dr. abernathy were side by side with the king from day one. dr. e president of the montgomery movement and your house and church was actually bombed the night they formed the southern christian leadership conference. >> that's right. >> you lived under daily threat. i don't think people understand the price that was paid to get us to where we are today. give us a sense of how it was to be the co-pilot of this great movement. >> well, one of the things is that we had death threats every day for five consecutive years. there was a woman hired by the white citizens council, or the koo klux klan. we thought it was the white citizens council. she came on duty at 7:00 a.m. in the morning and worked until 7:00 p.m. in the evening and a man came on duty at 7:00. they called us everything with death threats, we're going to blow your so-and-so head off and your little children and it was constant. rosa parks and my house. we got the calls. and when she finished cursing and calling us all kinds of names, she said, now i've got to call rosa. >> reverend, throu

dr. abernathy and dr. king and mrs. king and your families had to personally go through to make it possible for us to walk through these doors. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. .- for the opportunity first of all, we have to understand where we have come from in order to understand where we are. [applause] there are so many of our young and even-- adults older people who have no idea of how we arrived where we are today. our young people cannot be told because the parents don't know. [applause] it is notrents -- taught in our schools. the parents are not getting it, reverend, i'm, sorry, i have to say this -- [applause] but the church, the black church has always been the backbone of the black immunity. -- community. if it does not speak out against the ills in our society, where will it come from yucca -- from? we had the church in the movement. had it not and for the ministers of the black church, there would not have been a civil rights movement. [applause] , large extent, that is one of the basic missing elements in

dr. king and reverend abernathy and apologized for what happened.applause] >> there are so many of these stories. terrific stories. what kept you two going? how do you sustain -- but noted they do? detect a little bit about that just a minute ago. >> what motivated me is his word, troublemaker. i've heard the word from what i was knee-high to grasshopper. i was a troublemaker. troublemaker because you wrote in to see people who didn't have food. the congressmen, the troublemaker. i sat back and let the disparate troublemaker from every good, every angle i could look at it. after a while it became a division of people. i saw a skinny guy and in the company and can't be paired with all the dust settle, gandhi was called a troublemaker. come across the pond is a guy down there in georgia by the name of martin. other good deeds he did in his life in the dust has settled company called mark and a troublemaker. i can go to harriet tubman, underground railroad. i said back then i go back to south africa and think about a guy incarcerated for 28 years and t

dr. king's death, um, that the poor people's campaign, it would have made sense if it was canceled. justing this is to explain who's here, obviously, coretta scott king, ralph abernathy in the middle, here's a very young harry belafonte. bayard rustin there who organized the march on washington in '63. so this is at the memorial march for dr. king. but, so the conventional wisdom said that the campaign should be canceled. who else can lead this? who else can do this but dr. can king? and in the aftermath of the violence and the mourning that this prompted, we shouldn't do this. but ralph abernathy, as i pointed out, king's successor said, no, we're going to go on, we're going to move on. and the support for the campaign actually exploded. and i think this is, you know, maybe one of these irony is the that a lot of people who were critical of the campaign initially and had said i'm going to sit this out, i don't agree with what they're doing or the strategy they're doing, or they think it wasn't actually going to you can seed, changed their minds. so black panthers who had scoffed at nonviolent strategy as quaint and outmoded said i'm going to go as one of the panther

abernathy. newly restored video. this shows james earl ray's return to memphis to face trial for dr. king's assassination.rrested june 8th at london's heathrow airport as he tried to board a flight to brussels. here ray is being red read his rights on the plane to memphis. >>> president obama's just about an hour away from landing in colorado where he will push congress to pass federal gun control laws. the president will meet with officials close to the site of the aurora movie theater massacre. next week, the president will make that same case in connecticut just an hour away from newtown. meantime, here in new york city, gun control from the cities to the suburbs is the topic of the national action network's annual conference in new york. richard lui is there. you spoke with a number of people personally affected by gun violence? >> reporter: yeah, we just finished listening to the immigration reform panel. but the first panel of the day was on that what you just talked about, gun violence. and i had the opportunity to speak with three parents who shared on the panel the loss of their children. one per