Roads to Memphis

Title
: 
Roads to Memphis

ISBN
: 
9781608832118

Publication Information
: 
[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation : Distributed by PBS Distribution, c2010.

Physical Description
: 
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note
: 
Special feature: bonus video: Writing American history, interview with Hampton Sides.

Personal Subject
: 
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968-Assassination.
 
Ray, James Earl, 1928-1998.

Subject Term
: 
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
 
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
 
African Americans -- Biography.

Genre
: 
Documentary television programs.
 
Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Added Corporate Author
: 
PBS Home Video.

Added Uniform Title
: 
American experience (Television program)

Summary
: 
Documents the story of 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 of 1968. Explores the wildly disparate, yet fatefully entwined stories of Ray and King to create a complex, engaging, and thought-provoking portrait of America in that crisis-laden year.

System Details
: 
DVD, NTSC, WIDESCREEN, REGION 1; 5.1 SURROUND.

Language Note
: 
CLOSED-CAPTIONED.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Stillwater Public LibraryDVD 364.1524 ROANonfiction DVDs