Frank Mankiewicz: Just Forty Years Ago
Apr 4, 2008 - On the day of Martin Luther King's assassination, just 40 years ago, Senator Robert Kennedy postponed his campaign for the presidency until after Dr. King's funeral, and returned to Washington.
The two days later were filled with rioting and fires in the capital and on Sunday, Rev. Walter Fauntroy, the civil rights leader in D.C., called Senator Kennedy and asked him to walk around the riot-torn…