42 - Martin Luther King, Jr.: Life, Legacy and Assassination Conspiracy

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

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🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 111 minutes

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How much do you really know about Martin Luther King, Jr.? Did you know he was so committed to nonviolence that he refused to even defend himself from a white supremacist that once attacked him on stage? That he urged angry neighbors to stay calm after someone bombed HIS house? Did you know a government investigative committee determined that his assassination was likely a part of a conspiracy? A verdict a civil court also later confirmed. Find out all this and more in the longest, deepest Timesuck yet! Today's Timesuck is brought to you by Dollar Shave Club. Go to www.dollarshaveclub.com/timesuck today and get their badass Executive razor handle, four stainless steel, six blade cartridges and a tube of Dr. Carver's Shave Butter sent to your door for only 5 bucks! Best razor you'll ever use Timesuckers!

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0:00.0	On April 4, 1968, pastor, civil rights activist, author, orator, Nobel Peace Prize winner,
0:07.3	Martin Luther King Jr. was shot down as he stood on a Memphis hotel balcony.
0:11.6	He was in Memphis to support a sanitation worker strike, and he was on his way to dinner
0:15.2	when a bullet struck him in the face from above, fracturing Dr. King's jaw, exiting his face,
0:21.1	re-entering his body through the neck, then severing numerous vital arteries and fracturing
0:26.1	his spine in several places, causing severe damage to his spinal column and coming to rest
0:30.8	on the left side of his back.
0:32.4	He would die from these fatal injuries within the hour at St. Joseph's Hospital.
0:37.4	The day before he'd given his final sermon, saying at one point to the primarily African-American
0:41.8	audience before him, we've got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn't matter with
0:46.6	me now because I've been to the mountaintop, and he's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
0:51.8	I've looked over and I've seen the Promised Land.
0:54.6	I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will
1:00.4	get to the Promised Land.
1:02.4	Well King would not make it to his Promised Land of Racial Equality in the United States,
1:07.1	but he did move the racial equality needle a hell of a lot closer to even than it was
1:12.0	when he was born in Georgia nearly four decades earlier.
1:15.2	We examine his life, his death, his legacy, and the most inspiring time suck I've had
1:20.0	the pleasure to examine yet.
1:22.0	Let's explore Dr. King's beautiful dream, a dream dream to mid the ugly racial conditions
1:26.9	of much of his life.
1:28.6	In this power to the people, don't let the man hold you down.
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