John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. While campaigning for reelection in Dallas, he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald from the sixth story of a nearby building. A tremendous amount of controversy surrounds Kennedy's assassination. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated while speaking on a balcony at a motel in Memphis. He was killed by James Earl Ray, a white racist. In more than one hundred cities, blacks took to the streets in anger. The riots led to 46 deaths and 27,000 arrests. The immediate and lasting effects of the death of Martin Luther King on America are impossible to quantify.

Malcolm X was shot and killed in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem on February 21,1965. Unlike JFK and MLK, Malcolm was living in a state of panic. Two weeks earlier, his house had been firebombed. The men arrested for his death were three members of the Nation of Islam, though the truth behind the assassination remains mysterious.

The author of the passage characterizes the 1960s as a turbulent time in America because?

a
the nation was going through a lot of social change very quickly.
b
not much was happening in the country at the time.
c
several prominent people were assassinated in just a few years.
d
the sixties saw a flowering of art and culture in America.

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