A look back at the events of the Summer of '68 and the events that were happening in the world in that year, and the impact it had on the world and the world at large. Glenn Beck takes us back to that time in American history.
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00:01:39.540Well, hello, America, and welcome to the program, the Glenn Beck Program from the Standing Rock Ranch this week up in Idaho, where we haven't really had any protests, but I have been watching them and I have a lot to say.
00:01:57.260And I think perspective that maybe you haven't heard anywhere else. I've been itching to get back on the air to be able to talk to you about it. We begin in one minute.
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00:05:06.120In January of 68, Johnny Cash performed his concert at Folsom State Prison in California.
00:05:16.760The Winter Olympics were about to be held in France.
00:05:20.940And they were to be fully broadcast in color on ABC for the first time.
00:05:25.520The reason why I bring this up is because I want you to think about the technology that was happening in that year.
00:05:34.660The good and the bad that was happening in that year.
00:05:38.2401968 was an important year because while that was happening here in America,
00:05:43.300cash and the Winter Olympics, the Prague Spring began.
00:05:48.020The secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party was the winner and he became the prime minister over the Stalinist candidate.
00:06:02.420And that win brought a very short period of liberalization.
00:06:08.920North Korea at the same time had captured the USS Pueblo.
00:06:12.800It was a U.S. Navy intelligence ship captured it and its crew and held the 83 U.S. service personnel in POW camps for 11 months.
00:06:24.360Meanwhile, the Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of attacks against the U.S. targets in South Vietnam.
00:06:35.760It surprised us and 1,500 Americans died.
00:06:40.400And that was the turning point of the Vietnam War.
00:06:44.740Meanwhile, back at home, civil rights protests at South Carolina State University turned deadly after a police officer was struck with a heavy wooden banister.
00:06:55.520That's when police opened fire and an estimated 200 black students were there.
00:07:00.920Three male students were shot and killed.
00:07:04.560This is the Orangeburg massacre, but you don't really know much about it because the Tet Offensive was sucking up all of the air and getting all of the news.
00:07:13.580It's also the year the first 9-11 call happened.
00:07:17.060First 9-1-1 call was placed in the U.S. in 1968.
00:07:21.400Meanwhile, politically, LBJ was in office and he had the Kerner Commission and they did a report on the status in America and they condemned white racism as the primary cause of the recent riots in the U.S.
00:07:37.860The report declared, our nation is moving towards two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.
00:07:48.380It was then that Senator Robert F. Kennedy announced that he was going to enter the presidential race.
00:07:52.960On the same day, U.S. forces killed over 500 Vietnamese civilians in the Maile Massacre in South Vietnam.
00:08:04.540It was just a few days after that that LBJ announced he's not going to run for re-election.
00:08:10.140And then Martin Luther King was murdered and riots happened in over 100 U.S. cities.
00:09:30.060Richard Nixon won the Republican nomination at the RNC in Miami.
00:09:34.500Walter Headley, he was the police chief in Miami in 1968.
00:09:40.000He said, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.
00:09:43.280And he said that in response to the protests in the predominantly black neighborhoods of Liberty City during the Republican National Convention.
00:09:51.380Late last week, this is what President Trump tweeted.
00:09:54.320The same phrase referring to the looters in Minneapolis.
00:09:57.000It was at that time when America was busy with their own things that we forgot all about.
00:11:32.400The deaths back in 1968 affected those who were 65 or older.
00:11:38.500I just saw a report this morning that this time the deaths, 81 or older.
00:11:46.860The Miss America pageant Atlantic City had a protest where people were, they were gathering around the freedom trash can.
00:11:54.860Where women could throw away all the manifestations of women's oppression, like bras and girdles and curlers and false eyelashes and wigs and women's magazines.
00:13:36.160It was the games of 1968, the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where the black athletes, American black athletes, Tommy Smith and John Carlos,
00:13:48.780bowed their heads and raised their black glove fist in a salute to the black power movement during the Star Spangled Banner.
00:17:35.360And he's talking about the lunar sunrise and the sunrise for mankind that was just around the corner as we would land a few years later on the Sea of Tranquility.
00:30:42.100And now we're hearing stories and Elijah will tell us what he actually witnessed.
00:30:48.660And we have a couple of witnesses that I hope to have on the air today of bricks being delivered and just dumped down where these writers are being, you know, these writers are meeting.
00:34:09.860And it is unlike any of the other big mobile companies.
00:34:14.620Because the big mobile companies are helping fund anti-freedom of speech, anti-Second Amendment, pro-abortion things, and Planned Parenthood.
00:34:26.360But that's what these companies are actually doing.
00:55:12.820A security consultant investigating the riots told USA Today that they found a majority of the hardcore rioters are far-left and anarchist radicals.
00:55:27.300A peaceful protest in Charlotte was criticized by their own organizers after other groups moved in and hijacked their event.
00:55:34.200They implied it was an attempt to support the movement, but it was co-opted by anarchists and others who were there only to start fights.
00:55:44.880Elijah Schaefer, who works for Blaze TV, was on the ground in Dallas.
00:55:49.080He said the riots didn't have anything to do with black versus white or police brutality.
00:55:55.340He said it was simple class warfare against the rich and shop owners.
00:56:00.540He said organizers showed up with pallets of bricks and said to them, go in this direction towards Victory Park because that's where the rich people live, end quote.
00:56:12.080Now, I want you to listen to this from the from the riot in Los Angeles.
00:56:16.640It's a black woman who came to attend a peaceful protest calling out a group of black clad Antifa white girls for causing problems and vandalizing.
00:57:19.140The evidence is out in the open and it's spreading all over the country.
00:57:22.660And anyone claiming otherwise is either not paying attention or mad because it goes against their narrative or scared that their culpability with the far left is about to be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
00:57:36.180There are three actors in every case, such as this.
00:57:42.080The first, the peaceful activists exercising their right to peacefully protest.
00:57:47.040Whether you agree with them or not, they're operating under the law.
00:57:50.540The second are the troublemakers that want to benefit off the chaos, the rioters, the looters, etc.
00:57:57.640They need to be held accountable under the same law that is protecting the protesters.
00:58:04.160There's a difference between protesters and looters and thugs.
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01:02:19.540Now, here he is in Flint, Michigan, a state that is going easy on all of the protesters, but went really hard on anybody who wanted to open their business.
01:02:33.040And instead of having a riot in Flint, he decides, look, I'm going to talk to everybody beforehand and tell them what the deal is.
01:06:03.680Have you ever heard a story where riots or protesters got so violent and were so close to the White House that the president needed to be moved to the bunker?
01:06:21.840But some unnamed source, again, I don't know if they were trying to make the president look weak or what, but they said that he moved to the bunker.
01:06:31.180And I assume the family moved to the bunker because when they moved to the bunker, all of those who are under Secret Service protection are moved at the same time.
01:06:42.480So the president went to the bunker underneath the White House.
01:06:45.340That's how violent and close this was.
01:07:29.400I'm looking at one of the pictures from the weekend right now, which is right by the White House.
01:07:34.240And there are, I don't know, hundreds, maybe thousands of people all jammed together, all protesting, all screaming about the president and what's going on in this country and stopping killer cops.
01:08:38.820And when it's gathered right outside the White House like this, it's pretty chilling.
01:08:44.940It's pretty chilling when 50 Secret Service agents are injured in protests and riots.
01:08:50.660Our prayers are with the police officers, the good police officers and the and the Secret Service, as they always were, as they were under Obama and they continue to be under Trump.
01:09:03.420These guys serve us and the Constitution.
01:09:08.220And if we're going to be a country, we have to make sure that our our leaders are safe.
01:09:14.100Martin Luther King, what's really also despicable is they're taking a quote out of context, and they're using this a lot.
01:09:21.620A riot is the language of the unheard.
01:09:24.540I don't know if you've heard that in the last few days, but that's Martin Luther King.
01:09:29.360But what they're trying to use it as is King saying that it's OK to riot.
01:09:33.960It's fine for Antifa to loot and pillage, but that's not what Martin Luther King said or did.
01:09:40.600Martin Luther King denounced all violence.
01:09:44.500He understood the psychology of writing of rioting, but he didn't feel it was giving voice to the voiceless.
01:09:54.300He made he made it very, very clear that that part of it is wrong.
01:09:58.980Now, he made the comment in 1966 in an interview with a very young Mike Wallace.
01:10:04.940I want you to listen to the full quote.
01:10:06.880I think we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard.
01:10:12.880And what is it that America has failed to hear?
01:10:15.760It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.
01:10:25.040How many summers like this one do you imagine that we can expect?
01:12:03.300I would like for all of us to believe in nonviolence.
01:12:06.860But I'm here to say tonight that if every Negro in the United States turns against nonviolence, I'm going to stand up as a lone voice and say this is the wrong way.
01:12:39.420He was advocating liberty and justice for all people.
01:12:44.020He was advocating that black people would be able to pursue their own happiness and being treated equal.
01:12:54.640As our documents said, he was warning against naivety, strategic violence and upheaval, a removable part of America's DNA.
01:13:07.120That's why we're an impenitent nation, right?
01:13:10.200We're a republic free of tyranny because on December 16th, 1773, a band of political rebels in Boston dumped 342 chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor.
01:13:23.920In an act of political violence that is could be called terrorism, of course.
01:13:30.920But what they weren't doing, they weren't just trying to piss off all Englishmen and make sure that nobody had their tea and crumpets.
01:14:07.720We, the people in the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, not a perfect, a more perfect union to establish justice,
01:14:17.580ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
01:14:27.380Do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.
01:15:05.020And it's what libertarians refer to as boogaloo time, grounded in the promise of the words, a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state.
01:15:14.620The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
01:15:18.460So, yes, we do have a right under the Constitution to take up arms against the government of the United States.
01:15:30.060Does that sound like a good idea over this?
01:15:36.040See, this is needless violence, and it has no place in civilized society.
01:15:42.800Needless violence only causes more needless violence.
01:15:48.080Two years after Martin Luther King said, a riot is the language of the unheard, two long years, April 4th, 1968, from the balcony of a room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee,
01:16:01.120a white supremacist aimed a Remington 760 game master, 30-06, at Martin Luther King and fired.
01:16:09.000But that night, Bobby Kennedy did something few Americans ever have the opportunity to do, or the guts to do.
01:16:18.520He went in front of a large black audience on his campaign trail that had not heard the news because there was no Internet or Twitter.
01:16:26.060And he had to break the news that Martin Luther King had been murdered.
01:16:45.320But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.
01:17:03.000Robert Kennedy was right that night, and he's still right today.
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01:21:15.880A Michigan sheriff joined protesters in Flint Township on Saturday, putting down his weapon and saying, I want to make this a parade, not a protest.
01:21:57.200Uh, Chris is actually a friend of mine.
01:22:00.240Um, Chris is a guy who has done a lot of volunteer work rescuing, um, slaves all over the world.
01:22:08.860I was with him in Mexico as we went on a mission in Mexico rescuing slaves.
01:22:14.460Uh, and he's a remarkable man, a remarkable man.
01:22:20.280And, uh, we're going to talk to him next.
01:22:23.580He, his speech has gone viral all over the world.
01:22:27.500Uh, he was on, he was the lead story everywhere yesterday.
01:22:32.820We're going to talk to him about how to handle a riot, how to, how do the police behave and what difference it can make if you act like Martin Luther King.
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01:25:57.480This is what I've got to say to the people who are destroying things.
01:26:00.020If you really feel like you have to take an opportunity, like if you're going to be an opportunistic, something is wrong with you.
01:26:06.960If you cannot stand up and fight the good fight, and you want to be a cheater, and go ahead and take what we're trying to do, something is wrong with you.
01:26:14.800Because what we're trying to do is stand up for the basic rights of humanity.
01:26:18.220And that's what we're trying to do, and we're trying to do in a peaceful way.
01:26:21.060Who do not want to go through this anymore?
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01:29:14.240So Chris Swanson is a guy who's done a lot of work for an organization that you are well aware of.
01:29:25.000You actually helped start Operation Underground Railroad where we go and we rescue slaves all around the world.
01:29:35.000Chris was with me in Mexico and I had time to spend with him and I just I love this guy.
01:29:40.900He's the sheriff in Genesee County, Michigan.
01:29:43.260He put down his baton and took off his helmet and he said, I'm with you and so are all these cops and we're nothing.
01:29:54.020We are nothing like the guy who murdered, murdered a man.
01:30:02.240This is actually what he said to the crowd.
02:00:22.740You know, Glenn, I know that, uh, a lot of your, your listeners are probably God-fearing people.
02:00:29.900And I know, because this is America, some of them, uh, are probably not.
02:00:33.980And that's totally okay with me, uh, because it's a free country.
02:00:37.020But, you know, I'm an evangelical Christian.
02:00:38.840And I, I really do believe that what I'm doing is I genuinely sense, uh, you know, the leading and the mission of God to go out there and to capture the truth.
02:00:52.800And so, ultimately, where I feel like my spirit is not only speaking to me, but where I feel like I have the strength of God, is to point the camera and to get into the middle of whatever the mainstream media will not cover and will not show anything that, that compromises or challenges their narrative.
02:01:12.640Uh, CBS carried, um, your video that was from, uh, for the blaze, they carried it and they blurred it out.
02:01:37.420And I think this is vital, uh, because the very dishonest far left media is working tirelessly at the moment to completely, not only discredit myself, but, uh, they always say Elijah Schaefer, who works for Glenn Beck's, uh, blaze TV, as if that's an insult.
02:01:55.160Um, but, uh, they, they, they are, they're trying.
02:01:59.340So I'm going to clear the air right now for your listeners for an exclusive so they can hear this.
02:02:03.740Uh, there was a group of about, I would say 150 rioters.
02:02:14.680They were looting alcohol and partying on the streets while breaking glass.
02:02:19.920These were not people that were grieving over black lives.
02:02:24.380And, uh, the police had successfully splintered the, uh, groups into four or five mobs.
02:02:33.820And, uh, business owners were standing out in front of their businesses with a rifles that, uh, and bats and different types of things to defend their shops because the police had lost control of the city.
02:02:47.760And it wasn't unfamiliar to see somebody, you know, trying to defend their property.
02:02:55.020In rally just today, the police chief said they're not going to defend people's property.
02:02:59.300And people know that it is up to citizens to defend themselves.
02:03:03.200So this man, yeah, this man, um, who the media keeps telling me that I said he was a shop owner.
02:03:13.580He was defending a shop and that's true.
02:03:15.900I spoke to him directly at the next day he's alive and he was defending a bar that he liked.
02:03:21.120He didn't own the bar, but he was attempting to defend a bar, uh, the, some of the rioters and were accosting him from what I saw.
02:03:29.920And again, if he was accosting them first and video surfaces, I will correct myself.
02:03:35.400But from what I saw, I can only go by that, uh, rioters with rocks and bricks and bats and weapons, 150 or more, were accosting him as he stood in front of the bar.
02:03:47.560He started waving his, I think it was a machete, but people calling it a sword, whatever, uh, at the, the individuals.
02:03:54.560Then, like, as they approached him, cause he was defending the shop, then they started stoning him, Glenn.
02:04:27.260It honestly, it honestly looked like something we would have seen out of the Middle East in some of the, you know, worst kind of, of, uh, situations in the Middle East.