 1963. Both are benzos similar to Versed (midazolam), but don’t have quite the same response.