barry gordy recorded it. he was about to sell it, august 28th. date of sale was august 28th, the date king gave the speech in washington, rendering the first speech irrelevant. he also record the second one and he recorded langston hughes and many other african-american figures. so he had that sort of connection to trying to popularize in a way the politics of the time. but he wasn't directly political. >> you mentioned some of the characters, ford, walter, cavanagh, mayor cavanagh. can you tell us a little bit why you chose them and what you found? >> you know they emerged from my reporting. i didn't start by saying i'm going to write, i mean there are many, many characters in my book but i didn't start by saying these are the key people. i thought these are the key idea and how do i, how do i enrich those? so henry ford the ii i chose, you write about gm. it is much larger but ford is always more interesting from the original start of henry ford and his notions of the assembly line his anti-semitism. he was a brilliant businessman but he had th

imaging barry gordy. can you tell us about that? what did you learn?is 83 or probably 84 by now. he was 33 when the book is at its heart in 1963. what i learned sort of essentially synonymous with motown. it was his idea. he created, brought the artists here and i learned two important things about motown that he helped me shape, but go beyond him. one is taking from this incredible family with four older sisters really don't get as much credit as they really deserve. and who were part of motown and we were much more organized. he was the creative force but the creative force put in a book i could give you more credit to his older sisters. and to his parents are there's a family like so many african-american families, came up from the south to detroit and they were part of, the booker t. washington sensibility of self-help. they formed a grocery store first and then all these other little enterprises. so he came out of sort of the small arch when ownership concept. he started motown with -- argued ownership concept. very senior, his mother and them had

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barry gordy received the honor last year. >> and still to come on "action news" tonight a controversial in the washington area by one vote. we'll tell you how our local senators voted. because the grinch that stole christmas, at least some delivery boxes with a child in tow. >>> the government wants to widen the airbag recall even more. >>> the wind chill makes it feel like 11. how cold it will be for your morning commute and how we climb out of the freeze in your accu-weather. >>> we are joined by ali gorman. >>> it promises to tighten sagging chin. they call it a knife-less necklift. >>> and ducis rodgers hears from the eagles after practice today when "action news" comes right back. floo it's on? oh yeah. with who? the citizens banker lady. she made things way simple for me, like how to deposit a check from my phone. she's even gonna send me alerts if my balance gets too low. total special treatment. you do know the alerts don't come from her personally, right don juan? mr.tobin, you forgot your phone! thank you. you left that there on purpose, didn't you? yeah. wow. award winning mo

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. >> well, in a statement, motown founder barry gordy called him wonderful human being, touched manymusic. seventy-eight years old. now, his brother, lead singer temptations like you mentioned. i think he died when he was 50. and how about this? mike nichols has died. >> many know him for directing the film the graduate, you know, back in 1967. the german bonn director also nominated at the academy awards for his work on working girls, and who is afraid of virginia wolf. one of only 12 stars to win all four major us entertainment awards. he had an emmy, grammy, oscar, and a tony, nicole was 83 years old. >>> of course his wife, diane soar saw err. >> oh, boy. >> bad news. >> still ahead, parent, you might want to check out a new list before you do your holiday shopping. bottle rocket party, is that something that you need to buy for your kids? no. this is a list of do not buy's, for the holiday. >> but first, "black friday" is coming. is your phone prepared? welshing we will tell you the app you need to have on your phone right now to help you save big. ♪ there it is... this is where

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