This is the second of a two-part editorial in the Greenfield Recorder published shortly after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (April, 1968). The contrast between the hope of King’s “I have a Dream” speech and his murder five years later is stark. The editors predicted “widespread disorder” during the coming summer. In an election year they even predicted the assassination of a presidential candidate and suggested that the national party conventions “may be the scenes of blood baths.” Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy was killed a few months later in California, and the Democratic convention in Chicago was the scene of bloody rioting.
Greenfield Recorder. “And White As Well.” April 6, 1968. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l08-008/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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