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    Spring 1968: Returning Home To A Smoke-Filled City And Nation In Crisis

    NPR's Susan Stamberg remembers flying back from India in 1968 to a city and country that was in the middle of a nervous breakdown.
    by Susan Stamberg Apr 03, 2018 2 minutes
    National guard troops patrol outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on April 5, 1968, one day after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

    Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination on April 4, 1968 shook the nation. For me, it was a devastating re-awakening to changes that had taken place in America, in the years I had been away.

    The city was layered in smoke when our plane landed at Washington's National Airport in

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