MLK: The Assassination Tapes (2012)

Curious minds want to know... documentary movie collection.

Moderator: Maskath3

Watch Docus Amazon   Docus Merchandise

Documentary movie collection.
Post Reply

MLK: The Assassination Tapes (2012)

Post by bunniefuu »

Reporter: Several thousand n*gro
demonstrators are participating

in this largest civil rights
demonstration ever

in Memphis, Tennessee.

Today, as the march moves up
towards city hall,

Dr. Martin Luther King will
speak to the striking workers

and their sympathizers,

now estimated somewhere between
5,000 and 8,000.

Reporter: Chaos has just
broken out downtown.

n*gro youths are smashing windows.

Reporter: Well, chief, what is
the condition of the city?

Police chief: The city is under att*ck.

Martin Luther King, jr.: Like anybody,

I would like to live a long life,

longevity has its place.

Man: This is WMPS headline news at 8:25,

d*ck Weehan reporting, Washington.

U.S. authorities have revealed
a shortage of bombs

in South Vietnam

is curtailing air att*cks
on the Viet Cong.

Reporter: The President has
frequently interrupted

his day-long conference
on Vietnam problems

to stay in close touch with
the volatile racial disorders

throughout the nation.

King: The bombs in Vietnam
exploded home.

They destroyed the dream

and possibility for a decent America.

Lyndon B. Johnson: Let us close
the springs of racial poison

and make our nation whole.

Reporter: The most massive
series of demonstrations

ever attempted is the promise
of Dr. Martin Luther King,

leader of a planned April
Civil Disobedience Drive

in Washington.

Johnson: I will not accept
the nomination of my party

for another term as your President.

King: I will die standing up
for the freedom of my people!

And they will know I spoke the truth.

From Radio Memphis WMPS.

™? W-M-P-S with
the weather scoop! ™?

Here's the WMPS weather scoop
for Memphis in the mid-South.

Considerable cloudiness and mild
with scattered showers

through early Tuesday.

Partly cloudy and continuing mild

Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday.

The low tonight, 55,
the high Tuesday, 75,

and the low Tuesday night, 50.

Present barometric pressure, 29.7.

This is Ray Sherman,

United Press International in Memphis.

1,000 striking sanitation workers

demanded Mayor Henry Loeb hear their grievances.

The garbage collectors, predominantly n*gro,

want higher pay and Union recognition.

James Lawson: We are insisting that justice must be done

for the sanitation workers.

All their just and fair demands must be met.

And that at the same time,

both private business and city government

must provide a greater percentage

of new and important jobs to Negroes.

Henry Loeb: This work stoppage directly
affects the public health.

Let no one make a mistake about it,

the garbage is going to be picked up in Memphis.

PJ Ciampa: I recognize Local 1733

as the bargaining representative

for employees designating exclusive or otherwise.

He doesn't want to recognize the Union.

Reporter: The Memphis chapter of the NAACP

says the Civil Rights Group will begin protest actions Monday

unless the city meets demands of striking garbage collectors.

Reporter: Police used riot control gas

and nightsticks this afternoon

to break up a disturbance among
a group of striking garbage men.

Part of the group of about 1,000 marchers

began rocking a police car, and police waded in.

Man: If I were the Mayor of this city, I would be ashamed.

Roy Wilkins: Anybody who runs around

picking on peaceful people is building for trouble.

[Applause]

Lawson: We probably cannot expect protection of n*gro people

from brutality and from repression locally.

The ear and the power outside of the city of Memphis.

Reporter: Dr. Martin Luther King

has urged the Memphis n*gro community

to engage in a general work stoppage and school boycott

in support of the city's striking sanitation workers.

King: So I come to commend you,

and I come also to say to you

that in this struggle you have the absolute support,

and that means financial support, also,

of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

[Applause]

All over America,

the vast majority of Negroes in
our country are still perishing

on a lonely island of poverty

in the midst of a vast ocean
of material prosperity.

And it is criminal to have
people working a full-time job

getting part-time income.

[Applause]

Loeb: If the men do not return to work immediately,

we will have no choice but to employ others

to protect the public health.

This is Ray Sherman on the scene.

Several thousand n*gro demonstrators are participating

In this largest civil rights demonstration ever

in Memphis, Tennessee.

This massive downtown march on Memphis is now under way.

Several thousand Negroes are marching toward City Hall

at this time.

Many of the demonstrators are
carrying the sign "I am a man."

They stretch out for several blocks.

Later today as the march
moves up towards City Hall,

Dr. Martin Luther King will
speak to the striking workers

and their sympathizers,

now estimated somewhere between 5,000 and 8,000.

Police are on hand with about 600 officers.

Almost the entire force is standing by here

in case any trouble might break out.

Chaos has just broken out downtown.

n*gro youths are smashing windows.

I just saw a...

[Loud bang]

That sound you just heard was the sound of a tear gas

fired by a police officer

in an attempt to thwart this unruly demonstration.

We repeat, several n*gro youths

started running down Main Street,

smashing windows as they ran.

Police are now moving down Beale Street.

Another tear gas canister has just been fired

by Memphis police.

Negroes are running in every direction.

Probably some more glass wreckage

in the downtown section of Memphis.

Tear gas is boiling up from the street,

And the n*gro youths are fleeing from the area.

Police are scrambling down beale street now.

There's been a call of help from other officers.

Officers are in trouble.

The n*gro youths are shouting at this time, "Go, go, go!"

Police have formed a cordon

and are not permitting the march to move any further

at this point.

They are moving in with riot g*ns

and tear gas canisters.

Here comes the tear gas,

and this reporter just got a sting of it.

Main street is littered with pickets.

Nearly every store has had its windows shattered.

No doubt, one of the worst disturbances

that have ever occurred in Memphis.

This is Ray Sherman on the scene again.

[Loud bang]

There went another tear gas canister.

Some youths are still hurling objects at officers.

Police now have cordoned off the area around Clayborn Temple,

where this massive demonstration that went wild and crazy

began earlier today.

Many of the n*gro demonstrators

have taken refuge inside the church

from the tear gas that still fills the air.

And inside the leaders are appealing

to the n*gro youths and militants

to stop and desist from this disorder and v*olence

that has occurred in Memphis.

Lawson: You obviously had a group of boys

who were ready to do that, and they did it.

They didn't come to the march. They didn't consult us.

They are outside of our control absolutely, always have been.

And this time they got their chance to break loose,

and they took it.

Sherman: What happened with Dr. King?

Lawson: Well, we surrounded him with some ministers

and moved him out of the area.

Sherman: In an undisclosed location?

Lawson: Yeah.

Sherman: Do you think this event today

will have any effect on the city government

taking any different type of action

than they have on the strike?

Man: Oh, you can't allow this sort of terror and disruption

to go on in a city like ours.

You can be sure it will have an effect.

Loeb: When the march,

which was to be permitted,

had it remained orderly,

degenerated into a riot,

abandoned by its leaders,

the police, with my full sanction,

took the necessary action to protect the lives and property

of the citizens of Memphis.

It is hereby ordered and invoked a curfew,

which requires all citizens to be off the streets

of the city of Memphis by 7:00 p.m. tonight

and remain off the streets until 5:00 a.m.

Persons on the streets during these hours

who do not have legitimate business or emergency reasons

will be subject to arrest.

What needs to be done will be done.

Claude Armour: There will be 4,000 troops
in this city by 6:00 p.m.,

and the governor's message is that

He is going to maintain law and order.

We should not let fear get the best of us.

And we're going to stop this thing

and see that peace comes back to this community.

Reporter: These troops are armed,

are they carrying amm*nit*on?

General: Uh, yes.

They will protect themselves, of course.

If the situation demands it, they will return the fire.

Reporter: General, do you have any idea of what the cost is

of this operation to the taxpayers of Tennessee?

General: No, I'd be afraid to make a guess offhand.

It's no small cost.

4,000 National Guardsmen into the city.

He's also ordered 200 riot-trained state patrolmen

to Memphis

and has placed an additional 8,000 guardsmen

on standby alert at armories near Memphis.

Henry Lux: The National Guard has been called in.

We have had looting and burning,

and several police officers have been hurt.

We're trying to get it under control at this time.

But at this time, it's spreading.

Reporter: Was it spontaneous or planned?

Coby Smith: Well, it was very much spontaneous.

I think we better go on record as saying, anyway.

Reporter: You mean it was not spontaneous,

but on the record you want to say it's spontaneous?

Smith: I think we'll just let these problems

just iron themselves out, however people want to take it.

Black people are tired.

Reporter: Your group had nothing to do, then,

with trying to take over Dr. King's march yesterday?

Smith: Well, I can't actually say concretely

whether we--we're glad to see the city of Memphis

wake up to reality.

King: I must honestly say that demonstration here yesterday

was something that I had no part in planning.

I was invited here by the leadership to take part,

and we came cold.

We didn't know all of the factors involved.

I came here to make a speech two weeks ago,

as some 15,000 people assembled.

And I assumed that some of the ideological struggles

that we find in most cities over the nation,

particularly in the north, were non-existent here.

Riots are here.

Riots are a part of the ugly atmosphere of our society now.

I would rather put my time and place my energy

Into getting rid of these conditions,

because as long as they're here,

they're going to produce angry people.

Lux: We're still having isolated incidents of vandalism

and some fires, but certainly there is a tremendous decrease.

And I think this is due in part

to the guard men present and heavier patrols.

King: I'm convinced that non-v*olence is the way,

And that v*olence is not the answer.

Reporter: Does that mean there will be no more v*olence

in Memphis?

King: well, I can't guarantee

and go to Washington.

I'm simply saying that

we are going to have a non-violent demonstration here.

Reporter: Dr. King, what are your plans?

King: I will be leaving Memphis later today,

going back to Atlanta.

And my next step would be to come back to Memphis,

And that, we hope, can take place

in the next two or three days.

Reporter: Dr. King...

King: We've got to give ourselves to this struggle

Until the end.

Nothing would be more tragic

than to stop at this point in Memphis.

I want to thank God once more

for allowing me to be here with you.

I left Atlanta this morning, and then I got into Memphis.

And some began to say the threats

or talk about the threats that were out.

Or what would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers.

Well, I don't know what will happen now.

We've got some difficult days ahead.

But it really doesn't matter with me now,

because I've been to the mountaintop.

[Cheering]

And I don't mind.

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life,

longevity has its place.

But I'm not concerned about that now.

I just want to do god's will,

and he's allowed me to go up to the mountain.

And I've looked over,

And I've seen the promised land.

I may not get there with you,

but I want you to know tonight that we, as a people,

will get to the promised land!

[Cheering]

So I'm happy tonight, I'm not worried about anything.

I'm not fearing any man.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

[Applause]

[g*nsh*t]

Reporter: Memphis Police report they have just confirmed

that Reverend Martin Luther King has been sh*t.

Dr. Martin Luther King,

according to what one of his aides told this reporter,

was standing on a balcony.

Man: In the motel room, getting ready to go to dinner.

He was going to my house for dinner, as a matter of fact.

Jesse Jackson: And so I said, "Doctor, are you ready to go?"

And he said, "Yes, Jesse. Let's get ready to go right now."

Reporter: You did hear a sh*t?

Man: We heard what sounded just like a firecracker,

a loud, a real loud sh*t.

Jackson: I said, "Dr. King," and that was it.

And the b*llet exploded in his face.

Man: He had fallen backwards,

and I heard somebody holler, "Oh, Lord!"

Jackson: The b*llet knocked him up off of his feet

in that direction against that ledge over there.

Reporter: Did Dr. King say anything?

Man: He didn't say anything, he just--

He didn't say anything at all.

Sherman: It's a hectic scene tonight.

A b*llet struck Dr. King in the back of the neck.

He was rushed to St. Joseph Hospital in critical condition.

[Siren]

Man: Dr. Martin Luther King was received in the emergency room

at St. Joseph Hospital at approximately 6:15 p.m.

Nurse: Well, I just was told that he had been sh*t.

The report I got was in the shoulder.

It was serious.

That's what I got from Reverend Andrew Young.

Man: He is in the emergency room,

and he is in critical condition.

Man: And there was 20 or 30 doctors,

and they tried external heart massage,

and his respiration muscles were paralyzed,

and everything else was paralyzed,

and he had lost all his sensations.

He still didn't have any blood.

You have to understand, really a massive wound.

I've never seen a wound like this.

7:05 p.m., April 4, 1968,

Martin Luther King was pronounced dead.

Reporter: Do you attribute this

to the v*olence that occurred last week?

Or do you think that this is a continuation of it?

Man: I just have no, no idea why

anybody would want to sh**t Dr. King.

Jackson: God knows this is the most tragic thing

that has ever happened in my life.

Lawson: I cannot in any way try to describe to you

the pain and the shock that I feel on this very dreary moment

in the life of this city, and in the life of this nation,

and in my own personal life.

Jackson: The pathology and the sickness

and the neurosis of Memphis

and of this r*cist society in which we live

is that that really pulled the trigger.

To some extent Dr. King has been a buffer the last two years

between the Black community and the White community.

The White people do not know it,

but the White people's best friend is dead.

Robert F. Kennedy: I have some very sad news for all of you.

Could you lower those signs, please?

I have some very sad news for all of you.

And I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens

and people who love peace all over the world.

And that is that Martin Luther King was sh*t

and was k*lled tonight in Memphis.

[Screams]

What we need in the United States

is not division.

What we need in the United States is not hatred.

What we need in the United States

is not v*olence and lawlessness,

but is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another.

And a feeling of justice toward those

who still suffer within our country.

My name is Ben Hooks.

I knew Dr. King personally and intimately.

I loved him as I would have loved a brother.

And so I call on all of our friends here in Memphis

to stay in your homes tonight.

And rather than break windows or sh**t or hate,

go on your knees and pray to God

that we might live for the things

for which Martin Luther King, jr., d*ed.

Reporter: In Memphis, the manhunt continues.

Police are looking for a young, well-dressed man

seen leaving a brick building

across the street from the Lorraine Hotel.

William Morris: It's believed by the Memphis Police Department,

Mr. Holloman, Chief McDonald, Director Armour, and myself

that an emergency situation does exist,

and at this time, we are asking

that all people of Memphis and Shelby County observe

as we put into effect our curfew,

we request that all persons,

unless it is absolutely an emergency to be on the street,

to go to their homes and stay there until tomorrow

when things hopefully will be in a better situation.

Reporter: Well, Chief, what is the condition of the city?

Police Chief: The city is under att*ck.

This is John True, United Press International, Memphis.

Police and fire department companies are scrambling

in answer to reports of sporadic outbreaks

of looting, fires and an occasional sn*per fire.

Two policemen have been sh*t.

National Guard troops and highway patrolmen

are being called in.

A curfew is in effect in the city tonight

and only emergency traffic is being allowed.

Reporter: The President has turned his full attention

to domestic matters, particularly the v*olence

spawned by the death of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Man: The Governor made the following statement,

"I most earnestly ask the people of Memphis and Shelby County

to remain calm

in face of this most regrettable and tragic incident.

I can fully appreciate the feelings and emotion

which this tragic occurrence has aroused.

But for the benefit of everyone,

all of our citizens must exercise restraint

and caution and good judgment at this time."

Reporter: President Johnson has canceled his trip to Honolulu

for a Vietnam Strategy conference

with Commanding General William Westmoreland and others.

Here in Washington,

the D.C. National Guard troops have been called for active duty

for the weekend as fires and other outbreaks of disorder

continue to plague the nation's capital.

Demonstrations are in progress across the street

right now from the White House.

Reporter: Widespread v*olence and looting broke out

in two areas of New York city tonight.

Extra police were being rushed

into the two largest ghettos in the city--

Harlem and Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section.

Reporter: 3,000 National Guardsmen

are on the street in Chicago tonight.

At least three persons are dead and possibly a fourth.

Reporter: Students enraged by the sn*per slaying

of Martin Luther King

went on a sh**ting and burning rampage

here at Tallahassee early this morning.

Reporter: Demonstrators in the Times Square section

stood on street corners chanting,

"Who d*ed for freedom? Dr. Martin Luther King."

Reporter: The racial v*olence has struck the windy city.

Fires are blazing out of control on the west side

and over it all, the stench of fear.

Reporter: Pope Paul is profoundly saddened

by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.

The Pope went to his private chapel

to pray for the n*gro leader as soon as he learned of his death.

Man: Well, the only thing I can say is

I wish we would quit sh**ting our best people.

Man: We k*lled a President, and now we k*lled a saint.

Man: It does not bode well for 1968.

Ralph Abernathy: Every well-thinking American citizen

ought to be concerned about who k*lled Martin Luther King.

But I am not as concerned about who k*lled Martin Luther King

as I am concerned about what k*lled Martin Luther King.

[Applause]

Reporter: Nationwide, slum rioting has claimed

more than 30 lives,

and damage is running into countless millions.

Reporter: Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb has declared

Friday, Saturday and Sunday to be days of community mourning

in Memphis.

Flags will be flown at half-mast during this time.

Reporter: Police are still seeking the young White man

who assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.,

Thursday night at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis.

Reporter: Mr. Holloman, are you holding a suspect right now, sir?

Frank Holloman: No, sir.

Reporter: Do you have a material witness, sir?

Holloman: No, sir.

Holloman: There was 25 to 30 officers in the immediate area.

The protection was so close that one of the officers

actually saw Dr. King when he was struck by the b*llet.

It would have been impossible to have prevented a sn*per assassin

to have accomplished his purpose.

Reporter: How could he get away with so many men in the area?

Holloman: That's the question that we are trying to establish

at this time.

The Attorney General offered his complete assistance

of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

in the investigation of this crime.

Reporter: President Johnson,

with his Honolulu high-level conference held in abeyance

by the k*lling of Dr. Martin Luther King,

will meet with unspecified Civil Rights leaders

today at the White House.

Meanwhile, Attorney General Ramsey Clark

and three other Federal Officials have flown to Memphis.

Ramsey Clark: We have no evidence

that there was a widespread plot.

The evidence at this time indicates that

it was the act of a single individual.

There are a number of items of physical evidence,

more than you ordinarily have in a crime

and a situation of this type

at this time in an investigation.

The g*n itself and the projectile are in Washington,

and they are under laboratory scrutiny at this time.

That's all I can say on that subject.

Your investigation is spreading?

How far away from Tennessee?

Clark: It will spread as far as the evidence takes us,

and it has spread some several hundred miles

from the borders of Tennessee at this time.

Reporter: Police in Memphis remain mum

on their investigation

of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Here is what police know but say little about--

They are seeking a 30-year-old White man

who spoke with a Southern drawl who called himself John Willard.

There are indications authorities already know

his real name.

In a related development,

a 20-year-old Memphis n*gro youth d*ed early today

and became the city's first victim

of the Thursday night rioting in Memphis

touched off by the assassination of Dr. King.

Scott Peters, United Press International,

the White House.

President Johnson was briefed this morning at 4:00 a.m.

and again at 6:30 on the situation surrounding

the rioting and looting since Thursday night.

Washington looks like a city at w*r, and it is.

There are something like 4,000 troops in the city

and tanks rumble through the streets.

A machine g*n post was set up on capitol hill.

Black smoke can be seen billowing into the air

in many parts of northwest Washington,

some of the trouble just three blocks from the white house.

President Johnson has issued a proclamation

declaring this Sunday

as a national day of mourning throughout America.

Man: We implore our Mayor and City Council

to address themselves with swift dispatch

to the mutually acceptable solution.

We are persuaded that only when

a spirit of flexibility and goodwill dominates

can true peace and progress come to our city.

Man: Mr. Honorable Mayor,

I feel deeply that the apostle, the greatest apostle of peace

in this decade, this age, has d*ed.

I feel that if any constructive and stabilizing forces

are to come on the scene,

it will have to come from our White brother, you.

And it is in this spirit

that you can speak most effectively and constructively.

Man: You're a human being, too,

and somehow we've got to communicate to you as a man.

Man: Mr. Mayor, this is the third time

I've come to you pleading.

If we had been able to get a hearing

as ministers of the Black community,

we never would have needed to send for king or anybody else.

Clark: When Mrs. King arrived,

we met with her briefly on the airplane.

We expressed for the President, for our government,

for ourselves, and the nation, our profound sorrow.

Reporter: They are now slowly rolling the gold casket

containing the body of Dr. Martin Luther King

into the chartered airplane

sent to Memphis by Senator Robert Kennedy.

Police here have had a difficult time controlling the crowds

that have gathered around the plane.

The funeral will be Tuesday.

Dr. King's planned march in Memphis Monday

will be carried out.

Reverend Ralph Abernathy,

who's destined to become the new leader

of Dr. King's Southern Leadership conference,

has announced we will return Monday.

Reporter: The body of Dr. Martin Luther King

has been returned to his home city of Atlanta.

Reporter: It's a gray, overcast day here in Memphis

as thousands of the city's Negroes gather to march

in the interrupted sanitation men's demonstration.

Reporter: The march is running a bit later than planned

due to the late arrival of Mrs. King

who was held up in Atlanta's Airport because of fog.

Reporter: It seems like it is 10 minutes to 11:00,

and the march is just about ready to get under way.

It's an extremely large crowd.

Reporter: Leading the procession,

the widow of the late Dr. Martin Luther King

and her three children,

the Reverend Ralph Abernathy-- Dr. King's successor,

Harry Belafonte,

United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther,

and other Union leaders.

The number of marchers, previously estimated

between 8,000 to 15,000 by various sources,

may be closer to 30,000 or 40,000.

Reporter: Local police have provided the tightest security measures

Ever imposed on the city.

Off they step now, black and white, out here today,

Because their leader had a dream they intend to make real.

Reporter: They walk in total silence.

An almost an unbelievable eerie quiet.

Harry Belafonte: And I've come to reaffirm

that I am as more committed today

to the causes of human dignity

as a Black man who draws strength

from a departed Black brother.

Walter Reuther: The whitest American cannot be free

until he gives his hand to the blackest American

to make him free.

Coretta Scott King: We loved him dearly.

I have always been at his side

When I felt that he needed me.

And so today I felt that

he would have wanted me to be here.

John Chambers, United Press International,

on Capitol Hill.

While Martin Luther King's funeral procession

filed through the streets of Atlanta,

the House Rules Committee sent the 1968 Civil Rights Bill

to the floor for action.

That could come tomorrow.

Scott Peters, United Press International,

the White House.

President Johnson has signed the Civil Rights Bill of 1968.

Johnson: Now with this Bill, the voice of justice speaks again.

Reporter: In an east room ceremony, the President made the bill,

with its controversial fair housing section,

the law of the land.

Man: The city of Memphis recognizes

the American federation

of state, county and municipal employees

as a designated representative in the division of public works.

Man: Go ahead, Brother Jones, take the vote.

T.O. Jones: All in favor of the recommendation,

let it be known by saying "Aye."

All: Aye.

[Applause]

Lawson: And we're not going to let--

I am telling you now on the behalf of these preachers--

We're not going to forget the fact

that we're bound by the blood of Martin Luther King

as well as by the sweat and toil that we've all given.

Reporter: The Justice Department has announced

that James Earl Ray,

the accused assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King,

has been arrested in London, England.

It was said that Ray's arrest

was the result of investigation by the FBI

pursued in all 50 states as well as in Canada, Mexico,

Portugal, England, and other countries.

Hoover said that Ray was detained in England

based on issues of fraudulent documentation of passport,

and also on the fact that he was carrying a concealed w*apon.

Loeb: The citizens of Memphis are elated

over the apprehension of James Earl Ray.

And that's our duty, it'll be a privilege to carry it out.

Lawson: I think it needs to be said clearly,

that so far as the Black community

is concerned in Memphis,

many of us question the idea that only one man was involved.

Knowing, as an example,

how efficiently our police can block off would-be bank robbers

from getting out of the city,

we'd like to know how one man committed a crime,

with the police on the scene within two minutes,

could nonetheless get out of the city by himself.

Reporter: Do you feel that James Earl Ray

could have planned this thing and ex*cuted and done it

completely by himself?

Man: I think so.

My position is that

we have no evidence of a conspiracy.

There are several indications in his background

that he was anti-n*gro and anti-Semitic.

Ted Kennedy: To some, this is a day of sorrow.

To some, this is an occasion for fear.

To me, this is a day of hope.

And if the lives and deaths of Dr. King and Medgar Evers

and those four little girls

in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham

had any meaning, it was that we should use our power

not to create conditions of oppression

that lead to v*olence,

but conditions of hope that lead to peace.

Let us pray as Dr. King prayed

in the universal psalm of brotherhood

that meant so much to him and to you and to all of us

and that should be the prayer of this, this holy day.

If we can help somebody as we pass along,

if we can cheer somebody in this life,

if we can show somebody that he's traveling wrong,

then our lives shall not be in vain.

[Applause]
Post Reply