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MARTIN LUTHER KING
AFP-60C 16mm; VTM-60C Beta SP; NET-103 DigiBeta (at 01:58:35:00); Beta SP
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Newsreel
1968
B W 1968 Newsreel excerpts pertaining to Martin Luther King, all from 1968. 00:21:26:00 B W 1968 Martin Luther King speaks into microphones from outdoor podium at a peace rally anti-Vietnam War protest, the "Stop the bombing, and stop the war" speech, sync-sound. 00:21:39:00 B W 1968 Martin Luther King speaks at podium to striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, the "...I've seen the Promised Land" speech - last speech he ever made - sync-sound. 00:21:57:00 B W 1968 Policemen on guard outside of and on balcony of the Memphis motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated, two shots. 00:22:08:00 B W 1968 Inner city ghetto riots in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King: people on street, building on fire, night scenes poor shots phalanx of riot police on Washington, DC street, they fire tear gas. 00:22:23:00 B W 1968 RFK makes speech to racially mixed crowd surrounding him, the "...my brother was killed by a white man..." speech in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King. 00:22:36:00 B W 1968 A mournful Coretta Scott King and the King children stand over closed coffin at funeral service for Martin Luther King. 00:22:42:00 B W 1968 People crowd the street as they walk in funeral march for Martin Luther King (in Memphis?), VS Richard Nixon, Ike Eisenhower and RFK in the procession King's coffin on donkey-cart. 00:23:14:00 B W 1968 Coretta Scott King holds candle as she leads crowd on Washington, DC street in a "candlelight moratorium" march, night scene
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