The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Part I

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When he was murdered by an assassin’s bullet, MLK was going through a hard time in his life and many close to him say that he knew the end was near. But even he couldn’t have predicted the impact his death would have – good and ill – on the United States.

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1:13.2	Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck. And it's just the two of us today,
1:18.3	which is fine, because we need to keep our nose to the grindstone and really focus on a pair
1:24.8	of really important episodes, which we kick off now.
1:28.3	That's right. We haven't done a two-parter in a while, but as we got into the originally one-parter of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., you were like, man, there's a lot more here that we can just kind of explode this into a two-parter.
1:44.7	Yeah, that was verbatim what I said.
1:47.5	And I said, let's do it.
1:49.6	There was a ton of stuff that I did not know about MLK's assassination.
1:54.7	Yeah, same.
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