ID #:
143
Film Type:
DVD
Release Date:
1999
Color or BW:
Color and B&W
Description:
Riots and protests intensified in the U.S. as the war in Vietnam dragged on, with anti-war and civil rights activists seeking violent ways to agitate for peace and equality. This program presents the unrelenting rage that divided the nation during those perilous years, as the Watts race riots, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and the Kent State killings made headline news.
Keywords:
anti-war and civil rights adctivists, assassinatins of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, Kent State killings., protests, Riots, Watts race riots
Notes:
11 of a comprehensive 15-part retrospective, achored by Peter Jennings.