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Author JOSEPH ROSENBLOOM, Author of Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last 31 Hours, at the Boston Public Library

March 27, 2018 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Free

Redemption is an intimate look at the last fateful hours of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life. It draws on dozens of the author’s interviews with people who were immersed in the Memphis events as well as on recently released documents from archives in Atlanta. The fresh material yields a wealth of illuminating detail, including a lapse, never before reported, by the Memphis Police Department to provide security for King. Redemption juxtaposes the narrative of King’s last hours in Memphis with an account of what his assassin James Earl Ray was doing in Memphis at the same time.

JOSEPH ROSENBLOOM is an award-winning investigative journalist. He has been a staff reporter and editorial writer for the Boston Globe; an investigative reporter for Frontline, the documentary series on PBS; and a senior editor and features writer for Inc. magazine. His many awards include an Emmy and a Peabody.

Rosenbloom will be joined in conversation by Boston Globe opinion columnist RENEE GRAHAM.

Details

Date:
March 27, 2018
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
http://www.bpl.org/programs/author_series.htm?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D126186227

Organizer

Boston Public Library
Phone:
6175365400
Email:
ask@bpl.org
Website:
www.bpl.org

Venue

Rabb Hall, Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square
700 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02116 United States
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Phone:
617-536-5400
Website:
http://www.bpl.org

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.