EPISODE · Jun 16, 2016 · 29 MIN
Episode 3: Enemy of the State, pt. 2: Revolution
from The Crux · host Matt Pulver
On April 4, 1967--exactly one year before his assassination--King gives a speech that sets him on collision course with the United States government. In a monumental address in August, King defiantly calls out the FBI’s harassment of himself and the movement, but in King’s last weeks his friends and colleagues are concerned about a new worried distraction in him. Ralph Abernathy even makes inquiries into whether or not the FBI had threatened King again.
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On April 4, 1967--exactly one year before his assassination--King gives a speech that sets him on collision course with the United States government. In a monumental address in August, King defiantly calls out the FBI’s harassment of himself and the movement, but in King’s last weeks his friends and colleagues are concerned about a new worried distraction in him. Ralph Abernathy even makes inquiries into whether or not the FBI had threatened King again.
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Episode 3: Enemy of the State, pt. 2: Revolution
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