martin luther is officially marked as being outside of the tradition of the catholic church. of disloyalty. to be protestant meant you were loyal to the pope. >> narrator: after luther's defiance of king charles and the pope at the diet of vermes, a hard line is drawn among christians. >> the foundation of the reformation is that the church is the invisible gathering of all of those who confess christ in every time and in every place, and because this is not a temporal group of people there's no way there can be a temporal head of it. >> narrator: those aligned with martin luther protest the pope's divine claim to leading the catholic church and become known as protestants. they build lutheran churches throughout germany and scandinavia, focusing their teachings on scripture instead of loyalty to the pope. >> in the past when people don't want to receive catholicism, people could be burned for heresy, you could be tortured, you could be imprisoned. martin luther's not the first person that challenged the church, but he's probably the first person that lived to tell about it. >

martin luther king. thank you, martin luther king. >> thank you.e actions that came before us. it is the actions that still happen in memphis because of what dr. king said. it is when folks go into our most difficult schools and say this school deserves as great of a teachers and principals at any where else and the first state to have free community college and technical school for everybody in the state. it is when we have folks that say our judicial system is not only inequitiable, it is not working. and so on behalf of all of that, thank you. we thank the civil rights museum for putting on the celebration today and we look forward to continuing that work. thank you. [ applause ] >> announcer: welcome to the stage alpha phi alpha. >> my brother, our brother, this >> my brother, our brother, this brother, we remember brother reverend dr. martin luther king jr. i'm darryl lewis, president of alpha phi alpha and alpha delta lamb dah chapter here in memphis, tennessee. dr. king was and is a brother to all mankind who became a member of our fraternit

and68a look at civil rights race relations, including martin luther king -- martin luther .ing's first, here is walter concrete on april 4, 1968, announcing that martin luther king jr. has an shot and killed. >> good evening. dr. martin luther king, the apostle of nonviolence in the civil rights move it has been shot to death in memphis, tennessee. in all points bulletin for a young white man seen running from the scene. dr. king was standing on the balcony of his second-floor hotel room when according to a companion, a shot was fired from across the street. the bullet exploded in his face. he had been keeping a close eye on the nobel peace prize winner. they rushed the 39-year-old leader to a hospital where he died of a bullet wound to the neck. they found a high-powered hunting rifle a black way but it was not immediately identified as the murder weapon. curfew and aawn march erected in violence. calling out for thousand national guardsmen. the murder has touched off sporadic acts of violence. in a nationwide television address combination is shocked. >> america is shocked and sadden

kennedy and martin luther king, jr. >> he's a former legal affairs reporter from the "new york times," mr. david margolick, you're the author of "the promise and the dream," most people will link those two from those deaths in 1968, but they had a robust relationship, is that correct? >> david: robust is one way to describe it. complicated, difficult, sir ptitious, undercover, tense, evolving, those are all words you could use to describe it too. it was a relationship that was fraught -- i think from the would be one more good word and it changes greatly over the eight years they knew each other. they're bonded together in the public mind because they were killed in such a short period of time, in 1968 within a few weeks of one another, and linked in the public mind sentimentally. abraham martin and john walking over the hill together. but in fact their relationship was much more complicated than that. it started out badly. it grew over the years. one of the challenges in doing a book like this is to describe somehow how the same man who put a bug on martin luther king's telephone end

martin luther king. why this image? let me explain a little bit. we try to focus on what was in our collection. we have been collecting images now, portraits for 50 years. you will see a great diversity. in fact, the portrait gallery opened in 1968. that is an anniversary for us. this image of dr. martin luther king, he is at a news conference and he is announcing his great initiative for that year. a poor people's campaign. a big part of the campaign was what you see at the top, the march on washington. that occurred after his death. he did not live to see that. it continued and it went on. the march on washington occurred in mid-may. they arrived from all over the country arrived and stayed on the mall. they are alongside the reflecting pool and the lincoln memorial. they stayed there for six weeks to bring attention to the plight of the poor nationwide. thenknow sooner arrived the rains arrived. the rain created mud and before too many days, they were up to their ankles in mud. this is why we chose martin luther king. this image of him. it is a

martin luther king jr. as this significant figure, this iconic figure, king is really a political mobilizer and there are a number of different movements. so, there are movements within the movement. so, by 1967, we're seeing black power activists who are talking about community control all across the united states. they're talking about radical, social, political, cultural, self-determination. we've got groups like the student nonviolent coordinating committee, sncc, which professor cleaver was also a part of, who are talking about anti-war activism and anti-imperialism. we have the national welfare rights organization that's talking about poverty. in that way, by 1968, king is talking about a poor people's campaign and an antipoverty campaign, at the same time that you've got young black political radicals who are talking about everything from, you know, educational activism and the creation of black student unions, to anti-imperialist strategies and anticapitalist critiques. certainly the black panthers

martin luther king, jr. has been assassinated, and robert frvetion kennedy has been assassinated. the school has the first black principal, the segregated school, and they wanted to do something special and the school principal tells them everybody is watching us, so we can't show anger, we can't walk out like some other high schools are doing. so first, they went won the state basketball championship, and then 55 days later the all-black school went to state baseball championship, first time in the history of the state that the same school wins two championships in one year. the fact that they won it, against the backdrop of martin luther king's association, vietnam war protests and other school walk-outs gives it astonishing glory angle. >> host: how much of that was due to the principal. >> wil: he was an amazing man, and a football player at ohio state university, and he was feared ferocious about pride, he cared about the students. they also at the end of that year sent more kids to college -- more kids

we begin here with a photograph of doctor martin luther king. why this image, and let me explain a little bit why these images are, we tried to focus on what was in our collection, for the most part. we have been collecting images, now, for 50 years, and he will see great diversity of portraits here, the portrait gallery opened in 1968, so that's an anniversary for us. this image of doctor martin luther king, he is at a news conference, and he is announcing his initiative for that year for people's campaigns, and part of that campaign was a big part of the campaign was, the march on washington, poor people's march on washington. that occurred after his death, he didn't live to see that, but it continued and went on. the march in washington occurred in mid-may, they arrived from all over the country, arrived in mid-may, and stay on the mall, there right on the side of the 2nd , the lincoln memorial, for six weeks, ringing attention to the plight of the poor, nationwide. the rain, of course, created mud, and before too many days, they were up to t

martin luther king jr.tion into a beloved community where every person is treated with dignity and respect, and where every person has the opportunity to live up to their god-given potential. and yet here we are, o god, 50 years after his apotheosis and the nation seems to have gone backwards. racism has again lifted its serpentine head. violence is everywhere and our leaders still prepare for war. in these challenging and difficult times, we need you, o god, like never before. let your spirit fall on us. let your spirit fall on this land. let your spirit fall on our leaders and bring them to their senses. in these days, people are marching and crying out for social change and accountability. people are disturbed and upset by all they see happening around us. in these days, o god, let the words of your prophet become a reality among us when he said let justice roll down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream. thank you for the life he lived and the legacy he left us. give us the courage to live up

martin luther king has been shot to death in memphis, tennessee. all points bull ten placed for a young white man seen running from the scene. dr. king was standing on the balcony of a second floor hotel room when a shot was fired from across the street. in the friend's words, the bullet exploded in his face. >> on april, 1968, dr. king was assassinated. the national civil rights museum, we visit about dr. king's final days and what brought him to memphis. >> when we study the history of memphis, tennessee. there is pre-april 4, 1968 and post april 4, 1968. dr. king still had his nonviolence group following but after, you have the formation of groups such as the plan panther party and car michael calling out for black power. there is a split of which ideology and philosophy was the most effective way to combat civil rights. martin luther king became overshadowed by the young black militants. at the time, he was not receiving a high credibility in the black community. this was only supposed to be a detour to come to memphis. he had planned to come h

is why we chose martin luther king, this image, a 1968 image. it has been asked, why didn't we have something referring to his assassination? willnswer is, this room only hold 30-some images, we had to pick and choose. we can't tell the entire story of martin luther king, but we have a video in the corner of the room, and that fills in an awful lot of what we can't show on the wall. the next image besides martin "time"king is the magazine cover image of robert f in march announced his candidacy for the democratic party. he was antiwar. he was for a lot of things lyndon johnson was not for, and the two men never got along. and once kennedy entered the race, johnson knew that was it and he stepped aside. , themage we see here "time" cover, is the cover that appeared after kennedy's assassination in los angeles. it is a very somber image. kennedy was the peace candidate. he was doing very well, i think he just won the california time of hishe assassination. the thing i remember is the thatal train, the train left new york city to come to washington

ideas ofembrace the martin luther king and stokely carmichael.se are not exclusive on the ground. one important lesson of the meredith march, if people are interested in building coalitions as we move forward, how do we resist the negative trends in our lives today, what is that-- one lesson people of different political orientations can work together. there is a myth during the civil rights movement that everyone share the same goals and ideas. quite contrary, the civil rights movement is still filled with people debating ideas, coming at the movement from different angles. a successful social movement is not everyone believing in one tactic, rather, it is people with different ideologies working together towards a larger common goal. that is something that has lessons for us today. there are those of us who engage in direct activism, and others work through more established channels. those things can work together. ♪ >> memphis, tennessee is one of the most important music cities in the united states, and the history of the music here is in man

so john kennedy is running for president in 1960, and martin luther king is arrested. i'm sure you've heard of that story. and my uncle, john kennedy, calls coretta scott king, martin luther king's wife, to say i'm so sorry. and my father at first is horrified because he thinks how will that play in the south. then he thinks about it for 12 hours and realizes that it is ridiculous that martin luther king is sentenced in georgia to four months hard labor for a ticket, you know, a speeding ticket. he thinks that is completely ridiculous. so he doesn't call coretta scott king, he calls the judge. much more effective, right? so he gets him off immediately and gets him out of jail and gets him free. so at that point what would a normal person do when they get out of jail? they'd endorse the guy that got you out of jail but martin luther king is very self-righteous. that's how he gets to be where he gets to be, and says sometimes the politically astute is morally just and so he's not going to have anything to do with my uncle or my father. but luckily, daddy king, martin lut

i moved onto a street called martin luther king boulevard. i got my ba from stanford but my phd on the streets of newark. i was arrogant and full of myself law student, knocking on the door and saying, i am here to help you. i'm cory booker. and she looked at me like, boy, you are the one who needs some help. she will never appear in the history books, but she brought me down through the courtyard into martin luther king boulevard. the street with a legendary name. and this elderly woman looked up at me and said, before you can help me, tell me what you see. i said, what are you talking about? tell me about the street and community. i described what martin luther king boulevard looked like. i talked about the crackhouse on the street and the projects. the drug dealing. the more i talked, the more upset she looked. suddenly she said, you cannot , help me. she wheeled around and started walking away from me. i was confused. what does she mean? i ran after her and grabbed her from behind, very respectably, mind you. [laughter] she said, "the wor

martin luther king junior and so many people, but why him? >> i would say if you read dr. thurman and read dr. kenning you will so the influence. in many ways king was the person who applied much of what thurman talked about in of social reality i think he influenced people. many of the people you action. d are people committed it is said that king carried a copy of jesus and disinherited and those involved with social actives saw this extraordinary understand from gandhi and putting together his spin on it a way forward for people to deal with the most critical issues in american society. racism and all kinds of separation. so, he was -- than -- and then for king in particular the families knew each other. thurman knew dr. king's father. they were at morehouse together. >> that's right. >> and mrs. thurman knew martin luther kenning's mother because they were both daughters of baptist ministers and they met through baptist circles and so on and the families knew each other. so one of the things that was interesting is when dr. thurman was at boston university king was fin

and it started trying, i think, to follow the martin luther king example. and we can explore that later. but over the past 50 years, one of the things that we have to consider, i think, over this afternoon is the whole role of memory and commemoration because out of the civil rights movement you had the beginning of the conflict which we euphemistically call the troubles. and out of that, more than 3,700 people died which is the equivalent of half a million people here in the united states. so some might argue that the legacy of the demand for civil rights led to that violence. but out of that, we did get the agreement in 1998, hence the 20th anniversary. and now as we thought we were coming out of it through the agreement, but what we've had over the past 20 years has been a very negative piece. and we're -- we've moved from the local back to the local again. just as there's a febrile political atmosphere here in the united states, and i won't hammer the point, equally the same could be said for europe. and in our part of the world, the archipelago of grea

and68a look at civil rights race relations, including martin luther king -- martin luther .ing's first, here is walter concrete on april 4, 1968, announcing that martin luther king jr. has an shot and ed

in his namesake, martin luther king jr. we came out with heroes. harriet tubman, in the chinese admiral -- that we had a standalone. and the standalone was robert e lee. and that is because all of the figures in my life and my youth, he was the iconic leader. i went into lee high school, i went to west point, i live about 70 feet from his boyhood home right now. for me, he was the exemplar of leadership. it is complex to write about robert e lee now. and i have a compass relationship with his memory. but i didn't think i could honestly write a book about leaders without addressing the one i had probably spent the most time in my life thinking about. >> you said you sort of riata evaluated robert e lee and that you have thrown out -- wife you change your mind about that? >> my wife of 40 when yours is in the back. when i was a second lieutenant she spent $25 and bought me this painting of robert e lee. you get quite a painting for $25. framed! and it really was just a print of a more famous painting. and they painted clear acrylic on it. there we ha

you quote martin luther king. famous martin luther king line. it is long but bends toward justice. say, that is statement of faith. hope is a little bit different. how that bends. that?did you lapped on >> you know, it bends because people bend. he we say the system is broken. i was designed to be like that. my take away from that. he was designed. up.le made this god didn't make earth man and white supremacy. people made this up. you know, part of it is like -- [applause] plaus >> part of it is sitting in that reck his this is manmade. people made it up. can make it something better. also, i think about the tax bill. rewrite on scrap paper. 300-year solution. right. you know, they didn't read it. is like on notes on the top of somebody's scrap paper. biggest tax code in a generation. don't tell me i have to wait 300 years. i believe we can go do this quickly. he will say, a lot of people don't know the nuts and bolts. tell me something you can buy for $300. a something i could buy for $300. good pair of boots. >> a good pair of boots. in plor a, to this date. felony.0 is a lose th

martin luther, the protestant reformation and martin luther king, jr. we came out with heroes, harriet tubman. then we had a stand-alone. the stand-alone was general robert e. lee. we put robert e. lee because of all the figures in my life and my youth, he was the iconic leader. i went to west point like he did. i live about 70 feet from his boyhood home right now. for me, he was the exemplar of military and battlefield quality in leadership. and it's complex to write about robert e. lee now. i have a complex relationship with his memory. but i didn't think i could honestly write a book about leaders without addressing the one that i had probably spent the most time in my life thinking about. >> you said that you re-evaluated robert e. lee and there's a portrait [ inaudible ]. why is that? why did you change your mind about him? >> my wife of 41 years, annie, is in the back. when i was a second lieutenant, she spent 25 bucks and bought me this painting of robert e. lee. you get quite a painting for 25 bucks. framed. it was just a print of a more famous

he does not know he's martin luther king in neon. he's just martin luther king. conviction but it is 6:00 and morning and he has a new baby. when nixon calls him back he talks to abernathy and he wants to do it. -- i think this kind of detail makes it easier to .magine how we do it ourselves i think that is the other reason for a more detailed look at her and her life. among other civil rights history . i think it gives us to wait forward. weekend american history tv brings you 48 hours of unique programming exploring our nation's past. to view our schedule and archive of our programs visit c-span.org /history. >> this weekend on real america, 1974 conversation on women's rights with martha griffiths of michigan and patsy mink of hawaii. the u.s. information service posted the interview. equity --there in >>>> a woman's husband cannot draw on her social security and until i was a member of ways in and if she had been out of the workforce for a year and a half her own children could not draw if she died. one of the really incredible inequities came to my attention

that is the difference in much of the hard left today. >> you mentioned martin luther king jr.nd one of the things your book explores is a key difference between the two types of revolutions was the insistence that change takes time and transformation requires patience and by wondering the same speech when martin luther king talks about the promissory note he also talks about the fierce urgency of now and the fact that justice delayed is justice denied. how do you balance those ideas that change takes time with a recognition there can be a body count to the lack of justice extended. >> if you look at the history, the other three, the french, the russians, the chinese were all utopian. he just had to break a few things. whenever it's the possibility of change there is a gap between reality and th the ipo and its always field with coalition and of course that is when martin luther king was a pacifist. he wouldn't take to violence and that's the difference between some of us who followed them who are impatient. you could say go back. floyd douglass or william davidson. he was atta

where martin luther king was assassinated. that was trying times. thing about johnson, everybody don't like him but everybody over 65 ought to like him because that's when he signed medicare in. i'll let you go. >> richard, thank you. a real dichotomy between the foreign policy approach and the domestic policy by the johnson white house. >> i remember the first time i walked into the lbj library and i came in as a person who -- i remember the vietnam war. i had protested against it myself. and so i had this idea, oh, johnson, how many kids did you kill today as one of our viewers was saying earlier. and yet, the fact was that once you walk in there and you start to realize everything else that this man did, the barrel he was over in a way when it came to foreign policy, we forget there were five vietnam war presidents. truman got us really engaged in vietnam, eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, nixon. so this cold war logic, the sense that we had at all costs to maintain this pushback against the spread of communism really trapped people. what's so intere

martin luther king jr., coming to memphis. he was going to lead a march. and his ultimate goal is to get the washington dc later that month for his proposed poor people's campaign. segregationists and those opposing his mission at this time are saying he cannot have a controlled march in memphis, there is no way that he will be successful in washington. dr. king is extremely taken aback by this. not only that, but he has a rift in his own group. there are members that want to go to washington, others that believe that they should be here in memphis. so he is against a lot of pressure, scrutiny and distress during the weeks leading up to his assassination. 1968, he arrived here in segregation was the law of the land. we still lived in the jim crow south. so there were white and colored signs appearing in all public facilities and accommodations. when dr. king returns in 1968, the civil rights act of 1964 has been passed, eliminating jim crow in america. the voting rights bill is signed in 1965, giving africa

for coverage of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of martin luther king jr.'s assassination on april 4 1968. next, a ceremony remembering what is known as reverend king's mountaintop speech given at the mason temple the night before he was killed. speakers include two of his children bernice king and martin luther king the third as well as injury young who was with reverend king at the time of his shooting. the church of god and christ and the american federation of state and federal municipal counties hosted the event. >>> citizens and brothers, the church of god and christ welcome you to the 2018 mountaintop memorization with a special musical performance by judith mcallister and the southwind high school choir.

i said, i follow the thoughts of martin luther king jr. protestant el -- the elegy phd -- theology phd. the onus on us, when we have the winning principles in the first place, that will be my project. has been putting the big ideas, the. igo ideas together with the economic semi politics. back to the drawing board. we have to win over the american people on those set of ideas. >> do you go back to academia? what is next? rep. brat: some combination of economics -- academic but keeping a couple feet in the swamp. trying to educate the american people on these ideas. we can't win folks over. everybody talks about unity. the first principle used to be in god we trust. it seems like a pretty good motto. that was the first principle for civ.of western eastern traditions, it even, you can do the analogous. the first mover and aristotle is god. what shall we unite around? you are to unite around the first principle. it seems to be that would work. friends,n-american baptist tradition protestants, hispanics, catholics. hindu friends. it doesn't ma

martin luther king jr. was born is sold. we'll tell you who bought it. si! colgate optic white. that works. they are ridiculous when they first wake up.unkin'? daddy walks into the walls like he's a bumper car. your dunkin' doesn't make you, you... but it helps. delicious dunkin' donuts coffee. pick some up where you buy groceries. >>> here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. ♪ >>> it's beginning to look a lot like 2019 in new york city's time square. seven-foot tall numbers that will be used in the city's iconic new year's eve display were delivered yesterday. the giant 1 and 9 were set up on the street and they'll be on display for about a week before being hoisted into the air to spell out 2019 for the new year's eve ball drop. the ball drop has been a city tradition since 1907. >>> the atlanta home where martin luther king jr. was born has a new owner. it was sold to the park service. for reported $1.9 million. each year thousand of tourists flock to the home where the civil rights act activity was born in nineteen twenty nine. it was bought by hi

bobby kennedy assassination, martin luther king assassination , the tet offensive in vietnam, soviet invasion of prague, more bleedinge world was from wounds. in summer 1968, a handful of people at nasa realize there was a way to right the ship of the dividend redeem the year and the country. this was one year after the apollo 1 fire. the dream of getting to the moon by 1970 seemed completely beyond reach. the spacecraft had to be built from the bottom up. the saturn five rocket was not working. the lunar module was hopeless. here we were in the summer of 1968, 16 month before president kennedy's deadline and that guys at nasa, and they were all men at the time come and not including the women from "hidden figures" who did extraordinary work, said we can fix his command module and saturn five, and if we do this work and do it fast and get our guys trained and catch a couple of breaks, we can be in lunar orbit in 16 weeks and kickstart this program, and they did it. >> you mentioned the people who made this happen. it's about the people who put this effort into it. do they draw you as

she encouraged martin luther king. she encouraged a sit in. eleanor roosevelt to roosevelt house when i was a student at hunter. i was president at student council. i invited her to speak to us in 1961. and she said wonderful things are happening, go south for freedom. so we took two buses and went to north carolina. eleanor roosevelt was supporting siddons, the civil rights movement, from the 1940's until the end of her life. she was delighted. -- and there is a wonderful new book. booksare a few wonderful about eleanor roosevelt and polly murray. she called eleanor roosevelt the mother of the women's movement and the conscience of us all. and that is really eleanor roosevelt with civil rights. >> what a perfect place to end. [applause] blanche: thank you. thank you. paul: thank you. [applause] tofrom george washington george w. bush, every sunday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern, presidency," a weekly series exploring the presidents, their politics, policies, and legacies. you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c

martin luther king boulevard. a legendary name. and this elderly woman looked up to me and said, before you can help me, tell me what you see. tell me about the street and could -- and community. i described what it looked like. i talked about the crackhouse on the street and the projects. the drug dealing. the more i talked, the more upset she looked. she said, you cannot help me. she wheeled away from me. grabbed herher and from behind, very respectably. [laughter] world you see outside of you is the reflection of what is inside you. if you only see problems and darkness, that is all you will see. but if every time you open your eyes you see hope and possibility and the face of god, you can be somebody who helps me. [applause] i am looking at a gathering of some stubborn americans. who have never given up on the ideals of the country. ms. jones taught me that the definition of hope is not that you see light at the end of the tunnel or something on the horizon that gives you hope. it is generated from within. it is the conviction

speakers include two of his children, bernice king and martin luther king iii as well as andrew young who was with reverend king at the time of his shooting. the church of god in christ and the american federation of state, county and municipal employees co-hosted this event. >>> sisters and brothers, the church of god in christ welcome you to the i am 2018 mountain top commemoration with a special musical performance by judith mcallister and the south wind high school choir. ♪

martin luther king had been shot, and pulled you into her bedroom and asked you to get on your kneesnd pray for him. >> that's right. >> and you tell a story about how your reaction wasn't sadness, it wasn't tears, but it was that you were indignant. >> i was angry. i was 8 years old, but i'll never forget that day. it was a rainy day. in louisiana, it's always raining. but it was a rainy day, and it was a kind of drizzle that you couldn't go out and play. you had to come inside, and yet my grandmother called us into her bedroom, and she wanted us to get on our knees. she had learned that dr. king had been shot. we didn't know if he survived the assassination attempt, and so she wanted us to pray. we were catholics, and we started praying, and when we finished praying, my grandmother said, "wait." and we're like, "what?" and she's like, "we have to also pray for his family." we went back and prayed for his family. and this was -- margaret, you would probably have felt the same way as an 8-year-old child. she said, "we now have to pray for the murderer or the person who tried to kill

i moved onto a street called martin luther king boulevard. got my ba from stanford but my phd on the streets of newark. i was arrogant and full of myself law student, knocking on the door and saying, i am here to help you. and she looked at me like, boy, you are the one who needs some help. she brought me down through the courtyard into the street. martin luther king boulevard. a legendary name. -- i described what it looked like. and this elderly woman looked up to me and said, before you can help me, tell me what you see. tell me about the street and community. i talked about the crackhouse on the street and the projects. the drug dealing. the more i talked, the more upset she looked. she said, you cannot help me. she wheeled away from me. i ran after her and grabbed her from behind, very respectably, by the way. [laughter] she said, "the world you see outside of you is the reflection of what is inside you. if you only see problems and darkness, that is all you will see. but if every time you open your eyes you see hope and possibility and

but the assassinations of martin luther king jr. and robert f. kennedy dealt shattering blows. our guests are kathleen kennedy townsend, rfk's daughter, and former lieutenant governor of maryland, and michael cohen, author of "american maelstrom, the 1968 election and the politics of division." first, we hear from senator robert f. kennedy during his march 16th, 1968, presidential campaign announcement. >> i have traveled and listened to the young people of our nation and felt their anger about the war that they are sent to fight and about the world that they are about to inherit. in private talks and in public, i have tried in vain to alter our course in vietnam before it further saps our spirit and our manpower. further raises the risks of wider war and further destroys the country and the people it was meant to save. i cannot not stand aside from the contest that will decide our nation's future and our children's future. the remarkable new hampshire campaign of senator eugene mccarthy has proven how deep are the present divisions within our party and within our country. unti

martin luther king jr.at dream they had that day has in many points turned into a nightmare. >> reporter: for more than a decade, he had helped awaken this country to racial injustice. he won the nobel peace prize. >> we have to say in no uncertain times that racism is alive and on the throne in american society. >> reporter: but by 1968, militant young blacks had grown impatient for king's non-violent approach. >> we will shoot the cops who are shooting our black brothers in the back in this country. >> reporter: dr. king stood his ground. >> well, i'm still convinced their non-violence has not ended. >> stop the bombing and stop the war. >> reporter: he began speaking out against the war in vietnam. but some civil rights leaders saw that as a distraction and after years of confronting segregation in the south, he turned north targeting poverty and economic injustice. >> it's much easier to integrate a lunch counter than to guarantee an annual income. >> reporter: revered by millions, king was also hated a

. >> host: at the same time give the influence of martin luther king. >> guest: martin luther king came to los angeles after the riots. only kenneth came to talk to him in city government, and he left the next day and on the way out a reporter says well, what do you think that los angeles can do to make things better? and king said with the representatives you have, there's nothing you can do. he just left. this is a man who'd been fighting for equal rights in mississippi, alabama, but los angeles he said, he just threw up his hands, i'm leaving. >> host: your thoughts as we approach the 50th anniversary of his assassination next week, april 4 that is coming up. >> guest: you know, martin luther king said a a great thig once to a friend of mine. they were talking and king said, you know, as i look at the news and to see what's happening in the world, i think that we may be trying to integrate ourselves into a burning house. my friend said, well, so if that's the case, what should we do? he said, we're going to have to become fire. and that's, you know, whether it's the 50th anniversary

he was a friend of martin luther king. >> the republican party was the party of civil rights.n a segregation. every member of the ku klux klan was a member of the democratic party. >> just three weeks before the election, martin luther king is arrested. he and 50 other african americans had entered a whites-only restaurant. >> the police were called. they refused to move. and they were all put in jail. including king. it got even worse when he was transferred in the middle of the night to a state penitentiary in rural georgia. >> and he's a risk there. his wife is afraid he's going to get killed. >> this is nixon's golden opportunity to rescue dr. king and scoop the black vote. discover a new take on nude. matte ink un-nude from maybelline new york. unconventional, unexpected nudes. liquid matte formula. up to 16 hour wear. go un-nude with attitude. maybelline's matte ink un-nude. only from maybelline new york. missed out on this. don't worry, the biggest deal is happening right now at t-mobile. when you buy one of the latest sumsung phones you get a free 50" samsung 4k tv. se

she encourage martin luther king. she encouraged the citizens -- sit-ins. the student nonviolent coordinating committee. i invited eleanor roosevelt to the roosevelt house when i was a student at hunter. i was president of the student council and i invited her to come speak to us in 1961. she said wonderful things are happening. go south for freedom. we took two buses and went to north carolina. eleanor roosevelt was supporting students, sit-ins, the civil rights movement from the 40's to the end of her life. she was delighted. a wonderfulay -- new book, three new books about eleanor roosevelt and pauline m urray. eleanor roosevelt called her the firebrand, but she called eleanor roosevelt the mother of the women's movement and the conscience of us all. >> you can watch the entire program sunday night on the presidency at 8:00 p.m. and 12:00 midnight eastern on american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. first fence along the u.s.-mexico border intended for cattle was built in the early 1900s. penn state professor mary mendoza talks about ho

martin luther king assassinated in memphis, tennessee. hubert humphrey, the vice president entering the race in 1968. then senator kennedy winning the california primary shot at midnight on the day after the victory and dies on june 6, 1968. richard nixon accepting the republican nomination in august of that year. later in august hubert humphrey accepting the democratic nomination. amidst the riots, president nixon was elected in 1968. we want to welcome barbara perry from the miller center. thank you for joining us. and pat buchanan, for purposes of this discussion, was a military aide. pat, let me ask you about the resignation of lyndon johnson. where were you? >> i was at nixon's apartment. we were having a debate about nixon's speech he was going to give that afternoon. we were having an argument. nixon was moving toward a more dovish position on the war, or about to, when we got word from cbs that lyndon johnson had been asked for time sunday night. so nixon was going to wisconsin the next day, and he told me, pat, i want you to be o

mary: in the book, you quote the famous martin luther king line, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. hope is a little different. hope is how that arc bends. where did you land on that? deray: the arc bends because people bend it. when people say the system is and we say no, it was designed like that. my take away is that it was designed. god didn't make white supremacy. people made this up. >> [laughter] [applause] deray: part of it is sitting in that recognition this is made up. if they can write the tax bill on scrap paper, don't tell me that the end of mass incarceration is a 300 year solution. don't tell me i have to wait 200, 300 years to get to the bottom of this stuff. i believe we can do this quickly. a lot of people don't know the nuts and bolts. tell me something you could buy for $300. mary: a good pair of boots. deray: in florida to this day, theft over $300 is a felony. and you lose the right to vote. that is a wild thing. if you ask people who is a felon -- killed a bunch of people, blew up a building -- nope, stole a pair of boots. right

bay area news, police in palo alto are investigating a deadly shooting at martin luther king park. we are learning more about the latest on the investigation from the police headquarters with our reporter. >> i just got the latest from police. they said a shot spotter activation alerted them that a shooting was taking place in the neighborhood. the street was reopened after it was blocked off almost all morning long. ithappened just before 12:30 a.m. neighbors tell us that they heard two or three gunshots. the first responand not breathing. >> they got there and they found a 19-year-old hispanic male, he was down. they checked the vitals. paramedics responded. at that point in time, they announced the person is dead. >> east palo alto police sent - - they set up markers, but have not said what led up to the shooting. the victim has not yet been identified. police say that he was a resident of east palo alto. at this time they are still searching for the suspect. they believe that the suspect and the victims knew each other. in east palo alto, lee martinez. >>> a 19-year-old is accu

critics say the deal would give the martin luther king jr -- -- marlboro maker. >>> now at 7:00, we'rea lot of fog moving all over the bay area. meteorologist mark tomiao tracking how long it's sticking around and sal is watching our morning commute. >>> a san francisco police officer already suspended for sending racist text messages is now charged with bank robbery. the evidence being used to link him to the crime. >>> good morning, from cal berkley running right on time. buses that bring toys up north to children affected by the northern california fires this year, we'll have a live story on that coming up in just a minute. >>> it's 7:00 on the dot this thursday morning, i'm gasia mikaelian. >> and i'm dave clark. did you bring the fog in with you. >> it was there and i woke up. >> me too. mark has been talking about it all morning good morning, it could be tricky. be prepared for that. 0 out towards the central valley and sacramento,

martin luther king could are never been elected.anybody in mainstream politics now is going to eventually be swallowed up by the plutocracy. >> let's get a few more perspectives. towards the back. i saw you don't use research assistance so take that you lazy -- who recite on -- who rely on poor graduate students. >> i don't how to supervise them. they say what should i look at? i don't know what i look at it myself. [laughing] one time i discovered come washington sent general howe his dog confound his dog from a greyhound on the battlefield and send it back. i thought if i had a research assistant they would have never found that sucker. they would have never noticed it. so there are things like raisins in the dough that you, that's what you read, that's what you do research for. >> to be fair that would've been the one tail i told you. >> i want to ask the question you invite about washington's view of the rest of the continent and the role of native americans and the future of thi this. >> washington was born into a world in whic

just before 9:00, officers were called to thef intersection martin luther king jr.lm x avenues. stwo people werehot and police victim. identified the >> police did not find anything after t investigation into a bomb threat that was called into cnn late last night. the caller serd there we five bombs planted in the time warner building. it wasat evacu as a precaution and some liv broadcasts were interrupted. the same building was evacuated october when a pipe bomb was discovered there. >> the search is on in d. right now. >> police are working to track down a kidnapper after an armed abduction. d.c. police say around 3:30 thursday morning, a man armed with a knife broke into a home on west virginia avenue in northeast. the suspect then kidnapped the couple inside, drove them to an atm a forced them to take out money. if you recognize this man, police want to hea fromyou. >> today, special counsel robert mueller is exp tted to fil sentencing memos in the russia investigion. one may detail why mueller ncelled a cooperation agreement with paul manafort. the president's

there was the bobby kennedy assassination, martin luther king assassination, riots in the u.s., riots at the democratic convention, the tet offensive in vietnam, the soviet invasion of prague, more riots in mexico city, paris. the world was bleeding from a thousand self-inflicted wounds. and then in the summer of 1968, a handful of people at nasa realized there was a way to right the ship of the space program and as a dividend sort of redeem the year and redeem the country. remember, this was one year after the apollo 1 fire. nasa had lost three astronauts on a launch pad fire. the dream of getting to the moon by 1970 seemed completely beyond reach now. the spacecraft had to be built from the bottom up. the saturn 5 rocket wasn't working. the lunar module was hopeless, nowhere ready to make a landing. here we were in the summer of '68, 16 months before president kennedy's guideline. and the guys at nasa, and they were all men at the time, not including the women from request"hidden figures" who did extraordinary work, but they said we can fix this command module and we can fix this sa