Ted Kennedy on the assassination of Martin Luther King

1968 while the fires burned and troops were in the street Kennedy spoke of the Rev. Martin Luther King and the dangers to the country.

"What has become of our land? How many good men must we give before we finally face the fact that the weakness of our society is the weakness in ourselves. We have lets events master us rather than we them. We have let the haters take the lead and we are paying the price for that today. Hundreds of years of oppression must be accomodated not by the least we can do but by the most we can do."

The introductory remarks end at about the 5 minute mark.