Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968 is a concert film starring James Brown. Recorded at the Boston Garden by WGBH-TV the night after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., it was broadcast live in an effort to quell potential riots in the city. The recording circulated as a bootleg before it was officially released on DVD by Shout! Factory in 2008 as part of the box set I Got the Feelin': James Brown in the '60s. It received a stand-alone release in 200
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Raw WGBH broadcast captures unscripted tension.
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Black Boston was on the brink; only Brown's show and city officials waiving ticket prices kept 2,000 angry young people inside instead of in the streets.
The bootleg circulated for 40 years before official release because WGBH considered it news footage, not art — the 2008 DVD finally treated it as both.
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