They fought for peace. They fought for justice. The fought for equality. They had to go.
In the 1960s, a series of catastrophic assassinations forever altered the course of American history. A generation that looked forward to remaking the world into a more equitable, just, and peaceful place was forever disillusioned. Nothing would be the same.
The consequences of the killings of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert Kennedy remain with us to the present day. There is no understanding our current predicament without appreciating the forces that directed these earth-shaking acts of state, for in the final analysis, these four major assassinations and the lies that continue to attend them represent a lethal assault on democracy itself.
In over a hundred interviews with friends, family, colleagues, witnesses, and perpetrators, the feature documentary and series Four Died Trying makes a last attempt at a compr