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Holy Week — Part 1: Rupture

Floodlines

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Politics, News, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The first episode of a new podcast from The Atlantic. Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone. Subscribe to Holy Week: theatlantic.com/holyweek Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Podcasts | Spotify The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a powerful era of civil rights in America, but how did this hero’s murder come to be the stitching used to tie together a narrative of victory? The week that followed his killing was one of the most fiery, disruptive, and revolutionary, and is nearly forgotten. Over the course of eight episodes, Holy Week brings forward the stories of the activists who turned heartbreak into action, families scorched by chaos, and politicians who worked to contain the grief. Seven days diverted the course of a social revolution and set the stage for modern clashes over voting rights, redlining, critical race theory, and the role of racial unrest in today’s post–George Floyd reckoning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, Van here. If you liked the flood lines, I hope you'll enjoy my new show, Holy Week.

0:07.4

It's about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the riots in over a hundred cities

0:12.8

in the week that followed. You can check out the first episode here.

0:30.0

Ogre

0:45.0

The Revolution Did First

0:45.3

With Washington's ten-cent Mortmafe mix

0:50.1

It's Otrety

1:13.6

escutter, orange control

1:14.5

it's number one, Swingham

1:15.7

not being ret 축, comes with seven, five.

1:17.1

hits

1:21.1

team out of 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, we have ignition sequence drive.

1:30.1

odds are you don't know much about the Apollo 6 mission.

1:35.1

run, zero, we have to connect, we have liftoff, liftoff, 7AM, Houston stand this time.

1:42.1

if you've ever seen that famous video from outside a rocket detaching from the first stage, just beyond the earth,

1:49.1

then you probably have seen Apollo 6.

1:53.1

it's got a bit of a mixed record as far as space stuff goes.

1:57.1

it was just the second test flight of the Saturn V rocket, one of the most critical components of the entire moon landing program.

2:06.1

on its launch date in 1968, the idea was still new, still uncertain, still dangerous.

2:15.1

now it's 10autical miles, now it's a two, hitting out beyond the earth's atmosphere.

2:20.1

not willing to wait.

2:23.1

it had been just six years since President Kennedy announced we would go to the moon.

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