Martin Luther King, Jr., on 'Face the Nation'

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), on "Face the Nation," CBS, April 16, 1967.




A furor erupted a week and a half earlier when, on April 4, Dr. King publicly broke with the U. S. government's undeclared war in Southeast Asia in a speech titled "Beyond Vietnam" at New York's historic Riverside Church.

Mostly thru surrogates (some of whom were secretly supplied with derogatory material by J. Edgar Hoover's famously anti-black Federal Bureau of Investigation), President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration's attacked Dr. King for attempting to "fuse" the civil-rights and peace or antiwar movements.




Denying the charge, Dr. King, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, nevertheless drew a direction connexion between the reduction in funding for Johnson's ambitious social programs and the escalating, costly, but ill-fated war in Vietnam.

In this interview,. King declares: "The Great Society, with its very noble programs, in a sense has been shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam."

Dr. King was assassinated precisely one year after his Riverside Church speech.

(CBS News video courtesy eFootage.com.)

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[Doleafol]

Do you have the entire Face the Nation segment with Dr. King? I would love to see more.

[E3ST]

Nice Find!

[SpikeD1]

Awesome.