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King and Ray
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968, shocked the nation and forever tied together two men who, as anchorman Dan Rather puts it, “shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath.”
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Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the 20th century.

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Follow LBJ from rural Texas to his ascendancy to the presidency after the assassination of JFK.

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Part of the award-winning The Presidents collection.