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In 1968, Martin Luther King and Robert F Kennedy were murdered. Michael Goldfarb reports.

Michael Goldfarb asks the children and grandchildren of Dr Martin Luther King and Senator Robert F Kennedy, who were killed two months apart, about America then and now.

Exactly 55 years ago, two assassinations rocked America. The civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King and Senator Robert F Kennedy were murdered two months apart. Michael Goldfarb retells their story and asks their children, grandchildren and close friends about America in those terrible days and America now. 


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