Did Dr. Martin Luther King's Death Cause the April Riots? - Garner Ted Armstrong - May 1968

Garner Ted Armstrong

The world was shocked - stunned, by the death of Dr. Martin Luther King. Then, in swift succession, riots, arson, looting and killing broke out in dozens of U.S. cities. World leaders flocked to his funeral. Eulogies and praises for Dr. King could be heard - even from those who only weeks before had called him "rabble rouser." WHY? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? WHERE IS IT TAKING US? Hearing of the shocking and brutal murder of Dr. Martin Luther King filled me with a sense of outrage, sorrow - and foreboding. I had just returned to Los Angeles on that fateful Thursday, after witnessing the blast-off of America's huge Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy in one more of the preliminary tests to America's planned flights to the moon. What a paradox! That morning, I had seen over one hundred million dollars' worth of taxpayers' money thundering into space. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library