He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. An honor guard appeared with tricorn hats, fifes and drums — all traditional Revolutionary War iconography.

It is our fate — largely our own doing — to live at a time when the arc is going backward. Backward, perhaps, to the Gilded Age of the 1890s. The president likes to invoke William McKinley, for ...

ST. LOUIS — This week's Vintage KSDK takes us back to April 4, 1968, and our coverage of the tragic day civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned a wisp of a smile to his companion ... “Freedom Walker” William Moore was shot and killed in Alabama. Mississippi’s N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers ...