And King gives a great speech out of that hospital called "If I Had Sneezed." So they go primarily women and children and the aged. There were a lot of people inside. U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations, Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act, King: A Filmed Record Montgomery to Memphis, The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306, Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World; Nicolas Flagello: The Passion of Martin Luther King. WALT (Caller): Yes. I would like to see the fervor of the civil-rights movement imbued into the peace movement to instill it with greater strength. He knows the bombing and shelling and mining we are doing are part of traditional pre-invasion strategy. The United States got involved in the Vietnam War because they wanted to stop the spread of communism. The problem was that practically everyone in his inner circle - not all, there was James Bevel and a couple of others - but practically everyone in his inner circle advised him strongly not to give this speech. What do they think as we test our latest weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe? He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today my own government. As we all know, Neal, before he died, Robert McNamara, the Defense secretary that had Walt and others over in Vietnam, before he died, of course, announced that he was wrong. Email us: talk@npr.org. A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King's Beyond Vietnam Speech is in many ways even more relevant today than in 1967. . Tonight, however, I wish not to speak with Hanoi and the NLF, but rather to my fellow Americans, who, with me, bear the greatest responsibility in ending a conflict that has exacted a heavy price on both continents. So 60 year(ph) is really, really a hot year here around this particular issue. For as popular as King was, he was a Nobel laureate, there were only one or two news crews who actually came to see the speech that night, Neal. And so the question was, Martin, why would you antagonize the president who has been our friend? 0000002004 00000 n His speech appears below. Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), African American founding fathers of the United States, Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Pueblo, Colorado), Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, San Francisco.
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