Sorry, I meant to add that even with the progress in race relations over the past fifty years, since the murder of King, so many issues problems and tensions remain unresolved. I am pessimistic that we will ever have completely harmonious race relations in the U.S. It is still tearing this nation apart.
I will never forget watching Bewitched with my brother and sister that Thursday evening at the age of 8yrs and 4 months exactly, when the show was interupted with the news of Dr. King's assasination. Only time in my life that I ever saw my mother in hysterics.
Only if that education is used to benefit the people. There are plenty of educated ignorant people, and the self serving ones. Besides criticizing white America King also criticized the black middle class for not engaging in the struggle for black emancipation.
Then why do black people continue to call any black man who is educated, law abiding, and doing well for themselves an "Uncle Tom?" I've heard it so many times. It's like they get mad when their people succeed and leave the hood.
As a white man, I’m so glad that my black brothers and sisters are receiving such rights, I love that all of them are being freed to this day from racial injustice, May god be with you to every person, black, white, Hispanic, native, mixed, and all
Not white folks in Chicago, as they hated Dr. King so much that they pelted rocks at his head and he even walked away bleeding. This part of Dr. King's brutal struggle was hidden from us in school by design. Never forget, for if we do history is doomed to repeat itself...
My great-grandmother told me when she was coming out of the kitchen and she came to eat some food while watching tv, she powered it on and in the split second she was shocked and her heart broke, she told me that was the day her Greatest Idol was truly gone. That was in 1968, she was born 1920
I was just 7 years old in 1968. I just remember bits and pieces but they left a lasting mark. I remember Dr. King’s funeral procession, with his casket drawn by a donkey. I remember the horrific scenes captured by news cameras of RFK laying on the floor moments after he was shot as chaos erupted around him. I also remember the people standing at the podium in the minutes following RFK’s shooting asking “Is there a doctor in the house?” As a 7 year old I thought that sounded so strange, almost like some weird version of the childhood game “Mother May I?”
There seems to be a decent amount of network news coverage on MLK and JFK available on youtube. I wish someone would post more news coverage on RFK's passing.
Look it up; there's an entire of his victory speech and the reaction from the crowd, from the ballroom; you won't hear the gunshots, because it was muffled by the crowd noise.
Two factors somewhat limited coverage of RFK’s assassination. One of which was the time he was shot. It happened at 3:15 AM ET and most stations in the east and central time zones were getting ready to sign off. The second factor was that he did live 25 hours after he was shot and didn’t die til the next morning. Therefore ther networks didn’t stay on the air round the clock but did provide frequent updates.
I believe this aired around 8:50pm(et)- I know, because I was watching "BEWITCHED", and it was interrupted at that particular time {the episode was "I Confess"- and Herb Ellis (as "Agent W") was telling Samantha, "They're gathering firewood from Maine to California", when the "ABC News Special Report" slide flashed on screen- "We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this special report from ABC News...here is Bob Young..."}.
I agree, still far to go. Now it is up to black men in the "community" to stop leaving their women after they get them pregnant. The alarming statistic is that nearly 80% of all black children in this country grow up without knowing the father, broken households, unsupervised at home, joining gangs, not graduating high school, going to prison, etc. It stopped being white folk's causing the problems years ago. Now it is time for black people to admit their own faults and starting improving their own lot in life. Yes, indeed, still so far to go….
E ANDERSON It can also stop with the typical stereotype of "black men" that you so dearly hold onto! I know plenty of white men whom have children, and care nothing for them as well! If you make laws that bar a class of people to live in deplorable conditions with poor schools, lack of employment, healthcare, and housing....that yes "white people" made into a law. Tell me again how would you turn out? It's called a redefinition of standards/morals. Something that many classes of people have done in similar situations. When a slavemaster rapes a woman, and leaves a child fatherless, that sees is passed down many generations, and whom did the seed come from?
@@legaltowter9811 Well maybe if this country provided them with resources to get an education after highschool and get jobs, maybe they wouldn’t be in the streets trying to hustle or in prison, and be at home with their family. But of course, the system is made for the white man to succeed. After ages of slavery, you guys think black folks are gonna just be healed of all their troubles and pains? This country was not made for the black man to be successful, so yes, the white man is still at fault. But of course, it’s easy for you white folks to say, you say it with so much ease and try to make yourselves innocent. This is the new form racism. Your comments, exactly that. You have no idea what these folks ancestors went through and the prevalent racism they still experience in their neighborhoods today, so how about you acknowledge the problems they face instead of blaming them for it? Because you sure as hell sound like some racist bums who got called out for it and are now trying to throw massive shade at these folks. I’m not even American but it’s so obvious much of you white folks still have a long way to go before you stop being racist as well.
@@legaltowter9811 Well if such high percentage of African American fathers leave their kids, don’t you think there’s a reason behind that? Something in common? Oh yea, how about maybe a problem that can be addressed but isn’t, something holding them back? So many questions, but so little answers.
Memphis born and raised here. This happened 4 years before I was born. Parents also natives and recall how frightening it all was. They were only 24 and mom was very pregnant with my older sibling. It was like Memphis was gonna burn… except it rained. Maybe a symbol from MLK to curtail any more violence?
There was never a greater man to devote his life to equal rights. If he hadn't died on that day, he would eventually have become President of this country and we would be living in a different place.
Nobody that murders ANYONE is a great man. And no, this wasn't an execution. This was murder. It's ridiculous to think that racial segregation is necessary in the world, anywhere. The United States of America is a nation made up of people of all nationalities. That is what makes this country strong. But regardless, if you wish to live a good life, then you'll learn to live with people of both races!
It’s a shame that Peter Jennings died the way he did he seemed like a really nice guy it’s also a shame how a wonderful man like Martin Luther king jr had died
54 years since MLK was assassinated and America and indeed the World has become even more violent and dangerous. We can only hope that one day we can learn to stop the hatred towards one another. And learn to live with our fellow man. R.I.P Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Tom Jarriel's report likely originated in the studio or newsroom of WHBQ, ABC's then-affiliate in Memphis, since I don't think the network had it's own bureau in that city then.
I think Tom Jarriel had already been at ABC for a couple of years and was sent by the network to cover Dr. King's presence in Memphis during a sanitation workers' strike.
I suspect the Memphis segment was broadcast from the studios of WHBQ, which was then the ABC-TV affiliate for Memphis. I suspect this clip may have been broadcast at 8:30 P.M. ET, given that there was film shot after dark at the scene, which was rushed to WHBQ and quickly developed.
Happened two months and 24 days before I was born . I’ll never understand how anyone sought to kill MLK . I guess I’ll have to “ age out “ or however that goes . This is the most horrible murder of the 1960s .
@@55YoLefty understand. My parents were in DFW then ( they literally met in Dallas in the aftermath of the JFK assassination). Mom told me the MLK Assassination was the worst one that hit her psyche, it seemed like hatred would never stop.
I asked my late Mother about the events of 4.4.68 and all she could remember was that it was hot n Baltimore, MD…….That’s all I got. I did my research and she was correct. The high temperature was 92 degrees.
"In honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.’s memory we also acknowledge non-violence as a truly powerful weapon to achieve equality and liberation--in fact, the only weapon that Christians who struggle for social change can claim as their own...Examine history. Who gets killed in the case of violent revolution? The poor, the workers. The people of the land are the ones who give their bodies and don’t really gain that much for it. We believe it is too big a price to pay for not getting anything. Those who espouse violence exploit people. To call men to arms with many promises, to ask them to give up their lives for a cause and then not produce for them afterwards, is the most vicious type of oppression" *---Cesar Chavez, He Showed Us The Way*
AT 3:16.... THE MUSICAL DIRECTOR LOOKED UP ON THE HILL AND SAW A POLICE OFFICER (FRANK STRAUSSER) MEMPHIS PD IN THE BACK YARD OF JIM'S GRILL WHERE THE REAL SHOOTING TOOK PLACE🕕
@@elisefincher4478 The U.S. government assassinated MLK, NOT James Earl Ray. The King family knew this, and they sued the U.S. government for conspiring to kill him, and they won. The FBI led by J. Edgar Hoover killed king. Do your research. ua-cam.com/video/4TA2AIuAuW8/v-deo.html
"those who have fought for it, that life has a special flavor that the protector will never know, you have never lived. Til u almost died" -Roy Benavidez
Bob Young, who anchored this clip, was interim anchor for ABC's evening newscast during early 1968 until Frank Reynolds took over (which I think was a short time later). Ironically, Young's predecessor, Peter Jennings (yes, he anchored ABC's evening newscast for three years from early 1965 through the end of 1967) also appears in this clip. A little more than a year later, Jennings was "exiled" to Beirut, where he turned out to be a superior foreign correspondent.
Bob Young anchored the evening newscast for ABC from October 1967 through May 1968. It was a turbulent time and he reported many history-making news stories during that brief time, this one among them. ABC News, which had always lagged in the ratings behind NBC and CBS, then adopted a new format with Frank Reynolds reporting from New York and Howard K. Smith in Washington. Many other changes would follow in the ensuing years, including recruiting "superstars" from other networks (first bringing in Harry Reasoner and later adding Barbara Walters; they did not mesh well on or off camera). By the late 1970s Frank Reynolds had re-emerged as at least the first among equals. Following his untimely death in the early 1980s, ABC eventually settled on Peter Jennings as its longtime anchor.
I had heard that ABC had planned to dump their triple-anchor format for "World News Tonight" in 1983 to go to a solo anchor format, but had Frank Reynolds lived, he and not Peter Jennings would have become the sole anchor.
The greatest man to live in the last 120 years a man who followed Christ Jesus he was not perfect obviously because they assassinated him we did not deserve him I love him
I’m seeing an episode of Any Day Now that's entitled "Still My Little Soldier" where the assassination of Dr. King was profiled (Yolanda King guest stared as one of Sara’s friends). No matter how many times I see this episode it gets to me how much hatred a person has inside of them.
A great man a truly great man all his words cry for peace and unity and some fked up people kill that man respect and rest in peace Dr.King From a Thai guy
3:14 “...and when we turned around we saw the sheriff or the police up on the hill (?)...” - Ben Branch, musical director for “Dr. King’s group” Ben Branch is either in shock or he seems reluctant to say all that he knows. Where the police providing security for Dr, King in Memphis?
The shooter who plead guilty instantly plead he was part of a conspiracy. Seeing how things are now, I think they meant to cut that out and didn't get it on the editing room floor, because he said "my back was too the shooting, i didn't see it, .... so we turned and we saw the sheriff and them on the hill" or whatever. I'm sampling this for song I'm doing and I'm glad I got the idea to sample this because I honestly believe the police were in on it, and I currently believe police unions are headed by white supremacists. It just makes sense, and it's why there are so few good cops and why when they try to take a knee with protesters, they're getting jumped by their own 'team'. Seem a few streams of them attacking their own officers who took a knee to keep the peace and protest with them peacefully. I bet if they just ambushed and arrested these KKK protesters half of them would be in the law enforcement of their local precincts where they march.
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"A man might die, nations might rise and fall, But an idea lives on"
-JFK
Word of wisdom.
-Respect
"Don't go to Texas"
- Fbi
Tragic end for a man of God and a man of peace.
+Peter Moran Yes, murder by his OWN people, NOT James Earl Ray. The King family is very aware of this.
+serpentarius51 REALLY??
Sorry, I meant to add that even with the progress in race relations over the past fifty years, since the murder of King, so many issues problems and tensions remain unresolved. I am pessimistic that we will ever have completely harmonious race relations in the U.S. It is still tearing this nation apart.
serpentarius51 Crawl back under your rock, worm.
serpentarius51 no he wasn’t
All he wanted was peace in this world. A legend who will be missed forever.
James Earl Ray didn’t like that idea.
The FBI did it
Keep the slaves divided so they won’t band together to rise up against the ruling class
I will never forget watching Bewitched with my brother and sister that Thursday evening at the age of 8yrs and 4 months exactly, when the show was interupted with the news of Dr. King's assasination. Only time in my life that I ever saw my mother in hysterics.
Rest In Peace Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 1968 you died 53 years ago on April 4, 2021.
Thank you for your words to speak against racism.
An educated black man or woman is a threat to any bigot!!
Any rational, tactful, THINKING human being is a threat to any bigot.
talicia18 Preach!
Only if that education is used to benefit the people. There are plenty of educated ignorant people, and the self serving ones. Besides criticizing white America King also criticized the black middle class for not engaging in the struggle for black emancipation.
Then why do black people continue to call any black man who is educated, law abiding, and doing well for themselves an "Uncle Tom?" I've heard it so many times. It's like they get mad when their people succeed and leave the hood.
james earl ray was the bigot
Let's Keep MLK's Legacy alive
Yes we just need to keep our faith in trump to continue to legacy of MLK and make America great again #trump2020
Jordan Martínez stfu
@@patricksanchez7092 it never was great bruh stfu
@@patricksanchez7092 f*** yourself dumbass shut the f****** this is for Martin Luther King not for Trump
As a white man, I’m so glad that my black brothers and sisters are receiving such rights, I love that all of them are being freed to this day from racial injustice, May god be with you to every person, black, white, Hispanic, native, mixed, and all
Son goku :) much peace ☮️
Fact is. CIA killed MLK and race issues should not allow the assasins to go undetected.
u arent glad .. stop it..... u didnt have to announce u white race
Stop with your guilt they have no rights even today
very guilty
MLK would be horrified to see how America is today
rest in martin luther king jr you were loved
Ryan Butler he still is. We will love him forever.
Not white folks in Chicago, as they hated Dr. King so much that they pelted rocks at his head and he even walked away bleeding. This part of Dr. King's brutal struggle was hidden from us in school by design. Never forget, for if we do history is doomed to repeat itself...
@@hakeemsd70m King of sounds like we missed the second coming.
My great-grandmother told me when she was coming out of the kitchen and she came to eat some food while watching tv, she powered it on and in the split second she was shocked and her heart broke, she told me that was the day her Greatest Idol was truly gone. That was in 1968, she was born 1920
Sad😢
A very sad day in the country and the world.
I was just 7 years old in 1968. I just remember bits and pieces but they left a lasting mark. I remember Dr. King’s funeral procession, with his casket drawn by a donkey. I remember the horrific scenes captured by news cameras of RFK laying on the floor moments after he was shot as chaos erupted around him. I also remember the people standing at the podium in the minutes following RFK’s shooting asking “Is there a doctor in the house?” As a 7 year old I thought that sounded so strange, almost like some weird version of the childhood game “Mother May I?”
We don’t have leaders like MLK Jr anymore. Generations were deprived of his needed leadership.
John, YOU can be that leader. They all started some place
we need a leader and a symbol of hope like MLK in America right now, this place is so full of hate and judgement
Then America should not have killed Dr. MLK., JR. I trust nobody during that time around Dr. King-Just a sad state of affairs even in 2023!
There seems to be a decent amount of network news coverage on MLK and JFK available on youtube. I wish someone would post more news coverage on RFK's passing.
Look it up; there's an entire of his victory speech and the reaction from the crowd, from the ballroom; you won't hear the gunshots, because it was muffled by the crowd noise.
Two factors somewhat limited coverage of RFK’s assassination. One of which was the time he was shot. It happened at 3:15 AM ET and most stations in the east and central time zones were getting ready to sign off. The second factor was that he did live 25 hours after he was shot and didn’t die til the next morning. Therefore ther networks didn’t stay on the air round the clock but did provide frequent updates.
I hope to make even a quarter of change that Martin did. Love you, thank you for all you stood for.
I believe this aired around 8:50pm(et)- I know, because I was watching "BEWITCHED", and it was interrupted at that particular time {the episode was "I Confess"- and Herb Ellis (as "Agent W") was telling Samantha, "They're gathering firewood from Maine to California", when the "ABC News Special Report" slide flashed on screen- "We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this special report from ABC News...here is Bob Young..."}.
Barry I. Grauman Gay
U have an amazingly vivid memory,sir! Must have been a horrible time then.
Let's just say 1968 was a *volatile* year.
@Barry I. Grauman what a memory. Thank you for sharing. It adds some context for us
45 years... unbelievable.. and so far to still go although progress has certainly been made.
I agree, still far to go. Now it is up to black men in the "community" to stop leaving their women after they get them pregnant. The alarming statistic is that nearly 80% of all black children in this country grow up without knowing the father, broken households, unsupervised at home, joining gangs, not graduating high school, going to prison, etc. It stopped being white folk's causing the problems years ago. Now it is time for black people to admit their own faults and starting improving their own lot in life. Yes, indeed, still so far to go….
E ANDERSON It can also stop with the typical stereotype of "black men" that you so dearly hold onto! I know plenty of white men whom have children, and care nothing for them as well! If you make laws that bar a class of people to live in deplorable conditions with poor schools, lack of employment, healthcare, and housing....that yes "white people" made into a law. Tell me again how would you turn out? It's called a redefinition of standards/morals. Something that many classes of people have done in similar situations. When a slavemaster rapes a woman, and leaves a child fatherless, that sees is passed down many generations, and whom did the seed come from?
@@legaltowter9811 Well maybe if this country provided them with resources to get an education after highschool and get jobs, maybe they wouldn’t be in the streets trying to hustle or in prison, and be at home with their family. But of course, the system is made for the white man to succeed. After ages of slavery, you guys think black folks are gonna just be healed of all their troubles and pains? This country was not made for the black man to be successful, so yes, the white man is still at fault. But of course, it’s easy for you white folks to say, you say it with so much ease and try to make yourselves innocent. This is the new form racism. Your comments, exactly that. You have no idea what these folks ancestors went through and the prevalent racism they still experience in their neighborhoods today, so how about you acknowledge the problems they face instead of blaming them for it? Because you sure as hell sound like some racist bums who got called out for it and are now trying to throw massive shade at these folks. I’m not even American but it’s so obvious much of you white folks still have a long way to go before you stop being racist as well.
@@legaltowter9811 Well if such high percentage of African American fathers leave their kids, don’t you think there’s a reason behind that? Something in common? Oh yea, how about maybe a problem that can be addressed but isn’t, something holding them back? So many questions, but so little answers.
@@legaltowter9811 So what are you?
Rest well Sir, from an englishman who is not of your race.
Memphis born and raised here. This happened 4 years before I was born. Parents also natives and recall how frightening it all was. They were only 24 and mom was very pregnant with my older sibling. It was like Memphis was gonna burn… except it rained. Maybe a symbol from MLK to curtail any more violence?
Those days before teleprompter, computers, wireless microphones, boy! Journalists had a rough time.
Martin Luther King Jr passed away 55 years ago today, April 4th 1968😰😰
R.I.P Martin Luther King Jr❤️❤️
What a tragic lost..😭
Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing The civil rights activist is shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn
There was never a greater man to devote his life to equal rights. If he hadn't died on that day, he would eventually have become President of this country and we would be living in a different place.
King 👑 god Jesus Christ is risen still today and he keeping MLK junior and his family legacy alive.
Nobody that murders ANYONE is a great man. And no, this wasn't an execution. This was murder. It's ridiculous to think that racial segregation is necessary in the world, anywhere. The United States of America is a nation made up of people of all nationalities. That is what makes this country strong. But regardless, if you wish to live a good life, then you'll learn to live with people of both races!
R.i.p Martin Luther king 1929-1968
R.I.P MLK..
R.I.P Peter Jennings..
Who is Peter Jennings?
Longtime ABC News anchor. He appears on this report, although he was not the network's anchorman at the time.
RIP Dr King & Malcolm X 🙏🏾🕊
R.I.P. Peter Jennings
It’s a shame that Peter Jennings died the way he did he seemed like a really nice guy it’s also a shame how a wonderful man like Martin Luther king jr had died
He said when he turned around. He seen the sheriff and police on the hill up there. Then they cut him off. I never heard that story.
54 years since MLK was assassinated and America and indeed the World has become even more violent and dangerous. We can only hope that one day we can learn to stop the hatred towards one another. And learn to live with our fellow man. R.I.P Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
No it hasnt u moron 😂
Only in a new earth and heaven
Tom Jarriel's report likely originated in the studio or newsroom of WHBQ, ABC's then-affiliate in Memphis, since I don't think the network had it's own bureau in that city then.
Tom Jarriel later ended up at the ABC network itself as a weekend anchor.
I think Tom Jarriel had already been at ABC for a couple of years and was sent by the network to cover Dr. King's presence in Memphis during a sanitation workers' strike.
FBI got him.
FACTS. So many people do not know this. The king family literally sued them for conspiring to kill him and they won the case.
I suspect the Memphis segment was broadcast from the studios of WHBQ, which was then the ABC-TV affiliate for Memphis.
I suspect this clip may have been broadcast at 8:30 P.M. ET, given that there was film shot after dark at the scene, which was rushed to WHBQ and quickly developed.
Happened two months and 24 days before I was born . I’ll never understand how anyone sought to kill MLK . I guess I’ll have to “ age out “ or however that goes . This is the most horrible murder of the 1960s .
Happened 5mo, 13 days b4 my birth. I wish I had asked by now deceased immediate family members about the events of this tragic day in world history.
@@55YoLefty understand. My parents were in DFW then ( they literally met in Dallas in the aftermath of the JFK assassination). Mom told me the MLK Assassination was the worst one that hit her psyche, it seemed like hatred would never stop.
I asked my late Mother about the events of 4.4.68 and all she could remember was that it was hot n Baltimore, MD…….That’s all I got. I did my research and she was correct. The high temperature was 92 degrees.
1960s was just brutal. Let's not even talk about Vietnam war escalating. Both Kennedy brothers , Malcolm X and King
selfishly, that tom jarriel is 81 years old makes me feel old
This is the fate that Gods people have been suffering for millennium
He was so young, just 39 years
Celebrating ml k day by watching this 2021
RIP
Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929-1968)
His message still reigns...stop the divided racist bs
"In honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.’s memory we also acknowledge non-violence as a truly powerful weapon to achieve equality and liberation--in fact, the only weapon that Christians who struggle for social change can claim as their own...Examine history. Who gets killed in the case of violent revolution? The poor, the workers. The people of the land are the ones who give their bodies and don’t really gain that much for it. We believe it is too big a price to pay for not getting anything. Those who espouse violence exploit people. To call men to arms with many promises, to ask them to give up their lives for a cause and then not produce for them afterwards, is the most vicious type of oppression" *---Cesar Chavez, He Showed Us The Way*
AT 3:16.... THE MUSICAL DIRECTOR LOOKED UP ON THE HILL AND SAW A POLICE OFFICER (FRANK STRAUSSER) MEMPHIS PD IN THE BACK YARD OF JIM'S GRILL WHERE THE REAL SHOOTING TOOK PLACE🕕
i m truly sad martin king jr had his life cut short for no reason whatsoever it was very uncalled for r.i.p. dr king jr
why would they kill him he was a very good men who ever did that is very very !!!!!!wrong
Zarinah Uddeen some sorta white racist guy
Zarinah Uddeen well it was a white supremacist that assassinated MLK so I'd say it's pretty obvious it was a racially motivated assassination.
Zarinah Uddeen the reason why Martin Luther King got assassinated was because he was talking about the Vietnam War
A lot of reasons, he was agains white supremacy, he was against the Vietnam war, basically a lot of people were against him
@@elisefincher4478 The U.S. government assassinated MLK, NOT James Earl Ray. The King family knew this, and they sued the U.S. government for conspiring to kill him, and they won. The FBI led by J. Edgar Hoover killed king. Do your research. ua-cam.com/video/4TA2AIuAuW8/v-deo.html
Rest In Peace mlkj we love you
This is what news is supposed to be
White man with dark clothes sound like a fed to me
"those who have fought for it, that life has a special flavor that the protector will never know, you have never lived. Til u almost died"
-Roy Benavidez
Remembering Dr Martin Luther King Jr. today 55 years ago. RIP
Insane to be able to see vids like this
such a terrible day!
Bob Young, who anchored this clip, was interim anchor for ABC's evening newscast during early 1968 until Frank Reynolds took over (which I think was a short time later).
Ironically, Young's predecessor, Peter Jennings (yes, he anchored ABC's evening newscast for three years from early 1965 through the end of 1967) also appears in this clip.
A little more than a year later, Jennings was "exiled" to Beirut, where he turned out to be a superior foreign correspondent.
Bob Young anchored the evening newscast for ABC from October 1967 through May 1968. It was a turbulent time and he reported many history-making news stories during that brief time, this one among them. ABC News, which had always lagged in the ratings behind NBC and CBS, then adopted a new format with Frank Reynolds reporting from New York and Howard K. Smith in Washington. Many other changes would follow in the ensuing years, including recruiting "superstars" from other networks (first bringing in Harry Reasoner and later adding Barbara Walters; they did not mesh well on or off camera). By the late 1970s Frank Reynolds had re-emerged as at least the first among equals. Following his untimely death in the early 1980s, ABC eventually settled on Peter Jennings as its longtime anchor.
I had heard that ABC had planned to dump their triple-anchor format for "World News Tonight" in 1983 to go to a solo anchor format, but had Frank Reynolds lived, he and not Peter Jennings would have become the sole anchor.
That would make sense. The tributes to Frank Reynolds that were made following his death showed that he was very highly regarded by that time.
Goodness Lbj had a lot of assassinations to cover
I wouldn't be surprised if LBJ had a hand in all three of them...
@@nickfraser4599 Makes you wonder, doesn't it. An eerie amount of coincidences with LBJ's presidency and those murders. Just makes you wonder.
@@justincooper3075 history will out!
@@nickfraser4599 The FBI killed King.
Kyle, I completely agree with you.
In 1968, two assassination incidents- Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Young men whose lives were claimed by an assassin’s bullet!
Freedom is god Jesus Christ 🙏 to give. Lord Jesus we need u all the time.
The saddest day of American history
56 years later ❤❤2024
a graceful man should be remembered.
At the end of the clip is perhaps the first and only time a network news reporter puts over WBAI.
I'm JX100.
KING OF RAP MUSIC 😃
The greatest man to live in the last 120 years a man who followed Christ Jesus he was not perfect obviously because they assassinated him we did not deserve him I love him
Rest in Piece Dr. King
Peter Jennings was a Canadian.
sheltv100 Ess.
Wille please hush...
This Man is a gift from god the savior for black people
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I’m seeing an episode of Any Day Now that's entitled "Still My Little Soldier" where the assassination of Dr. King was profiled (Yolanda King guest stared as one of Sara’s friends). No matter how many times I see this episode it gets to me how much hatred a person has inside of them.
God is risen
We need him now he would be ashamed of America right now
God Bless You Martin Luther king!🙏🙏
God Jesus Christ still know all his people name that take him as savior.
I always thought he was giving a speech when he was shot.
Funny how the police arrived immediately after the shooting 🤔
LBJ postponed his trip to Hawaii until tomorrow. That was mighty white of him.
Lol
I'd say so...considering it's extremely unlikely he gave a damn
Is this good?
🤔 Why I never thought about using walkie-talkies for live broadcast?
Okay isn't the fire department across the street. You guys know what happened
At 3:16 the brother said who they saw up there, then it cut back to the studio.
A great man a truly great man all his words cry for peace and unity and some fked up people kill that man
respect and rest in peace Dr.King
From a Thai guy
So relevant in 2020
A Sad Day For Most People Around The World.
RIP SIR DR.MLK Jr.
So they found a rifle at the scene.
Witness said he only saw acupla sheriff's standing by a hill after the gunshots🤔
Didn’t King’s son actually ask James Earl Ray in front of cameras if he’d killed his father?
I wish he was still alive
3:14 “...and when we turned around we saw the sheriff or the police up on the hill (?)...” - Ben Branch, musical director for “Dr. King’s group”
Ben Branch is either in shock or he seems reluctant to say all that he knows. Where the police providing security for Dr, King in Memphis?
The shooter who plead guilty instantly plead he was part of a conspiracy. Seeing how things are now, I think they meant to cut that out and didn't get it on the editing room floor, because he said "my back was too the shooting, i didn't see it, .... so we turned and we saw the sheriff and them on the hill" or whatever. I'm sampling this for song I'm doing and I'm glad I got the idea to sample this because I honestly believe the police were in on it, and I currently believe police unions are headed by white supremacists. It just makes sense, and it's why there are so few good cops and why when they try to take a knee with protesters, they're getting jumped by their own 'team'. Seem a few streams of them attacking their own officers who took a knee to keep the peace and protest with them peacefully. I bet if they just ambushed and arrested these KKK protesters half of them would be in the law enforcement of their local precincts where they march.
You ever thought someone also had to help from the inside to get him out on the balcony?
2020 anyone? Also it’s been 52 years since he died
I am not sure what year it is right now tbh they have all merged
He should've stayed at the Hilton instead otherwise none of this would've happened!
Martin Luther King (15 July 1927 - April 4, 1968) He was 40 years old.
Ofc it was Memphis
From WHBQ channel 13 now affiliated with fox.
Who had a responsible for the assassination of MLK Jr.?
@9521johnnyboy nah, but i bet u do
What will be the reaction in 2027 when the MLK tapes are released and his words likely show him to less than saintly?
@9521johnnyboy wow... who do you think would care..?
HIS WIFE KNEW HE WOULD BE AT THAT SPECIFIC HOTEL 🏨, 🤦🏾♂️...