1.0 link 95098 <![CDATA[Just Forty Years Ago]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-mankiewicz/just-forty-years-ago_b_95098.html 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 areas with him, from church to church, to see if they could calm down...

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