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American Experience: Roads to Memphis DVD

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Item #: WA9872
This is the story of an assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April 1968. The film will explore the wildly disparate, yet fatefully entwined stories of Ray and King to create a complex, ... More
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This is the story of an assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April 1968. The film will explore the wildly disparate, yet fatefully entwined stories of Ray and King to create a complex, engaging and thought-provoking portrait of America in the crisis-laden year of 1968.

Roads to Memphis is based, in part, on the book Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides.

A Special Feature included: Writing American History: Interview with Hampton Sides.


Producer: Amanda Pollak, George O’Donnell, Stephen Ives
Executive Producer: Mark Samels
Copyright Year: 2010
Rating: TV-PG
Director: Stephen Ives
Writers: Michelle Ferrari
Number of Discs: 1
Length: 81 minutes
Audio Format: 5.1 Surround
Aspect Ratio: 16x9 Widescreen

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Mike S.
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3.0 star rating
07/05/22
Not exactly what I was expecting
Review by Mike S. on 07/05/22 review stating Not exactly what I was expecting
From the title, and the photo of the DVD cover I expected this to be about the Garbage Workers strike of 1968 and the events leading up to Dr. Kings presence in and reasons for being in Memphis. It seems more like a bio of James Earl Ray and his involvement in the assignation of MLK. So, all in all an interesting bio-flick but certainly not Memphis in 1968. If you really want to know about that time in Memphis I suggest you read At the River I Stand by Joan Turner Beifuss.

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