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Apr 9, 2018 · When the filmmakers behind HBO’s new documentary King in the Wilderness first began wading through television news stories of Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59) from his assassination to the present, they found that all of them defined him solely by his iconic 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech.
King in the Wilderness is an American documentary film about Martin Luther King Jr. that premiered on April 2, 2018 on HBO, focusing on the final two years of his life leading up to his assassination on April 4, 1968.
Mar 30, 2018 · Many of the images of violence that we see in “King in the Wilderness” seem as though they could be taken today and it’s depressing that 50 years after Dr. King’s assassination the country seems just as polarized and violent as it did in the Civil Rights era.
Apr 4, 2018 · Instead, it takes a deeper look into the life and death of MLK, who was assassinated April 4, 1968 — 50 years ago today. King gave his iconic “ I Have a Dream ” speech in 1963, a moment that ...
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Mar 29, 2018 · When King did, saying “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government,” he was attacked on all sides. “He died,” Clayton pointedly comments, “of a broken heart.”
Feb 1, 2018 · It just wasn’t made public. The movie humanizes King, in occasionally startling ways.
King in the Wilderness chronicles the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. While the Black Power movement saw his nonviolence as weakness, and President Lyndon B. Johnson saw his anti-Vietnam War speeches as ...
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