king was killed on april 4 and james earl ray was not caught until a month later. so the country felt that there had been no accountability for this white sniper who had gunned down one of the great leaders of the 20th century. >> i had completely forgotten about that month when james earl ray was on the run and the sort of -- that exact sense of -- the sense, though, of unequal justice seems to be also what is sort of pervaded this week in the sense that people -- no one feels in some sfratrange way th they're getting a fair shot. >> i agree with this, but one of the things that i think that we're all sort of dancing around in our national discourse of this, chris, is that we're refusing to acknowledge that there is a certain percentage of our population which is angry in a way that goes beyond political that barack obama is our president and they don't like if simply because of the color of his skin. and that has animated them in ways that i think have ban gone for many decades, but it has come back. and i think that that is a part of our psyche and we need to co

king was killed on april 4th, and james earl ray was not caught until a month later. so the country felt there had been no accountability for this white sniper who had gunned down one of the great leaders of the 20th century. >> you know what, i had completely forgotten about that month when james earl ray was on the road and the sort of -- that exact sense of -- no one is -- yes, this is just going to happen and no one is going to be held to account. the sense, jim, you talk about this feeling, nothing's changed. yet there are all sorts of ways in which racial disparities remain starkly persistent over a long period of time, whether that's educational segregation post the 1970s, whether that's incarceration, homicide rates, et cetera. the sense of inequal justice seems to be pervading this week, in the sense that no one feels in some strange way like they're getting a fair shot. >> one of the things i think, and i agree with this, but one of the things i think we're all sort of dancing around in our national discourse of this, chris, is that we're refusing to acknowl

five days later, james earl ray gunned down martin luther king in memphis re-igniting a series of race riots nationwide including chicago and chicago is where robert f. kennedy was hoping to win the democratic nomination i "my thanks to all of you and now it's on to chicago and let's win there." but sirhan sirhan assassinated himin the kitchen of the ambassador hotel two months before he got the chance. "oh god he's dead! why?!" the nation was ripping at the seams under a now-deeply fractured democratic leadership. "good evening from chicago for the thirty-fifth democratic national convention." when the convention began, johnson's vice-president hubert humphrey was the front-runner despite not taking part in any of the primaries. humphrey was determined to continue the war policies of his former running mate. that guaranteed anti war protestors would show up to get their message across. "much of the security we spoke of earlier is to head off any possible demonstrations by the many protest groups that are here." "we don't trust the democratic party. we don't trust the republican party.

it's not vietnam, there aren't 548 americans dying every week and we haven't had a james earl ray orhan sirhan yet to assassinate our leaders, but whether it's zika, istanbul, orlando, events are in the saddle and things are not going to get better and it's a dreary, political landscape right now. >> woodruff: this is a year where there has been, david, a loft anger in the political conversation. how do the events of the week play into that? >> it's a period of bad feeling. when bad filings happen, walls go up and things close. we're losing a lot of closeness, whether open trade, open people and conversations, some of that's closing, at least the impulses in a lot of society, including n.a.t.o. between eastern and western europe, a lot of walls going up and a lot of candidates proposing walls going up. so when people are in a period of bad mood, then they want to hunker down and protect, and that's the exact opposite from what we need now. let's be frank, it doesn't help that we have an american political debate with basically one all white party and that just means we fall along ver