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Visuals are illustrative. Sources are listed on the long-form episodes.

It turned demands for human rights into a national security problem.

Yes, there was real violence in that era.
But this program didn’t exist to stop violence.
It existed to stop coordination from becoming power.

Tonight, we open the file on one of the Bureau’s most aggressive campaigns — a campaign that ended in a pre-dawn raid, shots fired at close range, and allegations of an execution-style killing.

Chapter Three: The Threat of Peace

To understand why this happened, you have to understand 1968 — not as a date on a calendar, but as an atmosphere.

Vietnam on television every night.
Draft numbers. Protests.
Campuses that didn’t feel like campuses anymore.
Cities where the relationship between residents and police was already brittle.

Inside Washington, the question wasn’t, “How do we fix what’s broken?”
It was: “How do we control what’s breaking?”

Because when institutions feel threatened, their reflex isn’t reform.
It’s containment.

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