America in '68: The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Part 2)

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  Shopify.co.uk restfishistory Ladies and gentlemen, I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening because I have some very sad news for all of you and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.

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  Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings.

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  He died and the cause of that effort.

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  In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.

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  For those of you who are black, you can be filled with bitterness and with hatred and a desire for revenge.

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  We can move in that direction as a country in greater polarization.

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  Black people amongst blacks and white amongst whites filled with hatred toward one another.

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  Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land with an effort to understand compassion and love.

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  So that was Robert F.

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  Kennedy on the 4th of April, 1968, speaking to a crowd in Indianapolis, a crowd that was largely black, and who, when Bobby Kennedy stood up to give that speech, didn't know that Martin Luther King had been shot.

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  So at the beginning of that interview, you listen to it, you can hear, I assume, Kennedy's aides in the background kind of talking about, do they know?

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  Do people know?

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