Though his role was to ask questions of John, he found that more often John would quiz him about the domestic and foreign problems that currently darkened America’s horizons: the vicious attacks on Dr. King’s peaceful rallies and marches, and the increasing scope of U.S. military involvement in a far-off, little-known Asian country called Vietnam. “What really surprised me was what a helluva lot John already knew about this country,” Schreiber remembers. “The thing he couldn’t understand was the violence…the murder of Kennedy, the police brutality against innocent marchers in the South, the
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