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Martin Luther King's Opposition to The Vietnam War: The 1967 Interview


             

 DateFriday, October 29, 2010 at 6:30 | AuthorScott Lucas in , ,

A moment of intersection: while working on a story on the current US military intervention in Afghanistan, I discovered this interview with Martin Luther King, Jr., on The Mike Douglas Show in 1967.

A bit of background: The Mike Douglas Show was a pleasant but normally undemanding daytime chat show, featuring guests --- often actors and singers --- and musical performances. So the sudden shift to 20 minutes with King, introduced by Douglas as "controversial", in a challenging exchange on the Vietnam War is without comparison today.

The video is in three parts:

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