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MLK on YouTube: Still anti-war, after 4 years or 40.

By Ian Gillingham

Forty years ago today (and exactly one year before he was assassinated), the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a watershed sermon against the Vietnam War at the Riverside Church in New York City. YouTube has a searing video illustrating that his words have lost none of their relevance or impact:

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