WATCH: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago tonight. Chet Huntley reported the news in an NBC News Special Report, seen here. King was in Memphis, Tenn., where sanitation workers, almost all of them black, had been on strike for weeks. The night before he was killed, King gave the last speech of his life, the famous “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, before an audience of striking workers and their supporters. He ended the speech by saying, "I don't know what will happen
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WATCH: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago tonight. Chet Huntley reported the news in an NBC News Special Report, seen here. King was in Memphis,
NBC News. . WATCH: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago tonight. Chet Huntley reported the news in an NBC News Special Report, seen here. King was in Memphis, Tenn., where sanitation workers, almost all of them black, had been on strike for weeks. The night before he was killed, King gave the last speech of his life, the ...
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MLK Speeches
More than 200,000 people listened as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963. https://abcn.ws/38lYv6Z #MLKDay | ABC News
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More than 200,000 people listened as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963. https://abcn.ws/38lYv6Z #MLKDay | ABC News
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes & Speeches
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5 MLK speeches you should know. Spoiler: 'I Have a Dream' isn't on the list
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Fifty years ago today, Robert F. Kennedy gave an iconic speech in Indianapolis, telling the crowd about Martin Luther King's assassination. The city was expected to riot, but instead, he calmed the crowd into silence. Watch Kennedy's full speech below. https://www.wthr.com/article/watch-robert-kennedy-gives-speech-in-indianapolis-after-mlks-assassination | WTHR-TV
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Fifty years ago today, Robert F. Kennedy gave an iconic speech in Indianapolis, telling the crowd about Martin Luther King's assassination. The city was expected to riot, but instead, he calmed the crowd into silence. Watch Kennedy's full speech below. https://www.wthr.com/article/watch-robert-kennedy-gives-speech-in-indianapolis-after-mlks-assassination | WTHR-TV
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When the news broke, the reaction was universal - devastating. Listen as Robert F. Kennedy informs a group of campaign supporters of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in this #HistoryFlashback. | HISTORY
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"It's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his bootstraps. And many Negroes, by the thousands and millions, have been left bootless … as the result of a society that deliberately made his color a stigma...” We have restored 26 minutes of video from this 1967 NBC News interview with MLK, where he discussed a "new phase" of the civil rights struggle 11 months before the assassination. nbcnews.to/2GRn0yN #MLK | NBC News
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