Actor Charlie Sheen has compared the killing of US conservative commentator Charlie Kirk to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored, the former Two and a Half Men star suggested Kirk’s death would be remembered as a defining moment for the younger generation.
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“I think, for this generation, that’s their JFK moment,” Sheen remarked, adding that such events felt “too surreal to process” and could not become a recurring reality. He stressed the sense of unfairness surrounding the shooting and warned that society should not become accustomed to such tragedies.
Asked by Morgan about his first reaction to Kirk’s death, Sheen explained that his thoughts immediately turned to the commentator’s family. “I first thought about his fatherless children, his wife instantly a widow,” he said. “I didn’t care about any of the politics, any of the social or cultural aspects at first. I immediately thought just of the family dynamic and the value of what was ripped from them forever in a picosecond.”
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News of Kirk’s death broke while Sheen was being interviewed on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. The 31-year-old commentator was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on 10 September. He was taken to hospital but later died from his injuries.
