March 22, 2018

The Speech That Kept A City Calm


Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., together in Washington, D.C.on June 22, 1963. - National Parks Service/Courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston

Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., together in Washington, D.C.on June 22, 1963.

National Parks Service/Courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston

We hear from the people who were in the Indianapolis park on April 4, 1968 when Robert F. Kennedy gave his memorable speech informing the crowd that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.

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