Good morning. It is friday, october 24th and look its dark in times square. Those days are come, cold rainey fall days. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set we have chairman of deutsche incorporated and nicholas. The kids call him nicki c. Young lashing kent. Nicki c. All right. So we got some news here. Were talking about political news. A serious situation obviously in new york, but if they got it controlled, like if everything has been handled correctly shouldnt be too much of a problem. One question about the process, but it did go as it was supposed to go as they said it would. Well start in new york city where a doctor who recently returned from west africa has tested positively for the ebola virus. At this hour dr. Craig spencer is being treated at bellevue hospital. Hes the fourth case diagnosed in the u. S. And first outside of texas. Dr. Spencer an emergency room doctor who was working in guinea for the Group Doctors without border. He returned to the u. S. On october 17th.
Shattered too soon. Adding to national cemetery. Two brothers gunned down just five years apart reunited. President john f. Kennedys murder In Dallas On November Twenty second One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Three that ended the age of american innocence and plunged the country into violence and social turmoil. At his brothers funeral Bobby Kennedy was consumed by remorse and guilt. And as he reflected on the political life he had shared with john he asked himself who had killed his brother and why. John and Bobby Kennedy had made numerous sentiments including matthew abbass f. B. I. Director j. Edgar hoover fidel castro Labor Union Leaders like jimmy hoffa and southern racists
oswald had acted alone. To done so would have meant confronting terrible truths about his role in his brothers administration and the rage he felt at John Kennedys murder. Just. Just. At the time Robert Kennedy was running for the u. S. Senate in new york he took time off from the campaign to reflect on the year
Thats what the cops did. I dont care what others say doctor Martin Luther king jr. Assassinated in memphis, tennessee. Time has come today senator Robert Francis kennedy was 42 years old. The enemy is no longer closer to victory. The rules have changed today demonstrate against the war in vietnam. Have no place to stay a number of men killed last week in vietnam was the highest this summer. They are running an allwhite Political Party in 1968. My tears have come and gone we all need george c. Wallace for our president of the United States. Vote republican in november. The peace groups are demanding permission to march on Convention Hall. These cops here are tough. Theyd kill you with a smile. As long as im mayor of this town, there will be law and order in chicago. This is the moment of truth for the Democratic Party. Time tuesday night, i spent my evening at senator kennedys Campaign Headquarters to celebrate his victory in california. Tuesday night, i was in ecstasy with joy. Wednesd
Student barricade a university building. The students push forward and the police push back. Washington, chicago, detroit, new york, racial confrontation. A state of emergency. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord. You say you want a revolution well you know please stop please stop we all want to change the world were tired of fulltime jobs for parttime income. You tell me that its evolution well you know i know nonviolence will work. We all want to change the world this what you want to do, destroy the country . Ill destroy a whole bunch of yall. But when you talk about destruction the American Embassy is under siege. Dont you know that you can count me out the country is going to get a new president next january. You know its going to be all right we are planning today new marches. All right i know where they are is worse, hoping to stay alive from day to day. All right i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. No question abo
Need your help. [ cheers ] [ applause ] if you look at the whole year as theater, as real acts of tragedy, there is an almost poetic feeling to it. 1968 was one thing after another. Hardly a day goes by without a report or demonstration or protest against the vietnam war. There is in the land a certain restlessness. Lyndon johnson, whatever else one thinks of him. The stone of vietnam around him. Lyndon johnson is a common murderer. Johnson did things no other things a president did, civil rights, great society, he should have been somebody that every young person and every liberal would have celebrated but they didnt. He became the vietnam war president. We had been told repeatedly were succeeding, defeating them. They cant hold out. Johnson kept saying, there is light at the end of the tunnel. This is a cbs news special report. Saigon under fire. The enemy in vietnam diminished the myth military strength controls that country. The American Embassy is under siege and terror squads cha