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How MLK’s death affected a nation, as told by those who remember it The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy in a march on behalf of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., days before King was shot and killed. (Sam Melhorn / Associated Press) Martin Luther King Jr. had traveled to Memphis, Tenn., in late March 1968 to lead a protest march in support of the city’s striking sanitation workers. Violence had followed, with police descending on the protesters ...

U.s. capitol. we usually have had the word siege in a war like the civil war. perhaps the democratic 1968 convention in chicago. but here watching fellow citizens break in and vandalize our u.s. capitol, rioting in the streets of washington, disregarding public and federal property. its a heinous moment. and usually when you think of being atakds in washington you tend to think the war of 1812 when the british attacked us or 9/11 and the scare that the capitol was going to be a target and you ha...

Now this is a state where youre not seeing a lot. >> of course they tried like the dickens to have their convention there until the uncontrolled pandemic arrived. >> historian and author jon meacham is part of our coverage at 1:42 a.m. eastern time. im sitting here thinking other presidents and other candidates to have gone bed on election notice and said, in effect, wake me when its over. >> this is not uncommon. will that half the time in the modern era from 1960 into this hour, we have gone, ...

>> absolutely. and, you know, the democratic party is not really riven by this great strife. i think sometimes republicans want to make it seem as if this is 1968 where you have, you know, antiwar g. mccarthy people against hubert humphrey and lyndon johnson. really its just been temporarily in the possession or part of the party has been temporarily in the possession in custody of what you might call the woke police. these folks on twitter who are trying to enforce a particular kind of progress...

Stuck it in and they twisted it with relish. >> the real story of the war nixon describes is one that few americans know. its a story of a small group of men who turned impeachment into an act of patriotism. it all begins on june 17th, 1972. >> five men were arrested early saturday while trying to install eavesdropping equipment at the democratic national committee. >> why was someone breaking into the democrats campaign offices? >> i again proudly accept that nomination for president of the uni...

Solemnly i am not a member of any organized political party. im a democrat. i say tonight here that a current leader of that democr democratic party has proved the great will rogers wrong. she did it last week uniting the democrats in the house of representatives to pass the impeachment of donald trump uniting the democrats, thats a phrase to write history around. how many times before have we seen the party of thomas jefferson divided against ipts? i can remember how in 1968, the war forces ref...

Committee staff in the fifth column. i gave them the sword, and they stuck it in and they twisted it with relish. >> the real story of the war nixon describes is one that few americans know. its a story of a small group of men who turned impeachment into an act of patriotism. it all begins on june 17th, 1972. >> five men were arrested early saturday while trying to install eavesdropping equipment at the democratic national committee. >> why was someone breaking into the democrats campaign office...

Today u.s. bomber pilots reported destroying an important railroad bridge, cutting one of two rail lines to china. >> the north vietnamese say american planes bombed a dike on the outskirts of hanoi and other populated areas. >> the hanoi government claimed the targets were not just military installations. hospitals, schools, factories and storehouses were damaged. >> the president pledged in 1968 a plan to end the war. now were moving into the year of his re-election with the war escalating to ...

Question about who we are. nixon and 100 years before, it was the verdict of the civil war. with president nixon, it infolded during vietnam, the cold war. a lot of people thought the country was not going to survive 1968, as youll remember. president clinton, that was the rise of this reflexive partis partisanship, the attack on him, and now we have a demagoguic president who has managed and marshalled and exacerbated the perennial american forces of nativism, racism, extremism, all at a time o...

Going forward. you see that as a reaction to the kinds of changes that congressman lewis embodies. and because of that chaos, because of the challenge to the norms that really started in the mid-60s, i dont think its surprising that weve had these three impeachments. impeachments tend to happen at moments when theres some existential question about who we are. with andrew johnson and 100 years before it was the verdict of the civil wars, with president nixon it unfolded during vietnam, the cold ...