Boston Symphony Audience Learns of the Death of JFK On November 22nd, 1963, at a performance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Erich Leinsdorf delivers the news of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination to a shocked audience. Leinsdorf then announces that the orchestra will play the Funeral March from Beethoven’s third symphony.

James Brown At The Boston Garden This is the famous James Brown concert that was broadcast on WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts less than 24 hours after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...

Remembering James Brown at the Boston Garden, 1968 WGBH Radio looks back at the historic 1968 James Brown concert at the Boston Garden on the night following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and the last minute request by Major Kevin White for WGBH Channel Two to broadcast the event...