bitterness. the white people don't know it, but the white people's best friend is dead. >> crowds gathered along harlem's 125th street. >> loot in varying degrees were reported in a dozen or more cities. >> uncontrolled carnival of looting began. >> dr. king gets assassinated and cities in the north go up in flames in riots. there's a sense that the nation is on the brink of civil war. >> once the demonstrators were seen out there burning down things and they were seen a violent, all of the components that made the white man the obvious bad guy suddenly gets reversed. and that was a horrible -- that was a horrible moment of watching the narrative shift. >> martin luther king's death was not the final chapter in the