On June 5th 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He died a day … Continue reading June 5 1968 Robert F Kennedy assassinated
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Martin Luther King: ‘I Have A Dream’
Martin Luther King's famous speech, August 28th 1963: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree … Continue reading Martin Luther King: ‘I Have A Dream’
April 4 1968 Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated
On April 4th 1968, just after 6 pm, Martin Luther King Jr was standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was fatally shot. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner. A bullet struck him … Continue reading April 4 1968 Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated
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