Qualla: Landmark for Peace: The Night Indianapolis Didn't Burn https://qualla.com/landmark-for-peace-memorial en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/p/4/d/landmark-for-peace-memorial-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Landmark for Peace: The Night Indianapolis Didn't Burn https://qualla.com/landmark-for-peace-memorial Landmark for Peace: The Night Indianapolis Didn't Burn: Introduction https://qualla.com/landmark-for-peace-memorial/ Photo credit derivative work: ЭLСОВВОLД talk Image:Robert F. Kennedy appearing before Platform Committee, August 19, 1964.jpg: Warren K. Leffler This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Cropped and artifacts removed. Modifications made by Elcobbola., Public domain. Robert Kennedy had just landed in Indianapolis on April 4, 1968. He was campaigning for president, heading to an inner-city rally on the north side. On the tarmac, aides told him Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot dead in Memphis. Police warned him not to go. Riots were already erupting across the country. Kennedy went anyway. Standing on a flatbed truck at the corner of 17th and Broadway, he broke the news to a crowd that had gathered expecting a campaign speech. What they got instead was a five-minute improvised statement, delivered without notes, that is now considered one of the greatest speeches in American history. That night, more than 100 American cities burned. Indianapolis did not.

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Image: derivative work: ЭLСОВВОLД talk Image:Robert F. Kennedy appearing before Platform Committee, August 19, 1964.jpg: Warren K. Leffler This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Cropped and artifacts removed. Modifications made by Elcobbola. | Public domain

]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/p/4/d/landmark-for-peace-memorial-wp/dp4d-landmark-for-peace-the-night-indianapolis-didnt-bu-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Landmark for Peace: The Night Indianapolis Didn't Burn: Five Minutes That Changed a City https://qualla.com/landmark-for-peace-memorial/ Photo credit Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0. Kennedy's speech was raw and unpolished. He quoted Aeschylus from memory. He revealed publicly for the first time that his own brother had been killed by a white man, drawing a direct parallel to King's assassination. He urged the crowd not to give in to hatred or bitterness, but...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/p/4/d/landmark-for-peace-memorial-wp/dp4d-landmark-for-peace-the-night-indianapolis-didnt-bu-five-minutes-that-changed-a-city.mp3 0:06 2 full Landmark for Peace: The Night Indianapolis Didn't Burn: From Idea to Bronze https://qualla.com/landmark-for-peace-memorial/ Photo credit Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0. The idea to memorialize that night came from Indiana Democratic politician Larry Allyn Conrad, who discussed it with Steve Mannheimer, an Indianapolis Star art critic and Herron School of Art professor. Conrad was connected to Herbert A. Simon, whose wife Diane had worked on Kenn...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/p/4/d/landmark-for-peace-memorial-wp/dp4d-landmark-for-peace-the-night-indianapolis-didnt-bu-from-idea-to-bronze.mp3 0:06 3 full Landmark for Peace: The Night Indianapolis Didn't Burn: Two Figures Reaching https://qualla.com/landmark-for-peace-memorial/ Photo credit Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0. Perry's design is arresting in its simplicity. Two half-figures, one of King and one of Kennedy, emerge from solid steel walls that flank a central pathway. The figures reach toward each other across the gap. During construction, the design was refined: the walls were shortened a...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/p/4/d/landmark-for-peace-memorial-wp/dp4d-landmark-for-peace-the-night-indianapolis-didnt-bu-two-figures-reaching.mp3 0:06 4 full Landmark for Peace: The Night Indianapolis Didn't Burn: A President and a Dedication https://qualla.com/landmark-for-peace-memorial/ Photo credit Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0. The memorial's groundbreaking on May 14, 1994, drew President Bill Clinton, Senator Ted Kennedy, Robert Kennedy's widow Ethel Kennedy, and two of King's sons, Dexter Scott King and Martin Luther King III. The unveiling on September 30, 1995, attracted nearly 3,000 people. One of ...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/p/4/d/landmark-for-peace-memorial-wp/dp4d-landmark-for-peace-the-night-indianapolis-didnt-bu-a-president-and-a-dedication.mp3 0:06 5 full Landmark for Peace: The Night Indianapolis Didn't Burn: Still Reaching https://qualla.com/landmark-for-peace-memorial/ Photo credit Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Landmark for Peace stands in the park on Indianapolis's north side, two bronze figures perpetually extending toward each other across an open pathway. It is a memorial to two men who were both killed within months of each other in 1968. But it is also a memorial to a single e...

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