Over the coming hour we'll trace the final year of King's life. We are 11 percent of the population here, and we are 22 and 4/10 percent of the dying force in Vietnam! And over and over again I've seen this dream turn into a nightmare! I've seen promising, young, black boys, who are already facing discrimination at home, going away and dying in disproportionate numbers in Vietnam. And we stood there on those high moments with high hopes. King: I talked in Washington in 1963 about my dream. In 1967, he lamented what had become of that dream. Back in 1963, King stirred the nation with his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He could still thunder from the pulpit, for sure, but his message grew more challenging, and more pessimistic. In the last year of his life, King was, in many ways, not the figure that both his followers and his opponents had come to know. Now if the somber-sounding Martin Luther King who spoke at Riverside Church isn't the towering orator you're used to hearing, stay with me. You're listening to King's Last March, an American RadioWorks documentary from American Public Media. Exactly one year later, he was assassinated. King spoke here at Riverside Church on April 4th, 1967. Most Americans still supported fighting on to victory. The anti-war movement was just gathering steam. These words placed King well to the left of the American mainstream at the time. If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam. King: Now it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. gave one of the most radical and controversial speeches of his life. It was here at Riverside Church four decades ago that the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. It's a classic, Gothic cathedral, with light spilling down from stained glass windows and pointed arches reaching up into a vaulted ceiling. This is Riverside Church in New York City. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. Over the coming hour, King's Last March, produced in cooperation with the Martin Luther King Jr.
But that's not the way he was viewed the last year of his life. was assassinated, he remains one of the most vivid symbols of hope for racial unity in America. Martin Luther King Jr.: I talked in Washington in 1963 about my dream, and we stood there in those high moments with high hopes, and over and over again, I've seen this dream turn into a nightmare!įour decades after Martin Luther King Jr. Stephen Smith: From American Public Media, this is an American RadioWorks documentary.
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