University of Wisconsin students stage a protest against the war in Vietnam on Oct. 17, 1967. On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy broke the news of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination to a crowd in Indianapolis. Coretta Scott King, center, MLK’s widow walks in the funeral procession with her family in Atlanta, Ga., April 9, 1968.ASSOCIATED PRESS/GETTY IMAGES/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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