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  • , when public sentiment for effective gun control was high following the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy:, it appeared that we might even get the only . really effective control -- licensing and registration
  • - - - EMANUEL CELLER (D.-N. Y.) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1966 THIS IS NO TIME FOR PANIC Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Martin Luther King, able civil rights leader, asks President Johnson to abandon the military junta now ruling South Vietnam
  • professional advisers to presidents. They were I know the night Martin Luther King was killed--for some reason; I don't know why--Clifford was there, was in the office, and he spent the whole time--and I think it almost appears in looking at the contacts
  • to happen then: The President's withdrawal; the Martin Luther King assassination. That was really my first feeling of the difficulties of running an organization like this. Mr. Harding was out of town at the time of the King assassina- tion, and I
  • . There was one time when Martin Luther King had been in to see him, and King went outside, and the reporters gathered around him outside the West Wing entrance. I followed out to see that everything was still in front of the White House, but there was such a big
  • and Cesar Chavez's support for RFK; McCarthy's young supporters; RFK as attorney general and surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr.; RFK's personality; RFK's response to McCarthy's criticisms; public interest in, and perception of, the Kennedys
  • , Mr. Vice President, ladies and gentlemen: moment in the history of the human race. outer We are taking the first firm step toward keeping space free forever from the implements of war. It was more than 400 years ago when Martin Luther said
  • party. Meets at 10 a.m. with members of Urban League. Attends baseball lunch, goes to WH and then to baseball game with JFK, opening day of Washington Senators. Arrives back at P-38 at 5:40 p.m., apparently for meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King. 4/10
  • , and Martin Luther King hold a conference of key Negro leaders in Washington to plan a Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington to draw attention to civil rights issues. May 17th, the third anniversary of the Supreme Court school desegregation issue, is chosen
  • when Ambassador Johnson got a note -- he stopped and read it. "Martin Luther King has been shot in Tennessee." It read A few moments later he reported "Martin Luther King is dead." We were all horror struck but we couldn't do anything and went
  • , that, as in Isaiah, a light There is a little religious mysticism in this. He apparently is a strong believer in the efficacy of good will and the enlightening effect of dialogue. Hence his analogies involving Martin Luther and Charles the Fifth (they never met did
  • , that, as in Isaiah, a light There is a little religious mysticism in this. He apparently is a strong believer in the efficacy of good will and the enlightening effect of dialogue. Hence his analogies involving Martin Luther and Charles the Fifth (they never met did
  • the landscapes that we passed through in Texas. M: I believe you told me that that trip was a little bit overshadowed by some national events at the time. F: Yes. The death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the subsequent riots in the nation's capital were