James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
- Documentary
- Music
4/5/2008
60
G
Storyline
On April 5, 1968, soul legend James Brown performed a concert in Boston that many say shielded that city from the kinds of devastating riots that ripped other cities apart after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Cast
Cornel WestSelf (as Dr. Cornel West)- James BrownSelf (archive footage)
- Muhammad AliSelf (archive footage)
Michael AmbrosinoSelf- Tom AtkinsSelf
- Charles BobbittSelf (as Charles Bobbit)
- Bobby ByrdSelf (archive footage)
- Martin Luther King Jr.Self (archive footage)
Coretta Scott KingSelf (archive footage)- Robert F. KennedySelf (archive footage)
- Lyndon B. JohnsonSelf (archive footage)
- Richard NixonSelf (archive footage)
- Harry ReasonerSelf (archive footage)
- Al SharptonSelf
- Hubert H. HumphreySelf (archive footage)
- Dennis HaysbertSelf - Narrator (voice)