April 5, 1968 was the date James Brown had been scheduled to play the Boston Garden. On the morning after the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. city officials in Boston were scrambling to prepare for a second straight night of violent unrest. A young African American councilman named Tom Atkins proposed not cancelling Brown’s concert like some suggested and instead trying to find a way to mount a free, live broadcast in hopes of keeping people at home and off the streets. Boston’s publ
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April 5, 1968 was the date James Brown had been scheduled to play the Boston Garden. On the morning after the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. city officials in
Dust-to-Digital. . April 5, 1968 was the date James Brown had been scheduled to play the Boston Garden. On the morning after the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. city officials in Boston were scrambling to prepare for a second straight night of violent unrest. A young African American councilman named Tom Atkins proposed not ...
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