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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 hastened the demise of the civil rights movement, while SNCC and SDS collapsed from sectarian excesses.
In the 70's, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was convened to investigate the assassinations of President Kennedy and the Reverend Martin Luther King.
This is worth noting because as we compare some of the strategic circumstances in the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, it is to be noted that the careers of both men were taking very sharp turns and they had both undertaken some very significant and radical departures from their past political activities.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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3 The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) The JFK and Martin Luther King assassinations were formally investi- gated by the HSCA in the late seventies.
Now obviously evidenciary tributaries running between the assassinations of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King such as those do not automatically prove that both assassinations were the results of the activities of the same forces.
This has led some people to doubt the validity of investigations into the assassinations of President Kennedy, his brother Robert in 1968, and Martin Luther King, also in 1968.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Congress passed the 1968 Gun Control Act in response to terrible tragedies: the assassinations by firearms of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now Mark Lane has written about the assassinations of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King and he has correctly linked both with the U.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Assassinations of prominent political leaders - John and Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King - took a little gloss off the party, and the American troops mired in Vietnam took off the rest.
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Jordan Jones,
Rapper
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Now in this case, in this context I should say, we can view the assassinations of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King as, in effect, a coup d'etat.
Perhaps it was like the malaise that gripped much of the population after the assassinations of the Kennedys, of Martin Luther King, of Malcolm X.
There is an odd postscript to the assassinations of both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
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