Mon, 18 January 2016
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! Today’s show is a compilation of clips including: Dr. King's first tv interview in 1957 on The Open Mind, episode "The New Negro," hosted by Professor Richard D Hefner. (8:40) April 4, 1967, King delivers his first public antiwar speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” at New York’s Riverside Church. (36:45) April 4, 1968, CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite reports on King's assassination. (1:32:45) Nina Simone performing “Why?” live three days after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1:35:50)
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