You Can’t Kill the Truth: Remembering Martin Luther King

By John W. Whitehead

“We’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle to the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point. We’ve got to see it through. Be concerned about your brother. Either we go up together, or we go down together.” —Martin Luther King, Jr., April 3, 1968

As 1968 dawned, the vision of peace and hope that had seemed so promising the year before during the so-called “Summer of Love” was splintering.

On January 30, 1968, the Viet Cong launched what is now known as the “Tet Offensive.” The powerful North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 30 South Vietnamese cities, including Saigon. The American military, which had earlier reported that most of Vietnam was secure and an end to the divisive war was in sight, was stunned. (Full Article)