Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, June 11, 1963, were breaking format a bit today and talking about four things.

This was a day in which four really significant events, four moments that seer themselves

into our historical memory all happened on the same day.

So June 11th, 1963 was the day that Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked the entrance

to the University of Alabama in an attempt to keep out two black

students from entering and desegregating the school.

In response, President Kennedy ordered that the Alabama National Guard be federalized, the

guard then ordered Wallace to step aside and let the students

through a few hours later. The second event related that evening JFK

a groundbreaking civil rights speech to the country televised across the country

declaring that the US quote will not be fully free until all of its

citizens are free. The third moment later that night technically just

after midnight.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers is assassinated in front of his home.

He had just gotten home from watching Kennedy's speech actually and reports were that he was

overjoyed by the remarks.

Now, this is one of the first significant political killings of the 60s,

the killing of a civilian organizer.

It would take decades for the man who killed Evers, Byron Dela Beckwith, to face trial.

Meanwhile, across the world, Buddhist monks marched through the streets of Saigon protesting

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