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edgar hoover got permission from bobby kennedy to put microphones and his motel and tape martin luther king and blackmail him. is that correct? mr. tye: the first half of what you said is absolutely correct. j. edgar hoover kept going back to bobby kennedy wanting to wiretap martin luther king. the reason he wanted to wire tap him was because there was a fear, and a fear that hoover fans, i think without any convincing evidence, that there were leftists and communists in martin luther king's hierarchy. and at the moment, j. edgar hoover survived through endless attorneys general and presidents, because he always had some dirt on somebody, and he knew exactly the moment to ask what he wanted. he asked repeatedly for the authority to wiretap and in the end, bobby kennedy gave it to him, without defending the decision at all, for a strategic reason. the kennedys were about to propose a major civil rights bill, and the most embarrassing thing to the world for them would have been if a bunch of leftists had turned up in martin luther king's camp. hoover would have used the informatio earss the k
edgar hoover got permission from bobby kennedy to put microphones and his motel and tape martin luther king and blackmail him. is that correct? mr. tye: the first half of what you said is absolutely correct. j. edgar hoover kept going back to bobby kennedy wanting to wiretap martin luther king. the reason he wanted to wire tap him was because there was a fear, and a fear that hoover fans, i think without any convincing evidence, that there were leftists and communists in martin luther king's...
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that martin luther king is gone. you can hear if you listen on youtube to the speech from that night -- you can hear gasps from the audience, that people are devastated. he proceeds for the first time in his life to talk about what it is like to lose his own brother and the anger he had had beenkennedy killed. he said our temptation is to want to strike out when something like that happens when what we have to do is just the opposite. we have to come together as people of this audience and as a country at this moment of trauma . what happened that night in indianapolis was quite extraordinary. that in a country, that night of martin luther king's death, when there were race riots in more than 100 cities, when in wasington part of the city burned down that night, there that hadity in america a sizable african-american population that stayed peaceful that night, and the city was -- >> philadelphia. >> indiana. mr. tye: this is great. indianapolis stayed peaceful because bobby kennedy had found the pitch perfect tone. i
that martin luther king is gone. you can hear if you listen on youtube to the speech from that night -- you can hear gasps from the audience, that people are devastated. he proceeds for the first time in his life to talk about what it is like to lose his own brother and the anger he had had beenkennedy killed. he said our temptation is to want to strike out when something like that happens when what we have to do is just the opposite. we have to come together as people of this audience and as a...
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martin luther king jr.reness of all men that we must unite in compassion in order to survive. >> the best picture nominees that year were genuinely controversial and influential. movies like "bonnie and clyde," "the graduate," "guess who's coming to dinner," "in the heat of the night," both trying to address racism and race relations. >> virgil, that's a funny name. for a negro man. i heard you come from philadelphia. what did they call you up there? >> they called me mr. tibbs. >> "in the heat of the night," sidney poitier was playing a black man who was strong, who was smart, who was decisive. the movie takes place in the deep south. >> let me understand this. you two came here to question me? >> we were just trying to clarify some of the evidence. was mr. colbert ever in this greenhouse, say last night about midnight? >> this is 1968. you don't have black men hitting white men in movies and getting away with it and living to tell the tale, anyways, and he does. >> there was a time when i could have had y
martin luther king jr.reness of all men that we must unite in compassion in order to survive. >> the best picture nominees that year were genuinely controversial and influential. movies like "bonnie and clyde," "the graduate," "guess who's coming to dinner," "in the heat of the night," both trying to address racism and race relations. >> virgil, that's a funny name. for a negro man. i heard you come from philadelphia. what did they call you up...
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jr.964, martin luther king gave a speech in page auditorium to an overflowed crowd. students who could not get a seat listened from outside on the lawn. dr. king warned them that someday, we would all have to atone not only for the words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and in difference of the good people -- and indifference of the good people who say weight on time -- wait on time. [applause] tim: martin luther king stood right here at duke and said the time is always right to do right. for you graduates, that time is now. it will always be now. your brick todd the path of progress. it is time for all of us to move forward. and it is time you to lead the way. thank you, and congratulations class of 2018. [cheers and applause] tim: thank you. wow. thank you. thank you. [applause] announcer: former stanford university john thain -- stanford university president john hennessy became president of alphabet. he delivers the commencement address at indiana university in bloomington. this is 10 minutes. [applause] john: thank you. members of the
jr.964, martin luther king gave a speech in page auditorium to an overflowed crowd. students who could not get a seat listened from outside on the lawn. dr. king warned them that someday, we would all have to atone not only for the words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and in difference of the good people -- and indifference of the good people who say weight on time -- wait on time. [applause] tim: martin luther king stood right here at duke and said the time is...
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martin luther king a month earlier. kennedy gave the students a call to action. when you look across this country, and when you see peoples' lives held back by discrimination and poverty, when you see injustice and h inequality. he said, you should be the last people to accept things as they are. let kennedy's words echo here today. yoe the lteoe to accept it.ou whatever path you've chosen, be it medicine, business, engineering, the humanities, whatever drives your passion. be the laso acct the notion that the world you inherit cannot be improved. be the last to accept the excuse that says, that's just how things are done here. duke graduates, you should be the last people to accept it. and you should be the first to change it. [applause] the world-class educaon y've ivou've worked so hard for, gives you opportunities that few people have. you are uniquely qualified, and therefore uniquely responsible, to build a better way forward. that won't be easy.wa it will require great courage. but that courage will not only help you live your life to the fullest, it will
martin luther king a month earlier. kennedy gave the students a call to action. when you look across this country, and when you see peoples' lives held back by discrimination and poverty, when you see injustice and h inequality. he said, you should be the last people to accept things as they are. let kennedy's words echo here today. yoe the lteoe to accept it.ou whatever path you've chosen, be it medicine, business, engineering, the humanities, whatever drives your passion. be the laso acct the...
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we see people on the news and social media saying, "why can't these protesters be more like martin luther kinghe was civil. that's why he named it the 'civil rights.'" but what you forget is back when martin was marching, people were complaining about him, the same way these people are complaining about protesters right now. >> people of georgia are sick and tired of martin luther king. wherever he's been, he's attempted to stir up strife and disorder and violence. >> the best thing for king to do is to get out of alabama as quickly as he can because he's a menace to the peace of this city. >> martin luther king and his coterie of troublemakers who jump about the south like so many fleas on a hot griddle and cause racial rashes where none have heretofore existed. >> trevor: wow, racists back then were so elegant-- "a coterie, a coterie." ( laughter ) and i like that he sailtz martin luther king created racial tension where none existed. like martin luther king went into the south and went, "you all are black! what!" ( cheers and applause ) i know, i know that those leaders may have been racist
we see people on the news and social media saying, "why can't these protesters be more like martin luther kinghe was civil. that's why he named it the 'civil rights.'" but what you forget is back when martin was marching, people were complaining about him, the same way these people are complaining about protesters right now. >> people of georgia are sick and tired of martin luther king. wherever he's been, he's attempted to stir up strife and disorder and violence. >> the...
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in 1964, martin luther king jr. gave a speech at page auditorium to an overflow crowd. students who couldn't get a seat, listened from outside in the lawn. dr. king warned them that some day we would all have to atone not only for the words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who stood around and say wait on time. martin luther king stood right here at duke and said the time is always right to do right. for you graduates, that time is now. it will always be now. it is time to add the brick to the path of progress. it is time for all of us to move forward. and it is time for you to lead the way. thank you, and congratulations, class of 2018! [applause] >> thank you. wow. thank you. [applause] >> former stanford university president, jean hennessey become parent of google in corporated in february. next the computer scientist and textbook author delivers the address in bloomington at indiana university. this is 10 minutes. >> thank you.
in 1964, martin luther king jr. gave a speech at page auditorium to an overflow crowd. students who couldn't get a seat, listened from outside in the lawn. dr. king warned them that some day we would all have to atone not only for the words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who stood around and say wait on time. martin luther king stood right here at duke and said the time is always right to do right. for you graduates, that time is...
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martin luther king jr. room was chosen because it was the most insular room in the house and the phone calls sometimes lasted for hours. so that is the actual phone in which dr. king would receive the president's phone calls. that came into this house. things were very volatile. the country was aware of how volatile things were in selma. and in the south. so, dr. king and the president kept, i don't want to say regular calls, but they did have a direct connection on a semifrequent basis to discuss what was going on, what would repair the country, and exactly what both men needed to keep this country on track and to keep violence down. >> then we've got to come up with the qualification of voters. that will answer 70% of your problems. >> that's right. no tests on what chaucer or browning said. you will have to take it to the postmaster >> the dining room in the jackson museum is very much a foundation for this house. it is not only the place where my mother and father and i shared so many wonderful dinners,
martin luther king jr. room was chosen because it was the most insular room in the house and the phone calls sometimes lasted for hours. so that is the actual phone in which dr. king would receive the president's phone calls. that came into this house. things were very volatile. the country was aware of how volatile things were in selma. and in the south. so, dr. king and the president kept, i don't want to say regular calls, but they did have a direct connection on a semifrequent basis to...
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martin luther king did not stop us. i'm here to tell you that nothing that the congress of the united states of america and the policeman and the national guard they can do here in washington that can stop us. we have made up our minds that we are not can let anybody turn us around. [applause] come to washington for our freedom. we have come to washington for just this. -- for justice. we have come to washington for jobs. >> it looks like a nice place. water, light and everything like that. >> i just feel sorry for the young people. the sick youngsters. i did not know much about what was going on, but i know that something is wrong. otherwise, they would not be here. >> it is one way of drawing attention to what has been happening for 100 years and longer. >> i do not think that they should use other people's money. i think they're going about it wrong. >> their up your get something for nothing. >> there is nobody got aced derek drive -- a stake driving them -- a stick driving them. why do not they get -- white don't t
martin luther king did not stop us. i'm here to tell you that nothing that the congress of the united states of america and the policeman and the national guard they can do here in washington that can stop us. we have made up our minds that we are not can let anybody turn us around. [applause] come to washington for our freedom. we have come to washington for just this. -- for justice. we have come to washington for jobs. >> it looks like a nice place. water, light and everything like...
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martin luther king jr. was killed, he's the one that calmed the crowd and called us to new hope.was tough. it was tough to go on. >> as both allies and rivals joined together at st. patrick's cathedral for the funeral, the last surviving kennedy brother gave the eulogy. >> i want to express to those who mourn today in this cathedral, around the world. we loved him as a brother, as a father, as a son. >> i knew my dad. when i watch that video of him speaking at my uncle bobby's funeral, his voice cracking. >> those of us who loved him and take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us, what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. >> there's a moment there where he wants to weep and america wants to weep. and yet you're not allowed to. >> as he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him, some men see things as they are and say why, i dream things tha nev wer and say why not. >> america los hope, america lost its innocence again. america lost youth. america lost a passionate leader who cared deepl
martin luther king jr. was killed, he's the one that calmed the crowd and called us to new hope.was tough. it was tough to go on. >> as both allies and rivals joined together at st. patrick's cathedral for the funeral, the last surviving kennedy brother gave the eulogy. >> i want to express to those who mourn today in this cathedral, around the world. we loved him as a brother, as a father, as a son. >> i knew my dad. when i watch that video of him speaking at my uncle bobby's...
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i question how many people really know the history of martin luther king and even in a tweet king center print out. that the we need to get out the martin luther king light. also as a gen xer, the thing i think our generation did was take what was past and build on it or flip the script. i would like to imagine, at this time, if martin luther king did not live the whole continuum, if he came here now, how he would rework his dream, how he would flip the script? any insight you can offer about things we can study about what his perspective was then, or people who may be lifted, or historians who have perspective, and at even a reality that we can get rid of the power? -- the poor? poorse jesus said, "the you will have with you always." >> because it is a reality -- there was a time you thought you could not get rid of slavery. there was a time you never thought segregation would end. those were bigger than the ones we face today. us is, what history tells each generation needs us to take that history, reframe it, draw it as a meansse to challenge. no one is saying looking back at the past
i question how many people really know the history of martin luther king and even in a tweet king center print out. that the we need to get out the martin luther king light. also as a gen xer, the thing i think our generation did was take what was past and build on it or flip the script. i would like to imagine, at this time, if martin luther king did not live the whole continuum, if he came here now, how he would rework his dream, how he would flip the script? any insight you can offer about...
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we need to get out for martin luther king light. the thing i think our generation did was take what was passed and build on it, or flip the script. i would like to imagine, at this time, if martin luther king came here now, how he would rework his dream, how he would flip the script? any insight you can offer about things we can study about what his perspective was then, or people who may be lifted, or who historians who have perspective, ways we can take that either rework it for the next 50, 1 hundred years, or to flip the script to move us forward. is it even a reality that we can rid of the poor? jesus said the poor you will have with you always. >> because it is a reality, doesn't mean we can't change it. one of the things that history teaches us is there was a time when no one believed you would get rid of slavery. there was a time you never believed that segregation would end. those were realities that were bigger than we may think we are facing today. for me, what history tells us, is that each generation needs to take that h
we need to get out for martin luther king light. the thing i think our generation did was take what was passed and build on it, or flip the script. i would like to imagine, at this time, if martin luther king came here now, how he would rework his dream, how he would flip the script? any insight you can offer about things we can study about what his perspective was then, or people who may be lifted, or who historians who have perspective, ways we can take that either rework it for the next 50,...
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the story in the book "to the promised land: martin luther king and the fight for economic justice" is not the we need another biography of king because we don't. we have a lot of great biographies of king, really good biographies of king. i didn't think i could improve on anything anybody has done in that regard. what i wanted to do was bring a larger audience to the whole king. most people think of king as, i don't know about you but young kids in particular think of him as a, quote, civil rights leader and this is how the media portrayed him and among scholars that is an outmoded view. people don't think of king that way in the scholarly world. they look at the whole king. unfortunately most of the public doesn't get that, doesn't know it. so the book is an attempt to bridge the gap and it is short in a very reader friendly way that sort of encapsulates a lot of things about king. it is about our memory. how do we remember king? that was the issue this week in memphis, trying to create a different way of remembering king. one of the great things, yesterday we had 3000 people marchin
the story in the book "to the promised land: martin luther king and the fight for economic justice" is not the we need another biography of king because we don't. we have a lot of great biographies of king, really good biographies of king. i didn't think i could improve on anything anybody has done in that regard. what i wanted to do was bring a larger audience to the whole king. most people think of king as, i don't know about you but young kids in particular think of him as a,...
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it is were martin luther king jr.his first meeting within 10 it for president jack kennedy, john f kennedy. so it was there that they met. they, being bobby kennedy and james baldwin, met the morning before when baldwin flew out to hickory hill after landing and d.c. and then got driven out to hickory hill by mr. kennedy's chauffeur to meet with them in the suburbs of d.c. at his home because he was attorney general. they had a pleasant enough meeting step very interested in each other. they expressed interest in each other. the plane for baldwin had been late, so kennedy said as they went off to the city, to go to another meeting, he said, look, i'm going to be in new york. why do you bring some of those people we talked about that black people listen to? he did not want to talk to king or whitney young or any of the established leaders. he wanted to speak to people that had the ears of the people, so to speak. is that he said, look, i've got someepl they listen to, harry belafonte, lena horne, lorraine hansberry. th
it is were martin luther king jr.his first meeting within 10 it for president jack kennedy, john f kennedy. so it was there that they met. they, being bobby kennedy and james baldwin, met the morning before when baldwin flew out to hickory hill after landing and d.c. and then got driven out to hickory hill by mr. kennedy's chauffeur to meet with them in the suburbs of d.c. at his home because he was attorney general. they had a pleasant enough meeting step very interested in each other. they...
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there is a version of martin luther king and referred to as refrigerator magnet martin it was reducedto uplifting quotes what he really got from this book was humanizing at and taking the lacquer off of martin luther king and showing him the faults and all. there was a smoker. he didn't sleep well. he played practical drugs. -- practical jokes. it was kind of bringing him back to us and set upon him a point him down off the mountaintop. some people would like to think that king was a saint and he was perfect in every way and idealized human beings but he was a human being. he have some have some of the frailties of a human being and i wanted to paint him as he was. i think it actually enhances it shows him as a farmer impressive person that he did had frailties like anyone. and talked about the fact that he have affairs and people were scandalized less that he have affairs then he was actually talking about them. you have that in your book as well. i interviewed a mistress georgia davis he was a woman of standing in the civil rights movement herself she comes to memphis on the night o
there is a version of martin luther king and referred to as refrigerator magnet martin it was reducedto uplifting quotes what he really got from this book was humanizing at and taking the lacquer off of martin luther king and showing him the faults and all. there was a smoker. he didn't sleep well. he played practical drugs. -- practical jokes. it was kind of bringing him back to us and set upon him a point him down off the mountaintop. some people would like to think that king was a saint and...
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his relationship to martin luther king junior, for instance, is quite interesting because after that death that i gin with, after the funeral i begin with the we remember that bobby kennedy spoke in indianapolis bravely about the death of king. he announced to those black people in the hood what had gone on against the advice of his advisers who said it is going to be tough. at are going to the ghetto this particular moment at the death of their foremost figure, it could be really treacherous for you and very careless. he went on anyhow. gril u speech - -- he gave a brilliant speech.
his relationship to martin luther king junior, for instance, is quite interesting because after that death that i gin with, after the funeral i begin with the we remember that bobby kennedy spoke in indianapolis bravely about the death of king. he announced to those black people in the hood what had gone on against the advice of his advisers who said it is going to be tough. at are going to the ghetto this particular moment at the death of their foremost figure, it could be really treacherous...
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>> i'm here because 50 years ago, martin luther king was assassinated. is the 50th anniversary. how did he die? working for poor people. desk heaven an has has declared in order to show that martin luther king did not shed his blood in vain, heaven has decreed that germanic divine enhancement of movement is going to take place. in order to say the king and bobby kennedy, oh, although you shed your blood, the movement is not kill. it was not extinguish. amy: your thoughts at the border, what is happening with the separation of children? you were the head of riverside church. children have 700 been separated from their parents. apparently, rn varies institutions in new york. the governor or mayor have not found out where they are. >> let's put it in the store context. the separation of children, for me to make goes back all the way which slavery process by a natural way to make slaves and to dehumanize people was to break their family bond. all i can think of, here it goes again. whether or not it is separating by incarceration were trumped up charges were
>> i'm here because 50 years ago, martin luther king was assassinated. is the 50th anniversary. how did he die? working for poor people. desk heaven an has has declared in order to show that martin luther king did not shed his blood in vain, heaven has decreed that germanic divine enhancement of movement is going to take place. in order to say the king and bobby kennedy, oh, although you shed your blood, the movement is not kill. it was not extinguish. amy: your thoughts at the border,...
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martin luther king before his assassination in april 1968. the events were documented by producer edward scheer and a rarely seen 20 minutes film titled "on the case." anne, thank you for being with us. it chronicles the division between black and white america. how did your husband put it together and what do you think the audience will take away after watching? >> and putting it together, he and his colleague spent eight weeks and 27 hours of tape recording andce filming. they went to mississippi. they filmed the buses. and all the way through the resurrection city. use of the audiotape rather than an interview on camera, my husband felt would make people more willing to express what they really felt because they wouldn't be tied to a voice and a face and an individual. it would be anonymous. we've got spectators out here. we've got some so-called white liberals out here. we've got the bloggers was he out here, but it ain't nothing man. what these people do when they go back to the homes, then we find whoever is outside. these are like to s
martin luther king before his assassination in april 1968. the events were documented by producer edward scheer and a rarely seen 20 minutes film titled "on the case." anne, thank you for being with us. it chronicles the division between black and white america. how did your husband put it together and what do you think the audience will take away after watching? >> and putting it together, he and his colleague spent eight weeks and 27 hours of tape recording andce filming. they...
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our reports surface that kennedy as attorney general had approved wiretaps on dr martin luther king and others. bobby's reputation as a civil rights advocate lay in tatters but he survived his sent back and now focused his efforts on ending the conflict in vietnam. johnson's policies on the war had become increasingly unpopular more and more american supported kennedy's views. on march the sixteenth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight robert f. kennedy announced that he would run for president. i do not think it did my candidate. or the president of the united states. i do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man. but the whole new policy. that this country is on for. because i have such strong feeling. about what must be done. and i feel that i'm. to do all that i can. see you call it. policies. and in our city. all of these polls that gap. between black and white. because that is now on mistaken belief. that we can change these disasters to bite the policy. only by changing the man we're now making. was bush surely an impossible dream i candidate did not have the backing
our reports surface that kennedy as attorney general had approved wiretaps on dr martin luther king and others. bobby's reputation as a civil rights advocate lay in tatters but he survived his sent back and now focused his efforts on ending the conflict in vietnam. johnson's policies on the war had become increasingly unpopular more and more american supported kennedy's views. on march the sixteenth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight robert f. kennedy announced that he would run for...
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i have some very sad news for all of you and people who love peace all over the world martin luther king was shot and with killed tonight america. for those of you who are. black. and are tempted to feel with be filled with hatred and distrust. of the injustice of such an act. against all white people. i would only say that i can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. i had a member of my family killed. but he was killed by a white man. bobby kennedy now apparent to many americans and not just blacks as their only hug he was an idol to some. dave in a messiah to others. in primary elections that spring kennedy won four states and last fall he was still in a strong position heading into the convention. on the night of dr king's death bobby had confided to an aide that could have been made. he told others that some of it he felt doomed somewhere somehow an assassin would find him. but bobby kennedy did not show fear and did not ask for extra protection. he was campaigning as his own man not as his successor to his slain brother and he was running for the white house said that
i have some very sad news for all of you and people who love peace all over the world martin luther king was shot and with killed tonight america. for those of you who are. black. and are tempted to feel with be filled with hatred and distrust. of the injustice of such an act. against all white people. i would only say that i can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. i had a member of my family killed. but he was killed by a white man. bobby kennedy now apparent to many americans...
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by the death of martin luther king could not stop us. here to tell you that certainly nothing that the congress of the united states of america, and the policemen, and the national guard or any other can stop usre here because we are here in washington and i cannot stop us. we have made up our minds that we are not can let anybody turn us around. [applause] >> we have come to washington for our freedom. >> yeah. >> we have come to washington for for justice. we have come to washington for jobs. >> yeah. >> to tell you the truth it , looks like a nice place. [laughter] we have everything here water, , light and everything like that. so it is all right. >> i just feel sorry for the young people. the sick youngsters. but i don't know much about really what is going on, but i know that something is wrong. somewhere. and otherwise, they would not be here. >> it is one way of drawing attention, you know to what has , been happening for 100 years and more longer than that. >> i do not think that they should use other people's money and come her
by the death of martin luther king could not stop us. here to tell you that certainly nothing that the congress of the united states of america, and the policemen, and the national guard or any other can stop usre here because we are here in washington and i cannot stop us. we have made up our minds that we are not can let anybody turn us around. [applause] >> we have come to washington for our freedom. >> yeah. >> we have come to washington for for justice. we have come to...
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about martin luther king, just walked from washingtontation in to the lincoln memorial. as i approached the lincoln saw in my mind's eye dream speech. martin luther king would never violence for violence. he believes that the higher moral purpose would win. he wrote no law of man that square with him. him down.d facteich recognized the that after the holocaust he to't go back to pastor anybody in the country if i of a return in the middle nazi occupation. on a tree days before the end of the war. captors to say there was more to life than just success no means to sustain himself. he thought to himself, if they use galileo against me, they will never use me against someone else. and he told them to go to hell. natan sharansky was ultimately released, and he was on a bridge and the soviet authorities told sharansky, i want you to walk straight. as he walked across the bridge, he could not move in a more crooked line than what he did, his final message of defiance to those who held him captive. but it is not always the big shots. so you work at wells fargo. they tell you to
about martin luther king, just walked from washingtontation in to the lincoln memorial. as i approached the lincoln saw in my mind's eye dream speech. martin luther king would never violence for violence. he believes that the higher moral purpose would win. he wrote no law of man that square with him. him down.d facteich recognized the that after the holocaust he to't go back to pastor anybody in the country if i of a return in the middle nazi occupation. on a tree days before the end of the...
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the night martin luther king jr. died. and i was so moved by an article that you wrote, in the "daily beast." i want to read from your incredible column titled "what i saw on rfk's funeral train 50 years ago today." you write, they had all hoped to find a piece of the american dream. and now the train with the dead senator's casket clearly visible in the last slow rolling car seemed like one more fragment of the shattered hopes of that dream. a dream slowly being dismantled, crushed even, by the horrible reality of another assassination. and a daily death toll arriving from halfway around the world on the very day robert kennedy was pronounced dead in los angeles june 6th, 1968. on that day, 106 american soldiers and marines were killed in vietnam. it was time in america's life that seems now like distant sky writing, erased by the winds of past decades. those who have seemed to suffer the most often sacrificed the most. those who seemed to serve and protect the country in great numbers often find that they are among the f
the night martin luther king jr. died. and i was so moved by an article that you wrote, in the "daily beast." i want to read from your incredible column titled "what i saw on rfk's funeral train 50 years ago today." you write, they had all hoped to find a piece of the american dream. and now the train with the dead senator's casket clearly visible in the last slow rolling car seemed like one more fragment of the shattered hopes of that dream. a dream slowly being dismantled,...
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the third factor was martin luther king's four people poor people campaign, which was the sign that not only his opposition to the war which had built up over the years, his famous speech at riverside church a year before, but now king was saying the evils within american injustice and inequality, so the poor people's campaign was just getting started when he was killed. i was curious if any of those issues came within your purview of analyze what was happening to -- of analyzing what was happening to not only philadelphia, but throughout the country, in terms of loss of confidence in terms of the quality of life in the united states affected by the war? >> the only thing i would say about my lai, which comes later, and i don't know the legal technicalities that i recall, richard nixon pardoned or commuted the sentence of lieutenant kelly, which is a pretty good indication that he thought that would be the popular move. here is somebody responsible and convicted of a war crime, but nixon still thought it advantageous in some way, which suggested he had this understanding of where the so
the third factor was martin luther king's four people poor people campaign, which was the sign that not only his opposition to the war which had built up over the years, his famous speech at riverside church a year before, but now king was saying the evils within american injustice and inequality, so the poor people's campaign was just getting started when he was killed. i was curious if any of those issues came within your purview of analyze what was happening to -- of analyzing what was...
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another incident that occurred was when martin luther king was assassinated. there were some minorities, blacks in particular, who wanted to go out and do things and say things that wasn't right. again, i stood up against them and said this isn't the right thing to do. that is when all of this, chow lines, holding up, you know what i am talking about. that occurred. there were some big racial problems in vietnam, because of martin luther king's assassination in 1968. but i was strong enough to where it didn't affect me. >> now, you were repairing, fixing aircraft. >> yes sir. >> did you, did you have any flight duties? did you do a turn as a door gunner or anything like that? >> i was never a crew chief or a door gunner, however i did go out on recovery missions when aircraft were shot down and went down because of maintenance problems. i was part of a maintenance team and we did go out and recover aircraft. >> so you saw a little more of the country. >> yes sir. more than i wanted to see. >> did you form friendships with men from different racial and social b
another incident that occurred was when martin luther king was assassinated. there were some minorities, blacks in particular, who wanted to go out and do things and say things that wasn't right. again, i stood up against them and said this isn't the right thing to do. that is when all of this, chow lines, holding up, you know what i am talking about. that occurred. there were some big racial problems in vietnam, because of martin luther king's assassination in 1968. but i was strong enough to...
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later in his life, as i'm sure you all know, martin luther king joins the poor people's campaign. he was in memphis where he was assassinated to march with the striking sanitation workers there, as we have been reminded by the 50th anniversary just last month. continuing the tradition today of ashley would include job production and wage increases for low-wage workers who are still disproportionately people of color and raising the minimum wage for the same reason. statesar, the united into controversy over monuments of the southern rebellion leaders. ashley hated those that were erected before his death in 1893. in his draft memoir, he spoke viciously about them, claiming they were whitewashing slavery, claiming those monuments should also have a statue of a slave in chains or a slave running away from slave catchers to accompany it. ashley, no monument to although the toledo federal courthouse is now named for him and his grandson who represented toledo in congress. ashley is largely overlooked by constitutional scholars. historians of historians of this era know who actually is
later in his life, as i'm sure you all know, martin luther king joins the poor people's campaign. he was in memphis where he was assassinated to march with the striking sanitation workers there, as we have been reminded by the 50th anniversary just last month. continuing the tradition today of ashley would include job production and wage increases for low-wage workers who are still disproportionately people of color and raising the minimum wage for the same reason. statesar, the united into...
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david: when martin luther king made his famous speech.ert: i think the impact of her bringing me and my brother for the summer was for us to understand our community stood for something, our community was striving for something, and it was important we were part of it. that is part of the lifelong part of my soul, which is i have to give back and help my community move forward in this wonderful country called america. david: now as we have this discussion now, we are in the african american history and culture museum, of which you are one of the largest donors. this is very near to where martin luther king jr. gave his speech. your mother was living in denver at the time you were brought here? robert: correct, but she grew up in washington. david: your grandparents, what did they do? robert: my grandfather was the postmaster general for three post offices here in the d.c. area. before that, when he was in high school, he actually worked in the senate building. he worked in the senate lounge and served coffee, tea, and took hats and coats
david: when martin luther king made his famous speech.ert: i think the impact of her bringing me and my brother for the summer was for us to understand our community stood for something, our community was striving for something, and it was important we were part of it. that is part of the lifelong part of my soul, which is i have to give back and help my community move forward in this wonderful country called america. david: now as we have this discussion now, we are in the african american...
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martin luther king was my childhood hero. i tried participate in his parade every year. this year i was wearing a john lennon shirt. you may think i am a dreamer. that's my dream. i faced bigotry. my family fasd bigotry. at the end of the year, look at throws qualities. that's what makes america the very best. >> i wanted to say i think that race and gender matter. we are doing better to elect people of diverse back grounds than electing we will. only one out of eight constitutional officers is a woman. we electricity eight every four years and we've only had a total of nine in california. when you elect more women, more are invested in education. families, seniors and health care. that's where we ought to be focusing right now. >> mr. cox, i'm quoting here, california has been branded as an anti-trump state but many around the country think california is disconnected from their lives. what responsibilities and obligations, if any, do you think california has to the nation and how do you plan on meeting them? >> well, i want to work the trump administration. i support wh
martin luther king was my childhood hero. i tried participate in his parade every year. this year i was wearing a john lennon shirt. you may think i am a dreamer. that's my dream. i faced bigotry. my family fasd bigotry. at the end of the year, look at throws qualities. that's what makes america the very best. >> i wanted to say i think that race and gender matter. we are doing better to elect people of diverse back grounds than electing we will. only one out of eight constitutional...
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that most notably included martin luther king and the black civil rights movement, it included white socialists, puerto rican nationals, and a group of white student activists in the 1960's. >> who was behind it? individuals or government agencies? >> it had approval from the top of the fbi, which was j edgar hoover, who was the longtime director of the fbi or almost 50 years -- fbi for almost 50 years, and was extremely focused on identifying communist links, or communist individuals who were involved in social justice movements and political movements in the united states. >> any concern from president truman, president eisenhower, president johnson, that individual rights were being discriminated against or taken away? >> not part of the conversation 1960's.ter in the j edgar hoover himself saw ways he wanted to curtail the spying and surveillance activity over concerns like that. >> southern student organizing committee. what was that? mr. michel: the acronym was soc, a group that was white college students in the south in the 1960's. when most people think of what young people i
that most notably included martin luther king and the black civil rights movement, it included white socialists, puerto rican nationals, and a group of white student activists in the 1960's. >> who was behind it? individuals or government agencies? >> it had approval from the top of the fbi, which was j edgar hoover, who was the longtime director of the fbi or almost 50 years -- fbi for almost 50 years, and was extremely focused on identifying communist links, or communist...
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. >> martin luther king was shot and killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. >> finally, a few minutesfter midnight, june 5, 1968, america faced the murder of yet another kennedy. >> thank you >> pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. five shots. >> journalist pete hamil helped subdue the assassin. says the wound that america suffered that night has yet to heal. >> a story of what might have been. not about what happened. but what we lost when it ed >> what did we lose? >> hope. >> i want the democratic party and the united states of america to stand for hope. instead of despair. >> my father gave people hope. he lifted them up. >> kathleen kennedy townsend the oldest of robert and ethel kennedy's 11 children. she says people found that hope in the questions her father was asking. >> we have this great wealth, $800 billion ape year. we have all this military power. yet how do we to it? what do we do with it? >> how do we make moral choices? how do we help our fellow human being. most meaningful thing you can do. >> it was their faith in the answers he offered. that helped him build a coalition that
. >> martin luther king was shot and killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. >> finally, a few minutesfter midnight, june 5, 1968, america faced the murder of yet another kennedy. >> thank you >> pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. five shots. >> journalist pete hamil helped subdue the assassin. says the wound that america suffered that night has yet to heal. >> a story of what might have been. not about what happened. but what we lost when it ed >> what did we...
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the campaign is modeled on a similar movement that began fifty years ago by reverend martin luther king jr before his assassination in april one thousand nine hundred sixty eight that summer tens of thousands marched and set up a sprawling camp on the national mall called resurrection city civil rights leader jesse jackson was there the king's we must choose a healing at home and not killing abroad protester said the forced separation of migrant families by the trump administration shows the country's leadership is morally blind not just jump it's been like this since he founded this country. the immigration issue is particularly acute now campaign organizers say they are only beginning their fight they plan a major drive to get more people and their supporters to the polls in the november elections to vote for a profound change in u.s. society rob reynolds al-jazeera washington. spain's coast guard has rescued nearly six hundred migrants trying to make the journey across the mediterranean from north africa spain's maritime rescue service says it picked them up from sixteen boats in the
the campaign is modeled on a similar movement that began fifty years ago by reverend martin luther king jr before his assassination in april one thousand nine hundred sixty eight that summer tens of thousands marched and set up a sprawling camp on the national mall called resurrection city civil rights leader jesse jackson was there the king's we must choose a healing at home and not killing abroad protester said the forced separation of migrant families by the trump administration shows the...
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mentioned the fiftieth anniversary of the original poor people's campaign that was begun by martin luther king and which continued after dr king was assassinated and i can actually remember as a as a young boy being brought by my father down here to the mall to a place called resurrection city where thousands of people camped out for six weeks that hot muggy summer of one nine hundred sixty eight and it's another hot muggy typical washington day today with intermittent rain but nevertheless we got several thousand people out here and one of them i'd like to introduce right now mary and a lot from new jersey mary and come in stand right there perfect great so what brings you here to washington d.c. from your home in oceanside new jersey thanks for inviting me for a few words i'm here from ocean county new jersey and after years and years and years of fresh about the assistance rolled back from the public from funds rolled back from the public and shifted over to corporations and there are fewer. and there are fewer. fewer services available to people and we're paying out of our skins people are
mentioned the fiftieth anniversary of the original poor people's campaign that was begun by martin luther king and which continued after dr king was assassinated and i can actually remember as a as a young boy being brought by my father down here to the mall to a place called resurrection city where thousands of people camped out for six weeks that hot muggy summer of one nine hundred sixty eight and it's another hot muggy typical washington day today with intermittent rain but nevertheless we...
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martin luther king, jr. launched the first poor people's campaign.anizers say the poor peoples campaign is the most expansive wave of nonviolent direct action in the u.s. this century. well, democracy now! was in the streets of washington, d.c., with the new poor people's campaign on monday as over 100 people were arrested in d.c. alone. this is union organizer joshua -- this is reverend william barber's "for he was arrested. >> we have to ship the narrative. people have to put their lives in the bodies on the line. yet preachers and poor people and infected people who are in these lines. and we are willing now to engage in an active moral civil disobedience to drive home what is going on. we believe in justice is happening in the halls of congress and in the halls of state capitals around this country. amy: just after he said this, reverend barber was taken into custody, was arrested along with 100 other people just after they were detained across the street of the supreme court, is cochair of the poor people's campaign, , withnd liz theoharis eight
martin luther king, jr. launched the first poor people's campaign.anizers say the poor peoples campaign is the most expansive wave of nonviolent direct action in the u.s. this century. well, democracy now! was in the streets of washington, d.c., with the new poor people's campaign on monday as over 100 people were arrested in d.c. alone. this is union organizer joshua -- this is reverend william barber's "for he was arrested. >> we have to ship the narrative. people have to put their...