In early 1967, I opened my files on the Vietnam War to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who ... at Riverside Church in Manhattan, Dr. King declared his formal opposition to the increasing American ...

The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest ... I did not know that within three months, Martin Luther King, Jr. would be assassinated, and two months after that, Senator Robert Kennedy ...

Prior to his assassination in 1968, King had shifted his efforts on the Poor Peoples Campaign to combat economic injustice and opposition to the Vietnam War. In 1986 Martin Luther King Jr.'s ...

Martin Luther King was an American clergyman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. One of the leading figures in the civil rights movement, he has had a defining influence on the recent history of ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were silenced by assassins. Young white students protested the Vietnam War while frustrated black people protested racism and poverty at home.

On the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination ... spiritual death." - Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, 1967This lesser-quoted line from King's most controversial speech ...

Like most people, I accepted the official story about how Dr. Martin Luther King ... understood Dr. King’s true significance. They perceived his active opposition to the war and his organizing ...