Martin Luther King, Jr.

Forty one years ago on 4 April 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis.

We think that in 2009 we are experiencing really wild and weird times. These current difficulties are nothing compared to the extremes of the 1960’s or the financial misery of the Great Depression in the 1930’s.

The war in Vietnam was such an extreme example of the government doing whatever it wanted, regardless of the wishes of the people who voted, that lots of rational and sane people were discussing the possibility that revolution might be necessary.

The American military shooting and killing unarmed students protesting against the war on the Kent State campus.

The most popular American president ever being assassinated. Then his little brother Bobby who was the country’s Attorney General being killed. Then the most articulate and non-violent leader of the civil rights movement being shot outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

The 60’s may have had some of the finest music ever, lots of drugs, and the post-pill pre-AIDS “free love” movement. But it also had some really bad things happening too. Extremes on both ends.
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