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This clip shows the government’s response to the Washington D.C. riots following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968.
A number of military vehicles pull up alongside government buildings and helmeted and armed soldiers disembark; the soldiers run across a park while others drive past the Capitol building. Soldiers march towards and up the steps of the Capitol building.