AMY GOODMAN: In a moment, we’re going to look at an historical trial in New York over the police department’s stop-and-frisk program. But first, we’re going to turn to the words of Dr. Martin Luther King. It was 45 years ago today that Dr. King was assassinated, shot on the balcony of his hotel room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. We’re going to play a part of a speech Dr. King made to the National Association of Radio Announcers the previous year in Atlanta, Georgia. He spoke about the power of the media and the horrors of the war in Vietnam. It was August 11th, 1967.

REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: We’re going to transform this neighborhood into a brotherhood. We have got to get rid of war. John Fitzgerald Kennedy said on one occasion that mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

And there is a war taking place today in a little Asian country. And the tragedy is that it is the most powerful, the richest nation in the world, that happens to be a predominantly white nation, at war with one of the smallest, poorest nations, that happens to be a colored nation.

And we all know the physical casualties, the nightmarish physical, physical casualties of that war. We see them. We see the rice fields of that little Asian country being trampled at will and burned at whim. We see crying mothers with little babies tightly clutched in their arms as they stand and watch their little huts burst forth into flames. We see fine young men from our own nation dying in mounting numbers, being wounded every day. We see Vietnamese boys and girls, men and women, dying every day. And we see little children being burned with napalm.

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