40th Anniversary of MLK assassination-1/5

Democracy Now! Special: Martin Luther King's Life and Legacy 40 Years After His Assassination
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated forty years ago today. He was in Memphis, Tennessee to march with sanitation workers demanding a better wage. We spend the hour on his life and legacy. We hear from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was with King at the Lorraine Motel, where he was killed; Harry Belafonte, who was with Coretta Scott King at the King home in Atlanta on April 4, 1968; Dr. Vincent Harding, a close friend and colleague of King's who wrote King's major antiwar speech, "Beyond Vietnam;" Taylor Rogers, a former sanitation worker in Memphis; Charles Cabbage, a longtime activist and community organizer in Memphis who met with King hours before he died; Jerry Williams, one of the only African American detectives in the Memphis Police Department in 1968; Judge D'Army Bailey, a circuit court judge in Memphis and co-founder of the National Civil Rights Museum; and we hear King in his own words, giving his major speech against the war in Vietnam and his last public address given the night before his death in Memphis, Tennessee. [includes rush transcript]

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[vangoghmatisse1]

MARTIN SO AMAZING!!!!!

[jamesbrown69]

@steelerhog I came here just to point that out, thank you. Jesse is a scumbag.

[tankerfa1]

I CRY ,PREDUDICE RINGS FROM VERMONT HILLS, IM CALLED A "FLATLANDER" WHICH INFLECTION IS "NIGGER" THEY STEAL MY LAND AND SIGN MY NAME TO DOCUMENTS TO ROB ME OF MY RITHS

[knowledgeiswhatsup]

@Choderific: If they were that worthless, then the Jewish owned media would not keep putting them on TV. I don't see Farrakhan on TV like them, even though all of these clowns are on that good ol Jewish payroll just like the white racists.

[bobbytiger]

Thank God.

Another reason for the "Reverend" Jackson to get in front of the camera.

[lumpagogo]

@jtkalehua

Not a single MLK enthusiast has ever denied that MLK "knew" many ladies of all types, not even any of MLK's own family.

[jtkalehua]

@lumpagogo You got any proof you can furnish to back up your claims?

[jtkalehua]

I bet if MLK was alive today, people would be saying the same bullshit about him that they are saying about Jesse Jackson. They'd probably be calling him a racist and the media would be slandering him, as they have Jesse Jackson. Rev. Jackson was there, he faced the dogs and fire-hoses. So stop saying he's a liar, he was there when your people were sending dogs to maul black people in the streets, just for practicing their first amendment rights.

[steelerhog]

It should be noted that after Dr. King's body was taken to the hospital, Jesse Jackson wiped his hands in the pool of blood and wiped it on his shirt right before the reporters arrived. This is just an example of how JJ will exploit a tragedy to further his agenda.