IN-49.2005.1 Robert F. Kennedy on Death of Martin L. King

Marker text: ROBERT F. KENNEDY SPEECH ON DEATH OF MARTIN L. KING

Here on the evening of April 4, 1968, Kennedy came to address a large crowd of mostly African Americans in his bid for Democratic Party nomination for president of U.S. Instead, visibly shaken, he gave an impromptu speech about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. that day in Memphis, Tenn.

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