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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 06:16 PM
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Need help! Ten Commandments of Vietnam Speech
A few weeks ago I posted a thread asking if anyone could find to the ten commandments of Vietnam speech that Coretta Scott King delivered with notes she found in her husband's pockets. If got a response and bookmarked the thread but unfortunatley my bookmarks were deleted. If anybody knows where to get a transcript of this speech, that would be great.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 06:18 PM
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1. Here's a link. Is this what you wanted?
Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 06:19 PM by in_cog_ni_to
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2006w05/msg00047.htm

Jet Magazine, May 16, 1968

"Widow Reveals King's 10 Viet 'Commandments'...Mrs. Coretta Scott
King, widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dressed in black
and speaking in a deep, strong voice, read to the crowd assembled in
New York City's Central Park her husband's 'Ten Commandments' on
Vietnam. The 'Ten Commandments' on Vietnam were found among her
husband's notes after he was assassinated. They are:

'Thou shalt not believe in a military victory.'

'Thou shalt not believe in a political victory.'

'Thou shalt not believe that they (the Vietnamese) love us.'

'Thou shalt not believe that the Saigon government has the support of
the people.'

'Thou shalt not believe that the majority of the South Vietnamese
look upon the Viet Cong as terrorists.'

'Thou shalt not believe the figures of killed enemies or killed
Americans.'

'Thou shalt not believe that the generals know best.'

'Thou shalt not believe that the enemy's victory means Communism.'

'Thou shalt not believe that the world supports the United States.'

'Thou shalt not kill.'"
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 06:24 PM
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2. That's part of it
Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 06:25 PM by Hippo_Tron
But before she gives the ten commandments themselves, doesn't she say some things?
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