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    America Used to Have Leaders

    Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 speech following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination offers a stark lesson in what has changed—and what remains the same—more than 50 years later.
    May 31, 2020 2 minutes
    Source: John R. Fulton Jr. / AP

    On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. That night, as explosive protests broke out across the country, Senator Robert F. Kennedy,a presidential candidate at the time, gave the following speech in Indianapolis. Much has changed in America since 1968, yet Kennedy’s words offer a stark lesson in contrasting leadership styles in 2020. They also remind us that the nation is

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