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- ♪ You say you want
a revolution ♪

♪ Well, you know
all chanting: Peace now!

- ♪ We all want to
change the world ♪

- We're tired of
full-time jobs

for part-time income.

- ♪ You tell me
that it's evolution ♪

♪ Well, you know

- I know nonviolence
will work.

- ♪ We all want
to change the world ♪

- Is this what you want to do?
Destroy the country?

- I'll destroy a whole
bunch of y'all.

- ♪ But when you talk
about destruction ♪

- The American Embassy
is under siege.

- ♪ Don't you know that
you can count me out ♪

- The country's going to get
a new President next January.

- ♪ Don't you know
it's gonna be all right ♪

- We are planning today
new marches.

- ♪ All right
- Not knowing where they are

is the worst. Just hoping
to stay alive, day to day.

- ♪ All right
- I will not accept

the nomination of my party
for another term

as your President.
- ♪ All right

- No question about it, this
was a bombshell, politically.

- ♪ All right
- I don't plan to drop out.

♪ All right
- I think it'll be

a good thing for the party.

- We want to deal with
our own problems,

within our own country,
and we want peace

in Vietnam.
- ♪ All right

- Those who got out of hand
the other day--

- Chaos has just
broken out downtown.

- Have now been talked with

sufficiently, to guarantee
that nothing will take place

in terms of violence.

I feel that we can still have
a nonviolent demonstration

and that we will have
a nonviolent demonstration

here in Memphis.

The important thing is that
we are not gonna be stopped

by mace or junctions
or any other methods

the city plans to use,
and I think they're making

a grave mistake, because this
would bring much more support

to the movement.

- There had been violence
the last time he marched.

So King comes back to Memphis
to prove that he can lead

a peaceful demonstration.

- We feel that this is
something we have to do.

The nation needs it,
the movement needs it,

above all, the poor people
of our country

need a dramatic movement...
- There is a noticeable change

in the mood in Memphis.

People are concerned,
and King gives his speech

to galvanize his supporters.

- All we say to America,
is be true

to what you said on paper.

- There's an injunction
against marching,

but King is very, very defiant
in that speech.

He's saying,
they're still gonna march.

- Somewhere, I read

of the freedom of assembly.

Somewhere I read,

of the freedom of speech.

Somewhere I read,

that the greatness of America
is the right to protest

for rights.

We've got some
difficult days ahead.

But it really doesn't
matter with me now,

because I've been
to the mountaintop.

And I have seen

the promised land.

I may not get there with you,

but I want you
to know the night

that we as a people will get
to the promised land.

- The next day, we had
breakfast that morning,

all of us did, together.

We were just talking
about the next march.

- Toward the end of the day,
Doctor King is out

on the balcony,
and he sees Jesse down there,

and James Bevel.

All of a sudden,
there was a bolt.

148 North...

- We heard, what sounded
just like a firecracker,

it was loud, real--
a real loud shot.

And, uh, I heard somebody
holler, "Oh Lord."

And then I turned around,
and went back to where he was,

and he had fallen backwards.

- Police put out a bulletin
for a young white man

who witnesses saw
flee immediately

after the shooting.

- Um...

God knows this is
the most tragic thing

that has ever happened in--
in my life.

It was so sudden,
and so powerful.

He couldn't have known
what hit him.

I remember
Reverend Abernathy saying,

"Back up, back up, my dearest
friend has been shot."

I got up and went to the
phone, and called Mrs. King.

Said, "Mrs. King, Dr. King
I think has been shot,

in the shoulder, I think."
I couldn't say what I saw.

- His wife was notified
in Atlanta tonight,

told only that he had been
shot in the shoulder,

to spare her any further
concern and alarm,

as she flew back
to, uh, Memphis.

She--uh, whether she has
arrived there or not,

we have not been advised.

- Go right ahead.

- Do they know
about Martin Luther King?

- That is the night that
Robert Kennedy gave what is

one of the more remarkable
speeches any politician

has ever given.

- Ladies and gentlemen,

I have some very sad news
for all of you,

and, I think, for all
of our fellow citizens,

and people who love peace
all over the world.

And that is that,
Martin Luther King was shot,

and was killed tonight
in Memphis, Tennessee.

Then the city was on fire.

- Washington, Chicago,
Detroit, Boston, New York--

these are just a few
of the cities

in which the Negro anguish
expressed itself

in violent destruction.

- ♪ Take my hand

♪ Oh

♪ I've been

♪ Through the storm

♪ Lord

♪ On through the night

♪ I want you to lead me on

♪ Oh

- For my parents' generation,

King was the dream.

And then he's gone.

They were mourning
the loss of the man,

but also what he represented
for them,

and what they hoped
he would be able to achieve

for their children.

- We've lost something, and we
feel it deeply. We feel it.

- I don't think
Americans should mourn

Martin Luther King. I think
they should mourn themselves.

- The 40th annual
Academy Award Show!

- Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen.

Last Monday
was the 40th anniversary

of the Academy Awards.

- The Academy Awards were,

moved because of Martin
Luther King's assassination.

- This has been
a fateful week,

in the history
of our nation.

We join with
men of goodwill everywhere,

in paying our
profound respects

to the memory of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was his work

that brought about
the increasing awareness

of all men,

that we must unite
in compassion

in order to survive.

- The Best Picture
nominees that year

were genuinely controversial,
and influential movies

like "Bonnie and Clyde,"
"The Graduate,"

"Guess Who's Coming
to Dinner,"

and "In the Heat
of the Night."

Both trying to address racism

and race relations.

- Virgil, that's a funny name
for a nigger boy that comes

from Philadelphia, what do they
call you up there?

- They call me Mr. Tibbs.

- "In The Heat of the Night,"
Sidney Poitier was playing

a black man
who was strong,

who was smart,

who was decisive.

The movie takes place
in the Deep South.

- Let me understand this,

you two came here

to question me?

- We were just trying to
clarify some of the evidence.

Was Mr. Colbert ever
in this greenhouse?

Say, last night
about midnight.

- This is 1968,

you don't have black men
hitting white men in movies

and getting away with it,
and living

to tell the tale, anyway.
And he does.

- There was a time,

when I could have
had you shot.

- Sydney Poitier completely
holds his own, not just

as an actor, but as
the character, Virgil Tibbs.

At its core,
it's a murder-mystery,

but it's also about the way
America's starting to change.

- The winner is:
"In the Heat of the Night,"

Walter Murch.

- In south Vietnam today,
about 20,000 allied troops

are pushing through
on the ground

to Khe Sanh, the outpost
held by 5,000 marines

and now accessible
only by air.

- All of this
is bound for Khe Sanh.

Tons of ammunition
and supplies,

to be parachuted
in to the Marines tomorrow.

- Have you been here
2 1/2 months since

the heavy shelling's
been going on?

- I got here--
I arrived at Khe Sanh

on the 19th of January,
and we got hit the 21st,

so it's been a long
2 1/2 months.

- President Johnson was
absolutely determined

to hold the Marine base
at all cost.

- More than 200 Marines
have died here,

800 seriously wounded.

- There was never the large
clashing of forces

they had expected,
but the Marines were subjected

to just a brutal onslaught.

- In the spring of '68,

you've got the most violent
period of the entire war.

The United States ramps up
the use of military force,

ramps up airstrikes.

About 500 Americans a week

are being killed.
And of course,

the backdrop for all of this
is the draft.

- No one knows
when peace will come.

And so for all the young men
facing the draft,

it is not an easy time
to be a young man in America.

- I feel that every citizen,
every male citizen,

has an obligation
to his country.

- I don't see serving
in the Armed Forces

as meaningful in any way.

all chanting:
Hell no, we won't go!

- The draft just really
mobilized young people.

How many different ways
can you say,

"Hell no, we won't go"?

- ♪ There's a voice

♪ Within me saying

- My name is
Chris Brown, from Jersey.

- Michael Dover, New York.

- Joe Hutchins,
New York City.

- ♪ Carry on

- So far, since the draft
resistance movement

began last year, between
2,000 and 3,000 young men

have burned their draft cards,
or returned them

to the federal government.

Another 4,000 to 6,000
have fled to Canada,

to avoid the draft.

- It is just another example

of American youth
saying to adults:

"Your values
are not my values."

- The mantra of that
generation is that

you don't have
to believe anything

that your parents told you.

Because look what they got
us into in Vietnam.

You had a generation that was
willing to question authority.

- We had a feeling
of us against them,

you know, us against
the government.

- Now I'll do a song
that I wrote against

the American military.
A song called:

"I Ain't Marching Anymore."

- Phil Ochs had a song

that said, "Always the old,
who lead us into war.

"It's always
the young who fall."

- ♪ It's always the old,
to lead us to the wars ♪

♪ It's always
the young to fall ♪

- We were aware of all that,
you know.

Why would they send us
somewhere

and make us kill somebody?

We're not gonna do that.
So we sang anti-war songs,

- ♪ Saint Peter said,
from Vietnam, I can tell ♪

♪ I know you'll
go to Heaven, son ♪

♪ You served your
time in hell ♪

- We are messing ourselves up,
shows in many ways.

It shows in the racial
hatred in this country.

It shows in the fact,
that at this very moment,

500,000 of our friends
and our brothers

are killing and dying
in a jungle 10,000 miles away.

And it shows in those cards
we all carry in our pockets.

Well, I'm finished.
I'm a free man today.

- By 1968, colleges were
kind of the front line place,

where much of the protest
of this period plays out.

- You saw the creation
of SDS:

Students for
a Democratic Society,

which organized activists

college campus
by college campus.

- In the spring of 1968,
I found myself the chairman

of the Columbia chapter

of the Students for
a Democratic Society.

We are interested in Columbia,
we would like to change it,

we would like to make it free
of these racist elements.

- The central issue
was Columbia expanding

into black neighborhoods,
and destroying them

to build more of Columbia.

- Also, Columbia was involved
in secret research

for war strategies.

We felt that it was our duty
to stop it.

The war research was
symbolic of the war itself.

The expansion to Harlem
we called:

"institutional racism."

- On April 23rd,
there was a rally called,

and all of these
students showed up.

And it turned out
to be a huge crowd.

crowd chanting:
Strike! Strike! Strike!

- It became kind of like
a spontaneous mob.

And we wound up occupying
the main classroom building.

- At Columbia University,
students barricade themselves

into University buildings.

Their leader is a 20-year-old
ex-Boy Scout.

- This is the politics
of confrontation.

The one way we keep going
is by building this strike.

- The task was
to keep topping yourself.

To keep taking
more and more risk.

- The student demands:

no more secret
military research,

no more construction
on land in Harlem,

and no punishment
for occupying the buildings.

- People slept
in sleeping bags,

they slept on the floor.

And we were
constantly brought supplies.

And tossed them
up to the windows.

Within a couple of days, we
were occupying five buildings.

Nobody could go to classes.

- We hope very much
that some settlement

can be worked out
which will not require

us calling on
police assistance.

- Grayson Kirk was the
President of the University.

He was a conservative guy who
was under enormous pressure.

And he wanted to end
this thing,

wanted to bring back order.
- Okay, people, keep cool.

There are cops berating
this crowd here.

None of us will
begin any violence,

so if there's any violence,

it will be
because of the police.

- Gentlemen.

Show them the sidewalk
or the building.

- President Grayson Kirk
makes what he calls,

"a painful decision,"

and invites in the police.

crowd: Strike! Strike!

- The police came in,
on some kind of rampage.

- We have a right to choose!

- Come on, pigs!

- Stop it, stop it!

- Police brought out
the students

who had been holding
about five buildings

for the past few days.

What everyone feared,
took place.

- That's what the cops did.

- We stood in front of Low
Library with our arms locked,

faculty and students singing,

"We shall overcome,
we shall not be moved."

- You look like you've got
a little blood on your face,

what happened?
- Yeah, I think I was

hit with a club,
which started the bleeding.

- The policeman grabbed him
by the neck,

and smashed his face
into the chair.

- I could never again
trust this administration.

I could never again
trust them.

They--if they didn't understand
the kind of brutality

that was gonna be used
on this campus,

they should have.
- The young people were

being attacked
from everywhere.

The United States ingested
the violence of Vietnam.

If there was death
in Vietnam,

there was going to be
death in America.

- In all,
696 arrests were made,

109 injuries were reported.

Most of the injuries occurred
outside the buildings.

- There was this tide that was
swelling across the country,

in which cities were
burned to the ground.

A voice was being raised,
by way of social consciousness,

and demonstration.
all: Got to be ready!

- And it was
an angry voice.

The revolution was televised,
and it was televised live.

- Dissent is a necessary
ingredient of change,

but in a system of government
that provides

for peaceful change,
there is no cause

that justifies
resort to violence.

Let us recognize that
the first civil right

of every American is to be
free from domestic violence.

So I pledge to you:
we shall have order

in the United States.

- In 1968, Richard Nixon
comes up with the phrase,

"The silent center."

- There are millions of people
who do not demonstrate

who do not picket,
or protest loudly.

This is the unspoken
voice of America.

This is the silent center.

- What that referred to
was how the media

was holding up these
young student insurgents

as the paragons of morality.

And Richard Nixon understood,
as no one else did,

that that made the people
who were working hard

and playing by the rules

behind their white picket
fences feel silenced.

- The message was
extremely effective.

We were sailing serenely
on a calm sea,

toward the nomination.

- At this time
in America's history--

this watershed year, 1968--

at a time when America
has never been in more trouble,

at home and abroad,

there is nothing wrong
with this country

that new leadership
cannot cure, and we promise

that new leadership.

- This very large
crowd of students

has come to greet
Senator McCarthy

at South Bend, Indiana.

This is the state in which
he's going to have to meet

with Senator
Robert Kennedy, head-on.

- McCarthy has proven himself
as the genuine voice

of the anti-war movement.
So, Robert Kennedy

has to demonstrate
how he could be superior,

not simply a alternative,
to Eugene McCarthy.

- You may recall, I--
at least, I do, you may not,

but in those early days,
there was general regret

that someone better than I
had not offered himself.

I, uh--

- McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy
were not pals.

McCarthy had a rather...
biting wit.

- I had some of the
same regrets, I suppose.

I didn't know who
the other man was,

but I hoped
there was someone better.

I couldn't name him right
off hand, at the time, but uh--

- My father
didn't like McCarthy,

he thought McCarthy was
um--a feat.

He couldn't picture McCarthy
at a Cuban missile crisis.

- Eugene McCarthy
was basically

a one-issue candidate;
he was a peace candidate.

But Kennedy had
a broader vision,

in terms of what's happening
in the cities,

what's happening around race,
and the issues of poverty.

crowd: We want Kennedy!
We want Kennedy!

- We cannot separate ourselves
no matter where we live.

From the problems, and the
troubles, and the difficulties

that face the whole
of the United States.

- Ladies and gentlemen,
the Vice President,

and the next President
of the United States:

Hubert H. Humphrey.

- I shall seek the nomination
of the Democratic Party.

- When Humphrey came in
as a candidate,

he was regarded
as a Johnson surrogate.

- I will run
on the record

of the Johnson, Humphrey
administration,

but I will not rest on it.

- And it was very clear,
to everybody,

that Johnson
controlled the party.

- President Johnson will
do what he can

to help Humphrey
win the nomination,

and to see that
Senator Robert Kennedy

does not get the nomination.

- Who would be nominated
by the Democratic Party

wasn't necessarily
gonna be determined

by the primaries.
It would be nominated

by the people who controlled
the levers of power,

and that was Lyndon Johnson
and his political machine.

And it was Vice President
Hubert Humphrey

who would be the beneficiary.

- Nevertheless,
if McCarthy/Kennedy amassed

enough delegates through
the primary process,

They might be able
to put pressure

on the Democratic machinery.

- Indiana's May 7th primary
is critical

to the Kennedy strategy
of demonstrating

to party leaders
across the country

that he's the one Democratic
candidate who can win big.

- Indiana can decide
who is going to be

the nominee for
the Democratic Party,

and therefore, very likely,
who's going to be

the next President
of the United States.

- McCarthy couldn't get
any black vote,

Bobby Kennedy managed
to get black vote,

and also get a lot of
the established Democrats.

So his support
looked very broad.

- Well, Senator Robbery Kennedy
has won the first

primary test, in his attempt
to secure the Democratic

nomination for
the Presidency.

- My father really focused on
the people in this country.

His appeal was to really the
most disenfranchised classes.

People who lived
in Appalachia,

blacks who lived
in the Delta,

people from Harlem,
Watts, Oakland,

and, of course, farm workers.

Very similar to
Martin Luther King,

focusing on the poor
and working people.

- In the aftermath
of Dr. King's assassination,

it's Coretta Scott King who
has the legacy of her husband

to draw upon
to make the case

that change was needed, now.

- My husband always said,
that if anything

happened to him,

to carry on his work
for his people.

- Coretta was always
an activist,

before Martin
was an activist.

And she continued
to be outspoken,

in order to make the point

that you can kill my husband,

but this movement
is gonna go on.

- We have seen the power
of nonviolence

in the movement
for Civil Rights.

The campaign for the poor
must go on.

- King's notion was
to try to put pressure

on Congress to do something
about the issue of poverty.

He was proposing,
to use modern terms,

an Occupy movement
on the National Mall.

Not for a day or two,
but to stay.

- I declare this
to be the site

of our new city,
Resurrection City, USA.

- As Dr. King had dreamed,
they built a shanty town

to expose a nation's shame.

They call it Resurrection City,

And it sits on the lawn
beside the Reflecting Pool

at the Lincoln Memorial.

- We come here
for one purpose:

And we don't
intend to leave here

until we conquer
what we came for.

- This is a CBS News
Special Report:

- The very first step
did begin today in Paris,

It was about as small
as it could be.

All of the problems
attendant to a meeting

of sovereign enemies
were present;

who sits where, what language
do you talk in,

what do you agree
to argue about.

- There were
tremendous expectations

on the American side
about these talks.

When the delegation
first arrived,

they just took hotel rooms,
because they thought,

"Well, this is only
gonna be a few weeks.

"And then we'll get
a negotiated settlement."

- The President is disappointed
that the North Vietnamese

today were unwilling to
discuss anything of substance.

- And then after a while,
they had to rent apartments

because it was gonna
drag on a lot longer

than they thought.
- It is already Saturday

in Vietnam, and the latest
Communist offensive

is now in its sixth day.

It may be that the Communists
are trying to remind

the negotiators that
the Vietcong must have

a seat at the
conference table

when the future of Vietnam
is discussed.

- Well, it's a real horse race

out in Oregon, and in that
Democratic Primary there

that could mean so much
to the presidential hopes

of Senator Robert Kennedy
and Senator Eugene McCarthy,

it's too close, the CBS News
Estimate says, to call.

Senator Kennedy did make
clear over the weekend

that the outcome in Oregon
he felt was crucial

to his hopes
for the nomination.

- I can't lose.
I mean, I just--

I can't afford to lose
if I'm going to

remain a very
viable candidate.

- Oregon was just as bad
a state

as you can imagine for Bobby.

Very few minorities,
very suburban, middle-class

were progressive
but kind of polite.

And he never clicked there.

- Oregon was
a McCarthy victory.

We were certainly feeling
euphoric that night.

- Every wagon train got as far
as the Missouri River,

but the real test began
once you crossed the Missouri,

and started up
the Oregon Trail.

And now, of course,
we're on to California.

- The shockwave is spreading
slowly through this

Kennedy election headquarters,
the only word adequate

to describe the result
appears to be catastrophic.

- Kennedy had lost,
but you saw him display

something that doesn't get
talked about nearly enough,

which was Bobby's humor.

- Based on the returns,
I think a, uh--

entirely new look at
my whole organization,

my whole campaign,
is in order.

Which I have done,
and I have decided

to send my dog,
Freckles, home.

- I like Freckles!

- Aww, I haven't really.
He's coming with me.

crowd: Yay!

- The Oregon Primary
was the first time

a Kennedy has ever
lost an election.

Bobby Kennedy knew he had
to go into California

and he had to win.

- This campaign train is
on a life-or-death mission.

Robert Kennedy's fate
as a Presidential candidate

now hangs on the outcome
of the California primary.

His crowds have been good
this Memorial Day,

in the sun-drenched
San Joaquin Valley.

- Bobby Kennedy,
having lost Oregon,

knew that he had
to win California,

and that would be his ticket
to the convention.

- Kennedy is back
among his people.

And after the satisfied
prosperity of Oregon,

which failed to respond
to Kennedy's approach,

the Senator is
again turned on.

- Kennedy!

- He was a rock star.

It gave him a kind of courage
and power to keep going.

- Part of our job,
everybody had to

wrap your arms
around his legs,

so he wouldn't get
pulled from the car

by his admirers.

- He campaigns so hard,

that his--his hand
is swollen,

he loses his voice.

- We're here in
Los Angeles, in California,

you will have
made it possible

and I will work
with all of you.

Give me your help!
Give me your hand!

Thank you!

- ABC News presents:
Race to the White House.

Complete coverage of
the presidential election

year 1968.

Tonight:
the California Primary,

coverage of today's
presidential primary

in the Golden State.

- An hour-and-a-half
after the polls have closed,

in California, the biggest
primary of them all,

a slate of delegates
pledged to Senator

Eugene McCarthy has
established an early lead,

over a slate
of delegates pledged

to Senator Robert Kennedy.

- On the last day,

the early returns
were not good.

Bobby kind of sat nervous,
like a little boy.

Worrying.
- That doesn't mean anything.

49 to 38.
- That doesn't mean anything.

Los Angeles won't be counted
until 10:00 o'clock.

- Why has he got 49%
and I've got 38%?

- Probably Hillsborough.

- But, returns got better,

and Bobby was reassured

that he at least
had a fighting chance.

- With almost a quarter
of the precincts

having reported in now,
Kennedy does lead

with 44% of the votes.

Whoever gets a plurality

gets all of
California's delegates.

- If Gene McCarthy loses,
what happens

to your political life?

- Well, if Gene McCarthy
loses, I guess I'll

have to vote for Kennedy.

- Final totals will be
Kennedy 48%,

Senator McCarthy, 41%.

- In what I consider to be
the most poignant moment

of the entire year,
after the winning result

has come in, and before
Bobby Kennedy goes

to declare victory, he turns
to one of the oldest

Kennedy retainers
and says, "I feel,

"for the first time,
that I've made it on my own.

crowd: RFK! RFK!

- "I feel that I'm finally out

of the shadow of my brother."

crowd: We love Kennedy!
We love Kennedy!

- Thank you very much.

I want to express
my gratitude to

my dog, Freckles,
who's been maligned.

As Franklin Roosevelt said,
"I don't care what they say

"about me, but when they
start to attack my dog--"

But, it--

And I--It's not--
I'm not doing this

in the order of importance,
but I also want to thank

my wife, Ethel.

- It was tremendously
exciting because

for some time now,

it had been building
towards this moment,

getting an anti-war person
in the White House.

And now, my God,

I think it's
really gonna happen.

- My thanks to all of you,
and now it's on

to Chicago,
and let's win there.

- "On to Chicago
and let's win there."

I--I can just still
hear him saying it.

- His aides want him to rush
to a press conference.

The press is waiting, they want
him to give a statement.

And so, they take him
by way of shortcut,

through the kitchen.

- Senator!
- Senator!

- And that's where Sirhan
Sirhan was waiting for him.

- Senator Kennedy
has been shot.

Is that possible?
Is that possible?

It's--

Is it--Senator Kennedy--
Oh, my God.

Senator Kennedy
has been shot.

- Ladies and gentlemen,
we've kept the air on,

because we've heard
an alarming report

that Robert Kennedy
was shot

in that ballroom
at the Ambassador Hotel

in Los Angeles.
A very loud noise,

like a clap of thunder
was heard as...

- The great irony is,
for all the fear of

crowds and tumult, it was
trying to avoid crowds

that took him
through that kitchen.

- Kennedy has been shot!
Oh, my Lord!

- Why?
- If you can shoot it,

please, shoot it!

- Why?
- Look out for the gun!

- No!
- All right?

- Oh, God, no!

- Hold him, hold him!
Hold him!

We don't want
another Oswald!

- Everybody,
please, stay back!

Please stay back,
we need a doctor here!

- Is there a doctor
in the house?

Please, it's very important!
We need a doctor!

- Please--
- Is there a doctor?

- Please leave the room.

Would you please leave the--
- If you do not

leave the room, we cannot get
medical aid to the Senator.

Now would you please
leave the room?

- Please proceed to the exits.

- Any more doctors
in the house?

- After he's shot,
he says to Ethel,

"How bad is it?"

And then he says

to the ambulance attendant
who comes in,

"Please don't.
Please, don't lift me."

And those are his last words
before he goes into a coma.

- There was very much
the sentiment,

how much is
too much to take?

- Robert Kennedy's
now undergoing

a neurosurgical operation.

He is said to be
in very critical condition.

- Senator Robert
Francis Kennedy

died at 1:44 a.m. today,

June 6, 1968.

He was, uh, 42 years old.

- This was really

the death of hope.

A loss of belief
in the entire system.

- My brother need not
be idealized,

or enlarged in death beyond
what he was in life.

To be remembered simply
as a good and decent man,

who saw wrong
and tried to right it.

Saw suffering,
and tried to heal it.

Saw war,
and tried to stop it.

Those of us
who loved him

and who take him
to his rest today,

pray that
what he was to us,

what he wished for others,

will someday come to pass
for all the world.

- Well, I feel almost like
hiding my face as an American

that something like this
could actually happen.

- I think we're havin'
a little too much violence

in this country.

- They go after the good men,
like John Kennedy,

Robert Kennedy,
and Martin Luther King.

- Like Lincoln long before,
Bobby Kennedy's body

was taken in a train.

It was a hot, humid,

awful day,
and the country mourned.

They turned out all along
those old Pennsylvania

railroad tracks between
New York and Washington,

as that funeral train
slowly made its way down

to Arlington Cemetery.

- I'm heartbroken.

I think it's a terrible waste
of a good man.

- It hurts me so bad
to see him go.

- He stood for everybody,
him and his brother,

and what they tried
to accomplish, it's just

a shame how--how they
just shot him down.

- More was being mourned

than the shock and tragedy of
another Kennedy assassination.

What was being mourned
was a vision for what 1968

was going to be.

- The following
is a special report

from CBS News in Washington.

The Poor People's Rally.

For the past six weeks,
Resurrection City

has hung on through
unprecedented rainfall,

and a dwindling population.

- The Poor People's Campaign
built Resurrection City

to finally address racial
and economic injustice

in the United States,
but ends up

a tragic disappointment.

It's one of
the rainiest months

in the nation's capital.

They are living under
deplorable conditions.

- Many of the poor who came
see their high hopes

trickle away
in disillusionment.

The campaign is at
a virtual standstill.

- There appears to be
a kind of insensitivity

to our demands

on the part
of the Congressmen.

- They were completely
taken aback

by the response
of legislators,

many of whom were not moved
by the spectacle.

- There's negotiations for
them to leave peacefully,

They say, no,
they're gonna continue.

So the authorities come
and swoop everybody out.

- The poor people like myself,
and other poor people

they can't get no kind
of help from nobody.

I look at Mr. Kennedy,
look at King,

he was only trying
to help the poor. He died.

Kennedy was gonna help
the poor, and they didn't

give him a chance,
they killed him.

But there's one thing
they forgot,

King had a dream.

They killed the dreamer but
they couldn't kill his dream.

- By late spring of 1968,

a lot of Americans believed

that things can't
get any worse.

But in many ways,
we had some foreboding

of what was coming.

- Convention will
come to order.

- Did we come
all this way for this?

- George Wallace's audiences
growing both in size

and in emotional outbursts.

- Political pigs,
your days are numbered.

- There's real advantages
in being an underdog.

- Troops arriving in Chicago
in substantial numbers.

- Police all over the place,
there's a really big fray

going on in here.
- This is the mood

of this convention
on the floor.

- Thousands of young people
are being beaten,

in the streets of Chicago.

crowd chanting:
The whole world is watching!

The whole world is watching!