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Related: About this forumRare 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
WOW! Great Find! Thank for my new all-time favorite Historical video!
DianaForRussFeingold
Apr 2016
#4
merrily
(45,251 posts)1. What a loss to all humanity!
Thank you for this video.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)2. he pleaded with people to not support Barry Goldwater
which fell upon the deaf ears of many
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)3. Huge +1!
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)5. +1 n/t
DianaForRussFeingold
(2,552 posts)4. WOW! Great Find! Thank for my new all-time favorite Historical video!
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!
I love how he doesn't hold back on his criticism..He was so right!!!
Thank you so much for this video!