Episode 41: UPHEAVAL (Part 2) 1968 Riots to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy

BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback · Aug 25, 2021 · 55m

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This episode opens with the country ablaze after riots break out in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The country struggles with how to cope with the loss of the leader who had preached nonviolent resistance, and who had died such a violent death.

The one city that did not have a riot the night of the assassination was Indianapolis, Indiana. It was there that Senator Robert Kennedy had planned to address a crowd about his campaign for President. Instead he told them of the death of Dr. King and then expressed his own emotion from the death of…