martin luther king jr. n june 22nd 1952 he truly lived out our motto. first of all, service of all, we shall transcend all. for this 50th commemoration of his life and his death, we have assembled from across this nation in this courtyard and have over 2,000 others who would journey to memphis for the 87th southern region convention. in spirit they too stand in this place and give honor to a great man. a great friend. and a great brother. each april 4th the brothers of alpha phi alpha come to the lorraine motel where dr. king was slain, where his spirit transitioned back to the father. on behalf of the fraternity, brothers nicholas collins, southern regional vice president and brother keedran pryor from the college of the beta fooi chapter do place a wreath and we shall render a hymn and remembrance of our brother, my brother, mankind's brother. brother reverend dr. martin luther king jr. we remember. [ applause ] >> i am brother kelsey rushing, southern region vice president of the alpha phi alpha 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

because really, their record on civil rights was frustrating to civil rights leaders, martin luther king, jr., in particular. >> host: if rfk -- was an ambassador for jfk, could you say rusten was ambassador for martin luther king, jr. >> >> david: rusten had to be behind the scenes so i don't think he could be. biered rusten was a -- he had to be hidden. he was incredibly effective but he was incredibly effective only from the shadows. hoover was on to him. he was a point of vulnerability for the civil rights movement, and they really had to squirrel him away. so i think that robert kennedy was working behind the scenes with king and other people but robert kennedy never had to be afraid of appearing publicly. robert kennedy was extremely visible. he just didn't want to be visible with martin luther king which is the reason why i say there is not a single good picture of the two of them together. that's no accident. i think that continued throughout even after john kennedy's assassination. i think that the speech that robert kennedy gave in indianapolis, eulogizing king, the famous spee

we cannot tell the entire story of martin luther king, but we have a video in the corner of the room. that fills in an awful lot of what we cannot actually show on the wall. the next image describes martin -- beside martin luther king is the time magazine cover image of robert f kennedy who announced his candidacy for the democratic party. he was antiwar. he was for a lot of things that lyndon johnson was not. the two men never got along. once kennedy entered the race, johnson knew that was it and stepped aside. the image we see here as the time cover was what appeared right after kennedy's assassination in los angeles. it is a very somber image of it is a very somber image of kennedy. he was the peace candidate and was doing very well. he just won the california primary. the thing i remember about that is the funeral train, the train that left new york city to come to washington dc. he was part that she was buried in arlington cemetery. there were crowds of people who turned out throughout that 250 mile journey from new york city. the image that you see high above in the center is of

of course april 4th, martin luther king jr. was assassinated. the days after martin luther king jr.'s assassination, rioting in chicago, baltimore, washington, d.c., and other cities. on april 11th, president johnson signs the fair housing act. on june 4th, 5th, and 6th, robert kennedy wins the california primary. he's shot after his victory rally. he died the next day, on the 6th. october 16th, that iconic image of olympic athletes tommie smith and john carlos. november 5th, the impact. we'll be talking about that on the movement. we'll talk about all of that in our special series. special phone lines if you want to join the conversation. 202-748-8000. if you're 29 years old and under, for those 30 years old to 60s years old. 202-748-8001. the phone line for those 61 and older, we want to hear from you, your memories of that year, 202-748-8002. kathleen cleaver, we introduced you as well as your position at emory as the former communications secretary for the black panther party. how did you get involved in the black panther party? >> i was in an organization called student nonviole

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 junior steps out. one of the first to approach him is dr. jesse jackson. he asks dr. king what time is dinner. he says we are going to be there shortly. dr. king responds and says reverend jackson, where is your tie. he says dock, the preremembering sit for dinner is an appetite and i have that. he is introduced to a musician and the musician asks him what would you like to be played at dinner. he is told to go grab a jacket. before he can respond, a shot rings out at 6:01 p.m. and dr. king lies wounded on the balcony. immediately, the memphis police are running in this way. many of his associates including reverend young, jesse jackson are pointing saying go that way. the shot came from this area over here where we see the infamous photograph taken. he's taken from the balcony and to st. joseph's hospitals and is pronounced dead at 7:00 pm. ♪ ♪ gracious lord ♪ take my hand ♪ lead me on ♪ let me stand ♪ take my hand ♪ precious lord ♪ and lead me home ♪ >> the city of memphis was very much like the rest of the country in how it dealt with the aftermath of do

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

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 dc. kennedy is barreling 10 in arlington cemetery, near his brother john. and there were just crowds, turned out along the 250 mile journey, they just lined the railroad tracks. the image you see high above in the center is of robert kennedy with says our jo

when martin luther king and stokely carmichael are on the march, they have a good, friendly relationshipt also ideological differences. the civil rights movement needs king and carmichael, but they have to deal with the fabric of the march and what it would look like. part of the deal that king gets carmichael and others to agree to is that while people will chantblack power, he -- black power, he's also urging them to not use it in public speeches and tried to defuse some of the controversy that is rising. that is one element of the tension, but the other is external. march,last week of the the strategy of white mississippi officials is starting to change. early on, they bent over backwards to try to protect the marchers, ensure that when they tried to register to vote that it was done so without too much resistance from local whites, because they did not want anymore incidents. their strategy was let them pass through an week will go back to the way things were. by the third week, they realize the federal government does not won anything to do with the meredith march. unlike selma, whi

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 luth

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 fini

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

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

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

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

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

we came up with tweed, margaret thatcher, reformers, martin luther and the protestant reformation. 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 cle

martin luther king jr. steps outside on the balcony and members of the southern christian leadership conference are statedg -- here. reverend jesse jackson approaches him. and he asks dr. king what time is dinner. he says we will be there shortly, but i dr. king himself responds and said, reverend jackson, where is your tie? jesse jackson says, a pre-would visit for dinner is -- a prerequisite for dinner is appetite, and i have that. the two men left. he is introduced to a musician named ben branch. he asks dr. king what song he wants played at dinner and a dr. king responds with "precious lord, take my hand." and i want you to play a real pretty. his chauffeur calls upon the balcony and says, doc, you should go and grab a jacket. before martin junior can respond to mr. jones, a shot rings out at 6:01 p.m. and dr. king falls wounded, and he is lying here on the balcony. [gunshot] immediately, when the shot rings out, the memphis police are running into this way and many of his associates, including reverend

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.

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

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

can you say a few words about her engagement with martin luther king and the fight for human dignity and human rights? blanche: she really encouraged the civil rights movement. 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

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. ♪

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

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

terms of political mobilization because the first thing you did in politics was go lobby for martin luther kingay to become a national federal holiday. >> i kept it in my heart that dr. king called us to serve. dr. king called us to build bridges, to find a way to the promised land in politics and find a way to making sure that every child had the dream. and as a young girl growing up in the segregated south, i too wanted to serve, and i wanted to be involved in a movement. my mother, jean, would say, "you're too young, donna," but i didn't feel young. i felt like i could do it. i didn't feel like i was a little girl. i felt like i wanted to be that woman, and i'll never forget when i wrote in my diary, by the time i turned 40, i want to be a campaign manager, and i became a campaign manager at 39, so i made it. >> you just beat it. your first presidential campaign and presidential effort that you worked on was for the reverend jesse jackson in 1984. >> yes. >> and i think as we look back on it, it's easy to miss that an entire generation of african-american political operatives came into the f

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

. >> 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

martin luther king jr. dow of a nearby boarding house. >> martin luther king jr. was killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. >> witnesses say the impact knocked him off his feet and he fell back here against this serving tray. >> reporter: president johnson appealed for calm. >> i ask every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck dr. king who lived by non-violence. >> reporter: but there was violence. riiots in more than 100 american cities. in memphis, four days after king's death the peaceful march he promised took place, led by his widow. coretta scott king had long stood by her husband's side. now, she walked in his place. king's body was brought home to atlanta to his family's ebenezer baptist church. among the mourners, richard nixon, soon to be elected president on a platform of law and order, jacqueline kennedy, widowed herself less than five years earlier and senator robert kennedy, who would also be killed less than two months later. ♪ we have overcome >> reporter: dr. king died hoping a

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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 lute every king jr. has been shot and killed. >> good evening. dr. martin luther king, the apostle of nonviolence in the civil rights movement, has been shot to death in memphis, tennessee. police have issued an all-points bulletin for a well-dressed young white man seen running

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

they have found a lot of their homeless students either stay up martin luther king library or sleep inir cars. the seventh street parking garage is right underneath where the san jose state police officer's office is. so they feel that is a safe place for homeless students and they say this is just a start. 4300 sounds like a lot, but they say anything that can help with this problem. >> absolutely. all right. thank you. >>> now, to san francisco, where voters could decide if free tuition at city college continues for the next 10 years. students getting free tuition now are part of a pilot program set to expire next year. the proposed charter amendment being pushed by supervisor jane kim what ensure subsidized tuition at city college for at least another decade. the board of supervisors plans to vote next month on whether to place the measure on the 2019 ballot. at the state capitol there is a push to expand free preschool in california. sacramento assembly man kevin mccarty introduced a bill to make an additional 100,000 children ages three and four eligible for free preschool. the pr