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A Look Back at 1968 Deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy
April 4, 2018
1968 was the year when the fabric of American society seemed to be tearing apart. Two towering figures, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, were assassinated at the peak of the civil rights movement. The war in Vietnam was costing thousands of young lives and there were anti-war protests in the streets. David Margolick is author of ‘The Promise and the Dream,’ about the intertwined fates of King and Kennedy. He spoke to Inside Edition.
