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- Narrator: At 5 pm on April 4th, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King is killed in Memphis, TN. The news travels fast and soon reaches Indianapolis, where democratic Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is speaking in front of a mostly black crowd. Kennedy decides to break the news himself and improvises what becomes one of the most famous speeches in his entire career.
- Robert F. Kennedy: Too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own life on the shattered dreams of other human beings.
- Robert F. Kennedy: Whenever an American's life is taken by another unnecessarily, then the whole nation is degraded. Yet we seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far-off lands. We glorify killing on movie and television screens, and we call it entertainment.