Movie: "A Ripple of Hope"
| Release Date: | Apr 2008 |
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| Genre: | Documentary |
| Awards | 2 wins |
| Runtime: | 55 min. |
| Cast: | John Lewis (Himself - U.S. Senator and RFK...) Adam Walinsky (Himself - RFK Speechwriter) Frank Mankiewicz (Himself - RFK Press Secretary) Thurston Clarke (Himself - RFK Biographer) Darlene Howard (Herself - Indianapolis Resident) Jim Trulock (Himself - Indianapolis Resident) Bill Gigerich (Himself - RFK Campaign Staffer) John Seigenthaler Sr. (Himself - Editor & Publisher of...) Jim Tolan (Himself - RFK Campaign Advance Man) Vechel Rhodes (Himself - Indianapolis Resident) Evan Thomas (Himself - Newsweek Assistant Managing...) Peter Edelman (Himself - RFK Aide) Karl Anatol (Himself - Communication Professor) Tom Cochrun (Himself - Radio Reporter) Hurley Goodall (Himself - Indiana State Representative) Michael Riley (Himself - RFK Indiana State Campaign...) Ronald Haldeman (Himself - Friends Minister to the...) Billie Breaux (Herself - Indianapolis Auditor) Rozelle Boyd (Himself - Indianapolis Councilor at...) Jules Witcover (Himself - Baltimore Sun Reporter) Julia Carson (Herself - Congresswoman) Tom Brown (Himself - Indianapolis Pastor) David Armstrong (Reenactor) Adam Fox (Reenactor) Michael Frank (Reenactor) Steve Holtzleiter (Reenactor) Robert F. Kennedy (Himself (archive footage)) David Murphy (Reenactor) Jill O'Malia (Reenactor) De Andre Perry (King / Kennedy Sculpture Visitor) Tom Pettit (Reenactor) Logan Ritchhart (Reenactor) Melissa Wise (King / Kennedy Sculpture Visitor) |
Storyline: It was April 4, 1968. At 6:01 p.m., across the street from the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, a gunman fired a rifle-and the leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., lay mortally wounded. As news of King's assassination spread, American cities were engulfed in chaos and fear. Urban areas erupted in riots. Fires burned out of control. Dozens of people were killed. Robert F. Kennedy, meanwhile, was en route to Indianapolis, where at 9 p.m. he was scheduled to make a campaign appearance in an African-American neighborhood. Pressing questions arose: Should Kennedy venture into the heart of the Indianapolis inner city and talk to the potentially volatile crowd gathered in a park? What could he say that would assuage their grief? Should he defy the Indianapolis city officials who ordered him to stay away? Would his life be in danger? Kennedy didn't blink. Despite the violence raging across the country, he courageously kept his promise to speak, climbing up on a shaky flatbed truck and delivering a moving, extemporaneous plea for peace and reconciliation-a talk that eventually would be regarded as one of the great political speeches of the twentieth century. A Ripple of Hope draws on interviews with Kennedy aides and associates, as well as "everyday people" who were in the crowd that night, to tell the story of an inspiring moment in American history.
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