Скачать или смотреть What King Said About Vietnam — The Speech That Cost Him Everything

On April 4, 1967, he stood at the pulpit of Riverside Church in New York City and said something that cost him nearly every alliance he had spent thirteen years building.

The Washington Post said he had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, to his country, and to his people." The New York Times called it "Dr. King's Error." 168 newspapers condemned the speech within days. The White House stopped returning his calls. His own SCLC board issued a statement distancing itself from him.

He knew exactly what was coming. The speech said so.

This video covers the full story: the January 1967 Ramparts photographs that broke his silence, the eighteen months of pressure from allies urging him to stay quiet, the alliance with LBJ that the speech destroyed, what he actually said at Riverside Church, the FBI's response, and what happened to American public opinion on Vietnam in the sixteen months that followed.

Everything in this video is drawn from documented primary and historical sources. No speculation. No dramatization.

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