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The Katie Halper Show

Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr? with Eugene Puryear

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Who actually killed Martin Luther King Jr? The answer may surprise you. Author, journalist and activist Eugene Puryear fills us in. Eugene Puryear is the author of "Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America," a journalist at Breakthrough News and the host of the Punch Out podcast. Hear our patreon-only chat with Eugene about the latest in Ethiopia, what he learned when he went there, his father's role in the Civil Rights Movement, and the worst Happy MLK tweets here https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-with-khs-61390129

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0:41.2

Hello and welcome to The Katie Halper Show.

0:43.2

So excited to be here with you on this wonderful night and we have a great show for you.

0:48.5

It's going to be very informative, very interesting and we're going to be talking about Martin Luther King.

0:53.7

We're going to be talking about his legacy, his life, also his death.

0:57.2

And as people watching this know, obviously, we just got out of Martin Luther King weekend.

1:03.4

And we also don't know a lot about his life.

1:06.3

And when I say that, I mean that the version that American politicians and the media present

1:11.7

of Martin Luther King is very different from the version of reality.

1:14.8

So there's a major distortion that goes on with Martin Luther King's life.

1:18.0

And there's also a lot of stuff that people don't know about his death and we're going

1:21.2

to get into that with our guest.

1:24.4

I didn't do the welcome to The Katie Halper Show thing.

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I did.

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I got really excited about the start of the show.

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So welcome to The Katie Halper Show.

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