In 1965, “The Munsters” was one of the hottest shows on television, a sitcom about a family of actual monsters who thought they were the normal ones and it was everyone else who were the weirdos.
Meanwhile, the civil rights movement was in full swing, with numerous incidents of police responding to peaceful protests with violence and an overwhelming show of force.
Now, more than a half-century later, a speech from Munster family patriarch Herman (the late Fred Gwynn) is going viral thanks to its powerful message, as timely then as it is today.
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