Ernie's Secret | E9 The Assassination

Unfinished

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dr. King returns to Memphis on April 3 to make good on his promise to lead a non-violent march. But first he has to get the militants on board. Ernest is relaying dozens of tips from inside every meeting and negotiation. Eye-witnesses share details of King’s final hours, and Ernest is instrumental in getting the most iconic and intimate images out to the world.

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0:00.0	Witness Docs from Stitcher
0:10.0	Previously on Ernie's Secret
0:12.0	They are just broken out downtown
0:15.0	Negro Uses and Smashing Windows
0:18.0	All hell broke loose with these big
0:20.0	Placod holders that were used to break out
0:23.0	winners of stores on Beel Street
0:25.0	and it went viral and it was bloody violent
0:37.0	It was supposed to be a peaceful non-violent march
0:40.0	but the morning after newspapers across the country
0:43.0	told a very different story in their headlines
0:46.0	King's March produces riot in River City
0:49.0	155's, 62 hurt, one dead
0:53.0	Martin Luther King's tactics challenged in Memphis
0:57.0	King leads demonstration, he flees as violence begins
1:06.0	Martin Luther King had let a demonstration
1:08.0	through downtown Memphis that ended in violence
1:11.0	A riot had erupted from inside the march
1:14.0	Windows were smashed, stores looted
1:17.0	One person was killed by the police
1:20.0	By the time King returned home to Atlanta
1:23.0	he was a man in crisis
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