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Documents the story of assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April of 1968. Explores the wildly disparate, yet fatefully entwined stories of Ray

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Documents the story of assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April of 1968. Explores the wildly disparate, yet fatefully entwined stories of Ray and King to create a complex, engaging, and thought-provoking portrait of America in that crisis-laden year.

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Alternate Title: American experience (Television program); Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Additional Contributors: Ives, Stephen; Ferrari, Michelle; Sides, Hampton; Pollak, Amanda

Publisher: [Boston] : - WGBH Educational Foundation , Distributed by PBS Distribution

ISBN: 9781608832118

Language: English

Credits: Editing, George O'Donnell ; music, Peter Rundquist ; cinematography, Rafael de la Uz ... [et al.].

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Not rated

Notes: CPL DVD# 6026825
DVD; widescreen; 5.1 surround; region 1.
Closed-captioned.
Special feature: bonus video: Writing American history, interview with Hampton Sides.

Statement of responsibility: produced by Amanda Pollak ; written by Michelle Ferrari ; directed by Stephen Ives ; an Insignia Films production for American Experience

Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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