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    He risked his career to interview Martin Luther King. It's now streaming for the first time

    by Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times Dec 20, 2019 5 minutes

    Watching talk-show host David Susskind's historic June 1963 sit-down with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., it's easy to become nostalgic for a time when there was more substantive discourse on television.

    The one hour, 41-minute conversation, which took place two months after King was jailed for leading civil rights protests in Birmingham, Ala., made its streaming debut Tuesday on Amazon Prime and on DVD through MVD Entertainment Group. The black-and-white video, restored by the Paley Center for Media, hasn't been seen since it first aired on Susskind's syndicated program, "Open End."

    King revealed to Susskind his plans for a march on Washington later that year. He sharply criticized President John F. Kennedy for not living up to his campaign promises on civil rights, saying

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