Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis and in response, riots break out across the country. The Academy Award for Best Picture goes to the racially-themed In the Heat of the Night and Hair opens on Broadway. At Columbia University, striking students take control of the campus, leading to a bloody confrontation with police. As the battle of Khe Sahn rages in Vietnam, the United States and North Vietnam open peace talks in Paris. In the presidential race, Senators Kennedy and McCarthy battle each other from state to state in pursuit of the Democratic nomination. After the two trade victories, the nation turns its eyes to the final, fateful California primary.

Starring:

Renee Graham , Mark Kurlansky , Evan Thomas , Mark Bowden , Pat Buchanan , Clayborne Carson , Dan T. Carter , Dwight Chapin , Nelson George , Jeff Greenfield , Tom Hanks , Charles Kaiser , Lance Morrow , Tim Naftali , Rick Perlstein , Dan Rather , Julian Zelizer , Taylor Branch , Michael A. Cohen , Harry Edwards , John A. Farrell , Juan Gonzalez , Myron Harrington , Tom Hayden , Jesse Jackson , Lien-Hang Nguyen , Gloria Steinem , Leonard Steinhorn , Heather Ann Thompson , Yohuru Williams

Genre:

Documentary