Medgar Evers
assassinated June 12, 1963
Jackson, Mississippi
John F. Kennedy
assassinated November 22, 1963
Dallas, Texas
Malcolm X
assassinated February 21, 1965
New York, New York
Martin Luther King, Jr.
assassinated April 4, 1968
Memphis Tennessee
Robert Kennedy
assassinated June 6, 1968
Los Angeles California
Earlier this week, we were discussing the 1960s - assassinations, civil rights, and music.
These situations, conditions, and efforts overlapped each other: civil rights overlapped music when Bob Dylan wrote his song, "Only A Pawn In Their Game"; assassinations overlapped civil rights, with the leaders of the civil rights movement being murdered on the regular; music overlapped assassinations and civil rights, with the "Pawn" song as well as others - "Blowing In The Wind," etc.
When black Americans had the March On Washington in August of 1963, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez sang for the huge crowd.
President John Kennedy saw coverage of the peaceful demonstration, on TV, and told a White House employee, "I wish I could be out there with them."
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on You Tube, video titled:
Let It Bleed (Remastered 2019)
uploader / channel: The Rolling Stones
(not the album - the song, 5:28)
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April 4, 1968
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