2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden mistakenly said during a Tuesday speech that the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. happened “in the late ’70s.”
Comparing present times with how things were when he was young, Biden said, “Just like in my generation, when I got out of school, when Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King had been assassinated in the ’70s, the late ’70s when I got engaged.” Kennedy and King were murdered within months of each other in 1968.
Biden then seemingly reverted back to the correct decade, referencing the cultural trends that roiled the country in the 1960s. He married his first wife, Neilia Hunter, in 1966.
The misstatement is the latest in a series of gaffes from the former vice president, who within the past weeks has said poor kids are “just as bright” as white kids and claimed he was vice president in 2018 during the Parkland mass shooting, among other things.
