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- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- will have the opportunity to review the transcript .
To take up where we left off,
there were other urban disorders in
the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, here in Washington
and in Chicago .
C:
Did you get directly involved in any
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- ci and I.
Lyndon w a s in h is o ffic e - I knew a sta tem en t w as being p rep a red .
He
gave it on TV from the W hite H ouse -" A m erica i s shocked and sadden ed
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b y the b ru tal sla y in g tonight of D r. M artin Luther King.
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- & speeches; LBJ works hard with little rest; Johnsons to Democratic fundraiser that night; Lynda Robb relays news that Martin Luther King has been shot & died; LBJ calls Coretta Scott King & makes televised speech; evening plans cancelled & Hawaii trip
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Luther King?
Were you involved in that from the beginning, that is, from
the moment of the assassination, the investigation and so on?
V:
Yes, there were two divisions here that were involved really.
Division and the Civil Rights Division
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Department for some years, primarily because of
what I regard as its obvious and inexcusable failure to investigate
effectively the shootings of President John F. Kennedy, Reverend
Martin Luther King, Senator Robert Kennedy and, more recently,
Governor George
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- ie t s e r io u s v o ic e s a id ” We t r a v e l
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MEMORANDUM
TH E W H IT E HOUSE
:
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F r i d a y , A p r il 5, 1968
.
WASHINOTON
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w ith a h e a v y h e a r t to d a y , b e c a u s e of th e tra g e d y of D r, King*s d e a th .
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- Lady Bird slept little; Lady Bird has coffee with LBJ; they decide Crossing the Trails of Texas trip should continue; Lady Bird alters speeches to include statement about Martin Luther King; to Dulles airport; Washington & foreign correspondents
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Lady Bird talks to LBJ at Camp David; Lady Bird & foreign press board buses for Goliad; view flowers & cattle; funeral service for Martin Luther King; ceremony at restored Presidio La Bahia; speeches by Stewart Udall & Lady Bird; migrant children
- arborough ca m e up to g r e e t m e .
H e had c a n c e lle d out
a fter the a s s a s s in a tio n of M artin Luther King and I did not e x p e c t to s e e
h im .
I m an aged to be m o r e c o rd ia l than I had been at our la s t m eetin g
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It reminds me of the lines from Idylls of the King, the one called
"Arthur and Modred." One day, as Tennyson relates it, Arthur and Modred
were playing on the sand, and Modred built a sand castle, and Arthur kicked
it away, and Tennyson says, "And ever after