Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court.

This is Hans von Spockowski, and you're listening to Case in Point, and the name of our episode

today is prosecuting an assassin.

In 1865, Vice President Andrew Johnson said that he was overwhelmed by the assassination

of President Lincoln.

When Lyndon B. Johnson arrived at Andrews Air Force Base in 1963 after the assassination

of President Kennedy, he said, quote, it is a sad time for all people, and we have suffered

a loss that cannot be weighed.

When Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated, President Johnson said, quote,

it's a time of tragedy and loss for the nation.

And when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Johnson not only expressed America's

shock and sadness, but he asked, quote, every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck Dr. King who lived by nonviolence.

What I thought was a very appropriate statement for the similar tragedy we have just experienced with the assassination of Charlie Kirk, someone

who pushed nonviolence and civil discourse, even on very contentious issues.

He's been struck down by an assassin's bullet to a profound shock, sadness, and anger of

the American people.

The man that authorities believe is the assassin based on the evidence already gathered has been arrested.

But what happens now is the continued investigation by federal and state law enforcement,

the gathering of further evidence, forensic analysis, and state and perhaps

federal criminal prosecution of the defendant and possibly other defendants if law enforcement

determines that others were involved.

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