Government
Apr. 5, 2007
Beyond Iraq
Forum Column - By Stephen Rohde - In a speech 40 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. broke his silence on the subject and decried the Vietnam War. His message, according to some, is all-too-relevant today.
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
By Stephen Rohde
Forty years ago today, on April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a powerful and inspiring speech at Riverside Church in New York City, which has become known as "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence."
One year to the day before he would be assassinated, King declared that he could no longer confine his energie...
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