News Coverage Following the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Part 1

Description

This film shows NBC News coverage of riots and looting in Chicago; footage of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, and portions of an interview with Rev. Jesse Jackson; Martin Luther King speaking at the Mason Temple in Memphis on April 3, 1968, the night before he was killed; footage of Coretta Scott King following her husband's murder; a statement delivered by President Johnson on April 4, 1968, hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King; and NBC coverage of riots and looting in Washington, D.C.

Collection

Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Series

Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities