LBJ Reacts to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death

In the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, riots broke out in Washington, DC and in many large cities. President Lyndon B. Johnson met with Civil Rights leaders to address that and larger issues; he later spoke of those concerns and Dr. King’s legacy in this excerpt from a film produced by the U.S. Naval Photographic Center.
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[@starter47990]

I gotta say...between JFK, LBJ and MLK...the 60s produced three of the greatest speakers of all time.

[@melemelstl]

And Fred Hampton also

[@julianG1212]

Fred Hampton was a black panther nothing special.

[@wildonstokes1041]

@@julianG1212 how so?

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

you forgot RFK

[@chrissystewart6268]

History is my favorite subject this is my first time seeing LBJ reacting to MLK's death

[@Thebeatles19632]

My mother was 2 years old when this happened and my grandmother I think was pregnant with my aunt; my mothers older sister was 5 years old, my uncle was 3 years old, my grandfather was 29 years old and my grandmother was 27 years old

[@christinalynn8143]

"Ballots not bullets" 'There's something happening here, what it is, ain't exactly clear, there's a man with a gun over there... What's that sound, everybody look what's going down."

[@starter47990]

This is around the time most blacks started voting Democrat

[@christinalynn8143]

RIP Dr. Martin L King.

[@julianG1212]

Honestly Lbj deserves an Oscar for that performance. What a monster.

[@manipulatortrash]

wdym

[@abdulinniss3287]

In the Last 10 seconds of this speech he uses Malcolm X words.

[@yvonnefarrell1029]

Thank you for posting this, traumatic inexcusable vandalism which set back the very people who set those fires, making the rest of society rightly on edge and thinking "well we can't trust them so we will gentrify them out any way we can".
Dr King I can bet would not have thought that was the right reaction to anything, not matter what it was.
Thank you #LBJ your words are still true to this day here on 4 Apr 2023.

[@sadflute8639]

Let's be honest and ask a honest question shall we like how LBJ was the most racist president who took credit for the civil rights act yet the president who was marching with MLK for civil rights act .both died one year about in the same manner hell the barreling in the MLK death didn't even match up