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40th anniversary

McCain on MLK: 'We have a long way to go'

April 4: Brian Williams interviews John McCain on the 40th anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Hillary Clinton: Remembering King

Obama on MLK: 'We're light years away' from '68

Sharpton: King’s death ‘led to America exploding’

For Best Buy workers, a 'racial' orientation

NBC archival videos

From the archives: King's assassination

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April 4, 1968: NBC News' report on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

1964: 'Standing firm' at the Democratic National Convention

1965: 'If you can’t be nonviolent, don’t get in it'

In his father's footsteps

April 1: NBC's Tom Brokaw talks to Martin Luther King III.

Where were you when King died? Share your story on Newsvine

'Meet the Press' archives

NBC News

'Disappointed' with rights bill

Then-host of "Meet the Press" Ned Brooks talks with King in 1960.

Interview: Segregation 'morally wrong'

Civil rights pushing too hard, too fast?

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McCain on MLK: 'We have a long way to go'

Hillary Clinton: Remembering King

Obama on MLK: 'We're light years away' from '68

Sharpton: King’s death ‘led to America exploding’

For Best Buy workers, a 'racial' orientation

From the archives: King's assassination

Footage from King's funeral

1964: 'Standing firm' at the Democratic National Convention

1965: 'If you can’t be nonviolent, don’t get in it'

In his father's footsteps

Where were you when King died? Share your story on Newsvine

'Disappointed' with rights bill

Interview: Segregation 'morally wrong'

Civil rights pushing too hard, too fast?

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Civil rights savior

King's 'Meet the Press' interview

King 'disappointed' with civil rights bill

King: Segregation morally wrong

King, Wilkins on Meet the Press

Ruskin, March on Washington controversy

Pushing too hard and too fast

King on the nonviolence movement

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