dr. jones we are grateful for your contribution to the civil rights movement as not only the attorney, the advisor, and the speechwriter, but your words have been inspiring not only to all of us but to me personally. it inspires me to do more. it creates conditions under which i do not sit every time we come was something we say what's next because the dream has not been fulfilled for so many people. so, your words continue to inspire me and inspire us. you make the changes that we want to be and we march ahead and we will not turn back until everybody is taken care of. so it is with great pleasure that i celebrate you, dr. jones, and present you with an award on behalf of the city and county of san francisco in honor of the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. please, dr. jones step forward. >> [applause] >> dr. jones, on behalf of the city please accept this award of recognition for all your words that live on today and will love on forever with us. >> [applause] >> [music] >>

please, dr. jones step forward. >> [applause] >> dr. jones, on behalf of the city please accept this award of recognition for all your words that live on today and will love on forever with us. >> [applause] >> [music] >> >> please call the role. >> commissioner afoul? >> here. >> commissioner low? >> here. >> commissioner errata? >> here. >> commissioner [speaker not understood]? >> [speaker not understood]? >> here. >> commissioner mc donald? >> here. >> commissioner levitt son has an excused absence. real quick, as a reminder if you have any electronic sounding devices, please turn those off so they do not go off during the meet ing. we would also ask that you please take any secondary conversations outside in order to have the meeting proceed as efficiently as possible. if you would like to speak on an item today, we have some blue cards over on the table. if you could please fill those out. and then if you would like to speak on general public comment, which would be an item not on the agenda but that falls within the jurisdiction o

dr. clarence jones is here tonight, but also many other leaders reflected in our city administrator naomi kelly. in our san francisco commissioners including joe marshall, michelle davis, and susan christian from her human rights commission. who you later here this evening, and also of course, again, don to zia and jennifer to peter for their great work. one of the highlights i have in my own personal history is that moment where i was serving as the director of the human rights commission, and i went to mayor willie brown at the time. it again i indicated to him that, yes, i've had many years of advocacy on behalf of people but i really wanted to do something more direct. so he asked me what was that. i want to get into the real business

. >> dr. jonesas asked to deliver the news. >> a secret service member identified himself and said i need to call j edgar who haver and tell him the condition of the president. right behind him was the secret service. he said i need to call joseph kennedy and tell him the condition of his son. right there, i realized that joseph kennedy was going to get bad news, the whole world was going to find out kennedy was dead. >> in that moment, jones faced a dilemma. jacqueline kennedy asked the doctors to delay the press announcement until after her husband received his last rites. >> i told them he was not doing well, but knew he was dead. >> moments later, a priest arrived. >> he said if you live close to the president's left ear, and i couldn't hear him say anything else. >> after that, mrs. kennedy entered the room. he witnessed her farewell to her husband. >> she stood there, very self-contained, stood there for a moment and exchanged the ring from her finger to the president's finger and a ring from

dr. clarence jones and reliving those years, 50 years ago we still marvel what we were doing 50 years ago ourselves. trying to give and i know he'll be up here in a minute explaining perhaps some key moments that we should all try to understand. because as intravenous said joe said earlier as well, the struggle continues. it is with us. we look back, who could have imagined it years ago that we would have had today a first african-american president of the united states. >> [applause] >> who could've 50 years ago have imagined we would have the first african-american mayor of san francisco in mayor brown. who could have imagined % >> [applause] >> who could have have imagined we would have the first chinese american mayor in san francisco? >> [applause] >> these events of course, just do not happen by themselves. he digs great sacrifice. ultimately, it takes american heroes to allow those situations to exist. it also highlights the great leaders right here in san francisco who continue to improve the quality of life for all of our residents. celebrating diversity and equality for all and

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. >> reporter: dr. jones was asked to deliver the news. >> the secret service said i need to call j edgar hoover and tell him the condition of the president. right behind him was the secret service who said i need to call joseph kennedy and tell him the condition of his son. i realized that joseph kennedy was going to get bad news and the whole world would find out that kennedy was dead. >> but jacqueline kennedy asked doctors to delay the death pronouncement until after her husband received his last rites. >> i told her he was not doing well, but i knew he was dead. >> he said if thou livest, he went down to the president's right here and i couldn't hear anything after that. >> after that mrs. kennedy entered the room. >> she was very self contained. she stood there for a moment and exchanged a ring from her finger to the president's finger, and a ring from his finger to her finger. she leaned over and kissed his right foot, and walked out of trauma room one. >> reporter: less than 48 hours later both doctor

this week author and civil rights activists clarence jones discusses his new book, "behind the dream." in that the former adviser and speechwriter for dr. martin luther king, jr. examines the creation of the "i have a dream" speech. the stanford stanford university scholar in residence also discusses his relationship with the civil rights leader and several of his fellow advisers. he speaks with herb boyd. >> host: clarence jones i am blessed and astonisheastonished to be with you because over the years all of my books have been trying to catch up with you to get a few quotes in a better understanding of dr. king's life. he spent a solid eight years with him. i know for five books out there david garo's buck taylor branch they mentioned you and they cite you. i said i need to catch up with him because i need to get that same information. i was never successful but someone else was trying to catch up with you and that was docked or king.

dr. martyn lloyd-jones. he preached at westminister in london. i remember one time i was kind of sad, feeling down because i read some things. you know, you should never read, you know, blogs and e-mails. today they don't throw stones, they write poison e-mails. so i made a mistake, i read something like that. i was so discouraged. you see, my heart is gentle. i can be hurt. so i was browsing through a book shop, christian book shop, just absentmindedly, feeling a bit discouraged. that was years ago. and then i saw a series of books by--a series on the book of romans by martyn lloyd-jones. now i was preaching grace already. so i absentmindedly, i just took one at random and i opened the page and my eyes fell on this passage written by dr. martyn lloyd-jones the theologian. he says, "why is that it today no one is accusing us of preaching 'sin more that grace may abound'? they leveled their accusation against paul, but why is it that no one is accusing us today of the same things they accused the apostle paul?" then dr. martyn says, "because we ar

dr. janice orlowski, she jones us now, she is the chief medical officer at the hospital.an you tell us the three survivors you currently have. how are they doing? >> sure. i'd be happy to, anderson. our d.c. police officer is out of surgery right now. -se stable. i have actually seen him. he's alert. he is talkative. he is doing very well. we have another gunshot victim who is actually in surgery. we expect her out of surgery very shortly. the third victim that we received here at medstar washington hospital center did not need surgery and she's in our hospital right now. she's recovering from a bullet wound that she has to her hand and to her head. >> the 24 hour-year-old young woman, i understand that she called her dad after she was shot and he fought tooth and nail to get to her. >> that's what she told us as well. she was the third victim that we received at the hospital center's trauma unit and she was at the hospital center maybe for about ten minutes or so and her father came walking in and as usual, the case we walk up to the family, you know, we try to grab them

jones dr. king enjoyed so much his visit with you and mr. jones but he forgot, he forgot to tell you that he wanted youtube, as his guest. he is preaching in los angeles on sunday. i listened and so i took down the information. the phone was on the wall in the kitchen and my wife is standing there and i turned to her and i told her what was said and she turned to me again early in the morning, 9:30 in the morning california time. she said you may not be going to montgomery that you are going to the church. i said the invitation is for both of us. she said no, you go. so i go to the church. it's in baldwin hills in 1960. the ball then hills i assume you know baldwin hills is in california, southern california the community before successful blacks could move to brentwood bel-air. this is where the artist the businessman and the lawyers and doctors, where anybody lived if you have any money. reverend h.b. charles -- my memory was a minimum of 1500 maybe more but i think it was 1500 in the church. dr. king is introduced and then he gets up and h

dr. strangelove." we had tons of good answers. we had "indiana jonespreciate that, but "the matrix" and "aliens" was the top two choices. that's it for "way too early." "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ >> i say if obama really wanted to sell us syria, he should have taken a page from the people's selling us siri. because pushing the iphone and a war are a lot alike. you just say that the new one i. say the new one is smaller, faster and cheaper people will buy one. even though they got one and still paying off the previous model. >>> all right. welcome to "morning joe." look at that beautiful shot of new york city. good morning, everyone. it's thursday, september 12. with us on set we have msnbc contributor mike barnacle. where have you been all my life? >> rehab. >> we have the president, at least he's honor northeast, president on foreign relations, richard haas. good to see you. and in washington, senior political editor for the "huffington post." so willie, i think we'll

dr. hoffman does the conversation change at all when you switch social media use to work? vanity and keeping up with the jonesand your friends, what about these people that are obsessed because it really has become a part of all of our jobs, not just us who do social media shows? it's harder to get away from. there's a justification that it's part of my work, i hear that a lot. does that change how you deal with these folks, 0 you would treat -- how you would treat these folks? phyllomean poeweder opposition leader we're following. that's all i have an real money. victoria azarenko ç] >> actually really hate social media. i had to sign up for a social media site and talked to people to get them to be my friends on that site so i could avoid them. >> so you're looking at video scott garner shawt using what he calls antisocial media. safe zone that allows you to avoid coming in contact with your friends, based on where they check in with social media. david, one extreme or the other. how do you strike a balance? >> by being thoughtful. one of the things i talk about in a book, if you are having a moment where y

dr. hoffman does the conversation change at all when you switch social media use to work? vanity and keeping up with the jonesand your friends, what about these people that are obsessed because it really has become a part of all of our jobs, not just us who do social media shows? it's harder to get away from. there's a justification that it's part of my work, i hear that a lot. does that change how you deal with these folks, 0 you would treat -- how you would treat these folks? >> just to reiterate this last point, i think you know i treat a lot of people with social anxiety disorder, and one mead step or transitional step towards getting into a real or -- real world is connecting with a virtually world. so -- virtual world. so connecting with facebook or twitter can be used as a bridge. and i think the same is true for work relationships. i think there is flog that can -- you cannot establish good working relationships just through online contact, but suddenly there's flirchgd now that has -- linked in now that has become part of the -- of the regular system, how people communicate in the workplace and how p

jones. >> wendy: welcome back, everyone. it's time for a special edition of ask wendy and dr.phil. >> yeah, we've got it covered. >> how can we help? how you doin'? >> my name is lisa. this is my husband, larry. >> wendy: hi, larry. >> we've known each other for many years, married 19 years, known each other since junior high school. we'verecently opened a new business, an all-natural salad dressing product, and we are hoping that the marriage and the business will work together. so he thinks he's the boss, and i want to make sure that both the marriage and the business is very successful. how do we do that? what advice do you have for us? >> wendy: larry, dr. phil will talk to you first. >> so he thinks he's the boss. >> well, he -- >> you're delusional. >> she's bossier. >> seriously, here's the big deal. you've got to have a clear boundary between home and work, and you may be designated as the boss at work. you may be designated as somebody who has to be in charge. you maight do that. but when you go home, you ain't the boss. you ain't even almost the boss. and do you want

. >> host: clarence jones i feel so absolutely blessed to be here with you because search team to try to catch up with you to get a better understanding of dr. king's life you spend a solid eight years with him and went with taylor branch's david j. new and site you i felt i want to catch up with him i was never successful but it someone else try to catch up with you at that time was dr. king. there is a very refitting section to talk about the first encounter you had the opportunity. >> guest: just quickly i am delighted to be here and have this opportunity to talk to agree to have mutual friends in common by your question brings me back at february, 1960, a 20 years old, i was just seven months out of law school i get a call from the judges and law period the eric city he had known me and had written a letter of recommendation and he called me and said ibm the chief defense counsel to defend this dr. king from montgomery alabama that has been indicted on perjury on this date income-tax richard we had others so he talked to me about the case if he said we'd need a law clerk that will do the research. today, a law clerk if you look for a ju

dr. sharon malone is a native owned mobile, and is a sister of a foot soldier of the civil rights movement, vivian malone jonessly walked past torch wallaceto in -- george to integrate the university of alabama. let me just say, when you see that we still have fraternities and so were days that choose to block because of race in our nation and our state, we have to say there is work to be done. millennial's, we have to whereere will you stand, will you stand when in justice and in equity arises? let us hope that we all have security, like attorney general holder, to uphold this nation's constitution and fight for what is right. i present to you all the 82nd attorney general of these united states of america, attorney general eric holder. [applause] >> i am not sure if i ever heard an introduction like that. i think it was supposed to be an introduction, not a speech. thank you for those kind words. and thank you for welcoming me active birmingham this afternoon and bringing together so many civil rights pioneers and passionate citizens for today's very important observers. i look at this front row and i see be