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kydo

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Mon Jan 19, 2015, 09:14 PM Jan 2015

Watching The Smithsonian Channel's - MLK: The Assassination Tapes

I saw this program before. Very good program on the sanitation workers strike and the events surrounding the assassination of MLK.

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/mlk-the-assassination-tapes/0/141155

MLK: The Assassination Tapes

April 4, 1968. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is gunned down on the balcony of a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. It was all caught on film, tape and audio. So why have we seen so little of it? The well-known photograph of Dr. King's aides pointing toward the direction of the gunfire is iconic, but tells only part of the story. For the first time, a remarkable collection of recently rediscovered footage has been chronologically reassembled. The resulting documentary allows us to revisit the tumultuous events surrounding one of the most shocking assassinations in America and relive history through the voices of the era
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