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Fri Apr 8, 2016, 05:20 AM Apr 2016

Rare 1967 Martin Luther King press conference - MLK discusses Vietnam and running for President



Published on Youtube Mar 5, 2016: Because of his spirited opposition to the Vietnam War under Democratic President Lyndon Johnson, King was strongly considered as a presidential candidate by anti-war liberals.

Identified as Americas' premier civil rights leader by 1967, King stunned and disappointed many of his followers by embracing the anti-Vietnam movement.

"Against the advice of fellow civil rights leaders, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, Martin Luther King began marching against the war," wrote historian Richard Pearlstein. "The two struggles felt to him one, and silence began to feel to him self-betrayal."

In April of that year, King brought a massive anti-war rally in United Nations Plaza in New York to its feet with his signature pulpit oratory.

"Let us take a single instantaneous step to the peace table— stop the bombing!" he thundered. "Let our voices ring across the land to say the American people are not vainglorious conquerors — stop the bombing!"


Unknown to the public or the anti-war movement at large, its leaders were already talking to Dr. King as their candidate for president against Johnson in 1968...Read More at Youtube

1999 Trial - a Memphis Jury decided in an hour that Dr King had not been assassinated by James Earl Ray
http://liesaboutmlk.com/martin-luther-king-assassinated-by-us-govt-king-family-civil-trial-verdict/


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Rare 1967 Martin Luther King press conference - MLK discusses Vietnam and running for President (Original Post) nationalize the fed Apr 2016 OP
What a loss to all humanity! merrily Apr 2016 #1
he pleaded with people to not support Barry Goldwater tomm2thumbs Apr 2016 #2
Huge +1! Enthusiast Apr 2016 #3
+1 n/t RoccoR5955 Apr 2016 #5
WOW! Great Find! Thank for my new all-time favorite Historical video! DianaForRussFeingold Apr 2016 #4

DianaForRussFeingold

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4. WOW! Great Find! Thank for my new all-time favorite Historical video!
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 06:50 AM
Apr 2016
This should have been made public long ago!
I love how he doesn't hold back on his criticism..He was so right!!!

Thank you so much for this video!
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