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Historical Blindness

The Killing of Dr. King, Part One: A Dream Defied

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, History, Religion

4839 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this premiere installment of a series on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I honor Dr. King ahead of the MLK holiday by telling the story of his life and work beginning my examination of the circumstances surrounding his much-debated death. Some soundbites on this episode are from the fantastic documentary King in the Wilderness. Be sure to visit the blog at historicalblindness.com for links to further reading and videos of MLK's moving speeches.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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so be sure to pledge your support in order to get the entire story.

0:38.3

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0:43.8

You can hear it wherever you get your podcast and its name tells part of the story.

0:48.2

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0:53.3

Seth and I are the host.

0:54.9

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0:56.1

I am Molly and I'm a science journalist.

0:57.9

And we talk to people smarter than us and we have fun along the way.

1:01.8

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1:03.5

And as Seth said, you can hear it wherever you get your podcast.

1:07.9

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