harry belafonte is one of the most dignified, well-educated, lucid, focused, eloquent men i have ever met in my life and has a sense of humanity to him and a sense of-- of what really matters. i wish i could run him for president. he wouldn't take the job. but he's a truly wonderful human being, and he was certainly one of the most astounding interviews. the man is a walking history book. you know, he was walking next to martin luther king at all of those things. it was him. he was there. he was the guy next to him, and he told us stuff that you won't believe. if the six bullet story doesn't make your hair stand on end and make you want to cry, i didn't-- now you have to tell it. you do need to tell it. do you? okay, i'll tell it. in the harry belafonte interview, he said, "i went--" in this wonderful, whispery voice, "i went to an event with dr. king, "and when i arrived there, there was a large man, "a sheriff, who looked at me with hatred, "with real anger in his eyes. "and i couldn't help but notice him, "but i ignored him, and i went on to do what we came to do. "dr. king spoke.

and so roger moore and liv ullman and harry belafonte and many, many artists are unicef representativesntative, i've traveled to vietnam and to bosnia, croatia, macedonia. it's--it's one challenge after another. does that--does that journey leave you with the sense that--that we can fix the world's problems? or is it just a succession of challenges that we--we can never seem to clear the slate? there's always something, something somewhere that judy collins needs to address. well, there's something somewhere always that all of us have to address, and i think that's probably at the root of our-- of our efforts. and there always will be, because that's what life is, is a series of evolving joys and evolving challenges. and to be a part of one's culture and to be involved, i think many, many, many, many, many people-- millions of people are involved in-- in the process of saving the rainforest, of raising money for-- in this recent tragedy. the outpouring of--of giving to the families of the firemen, the rescue workers, the families of those who--who have lost so many people. the work of o

and that would be everything from harry belafonte live at carnegie hall to machito and his afro cubans to tito puente, jibaro music from the folk traditions in puerto rico to, you know, jazz, brazilian music. i remember when he played something by sergio mendes and brazil '66, mas que nada. i go, "hey, pop, that sounds like spanish, but it isn't." and he said, "no, because it's portuguese." you know, that's what they speak in brazil. so he's giving me a little social studies lesson at the same time. >> hinojosa: so you said another word that i bet some people stopped for a second. you said jibaro music. so what is jibaro music? >> jibaro music is the music of the countryside, the mountain people from the island of puerto rico, the obreros, the workers, the farmers, et cetera. >> hinojosa: and what would, like, jibaro music sound like? >> well, it's very guitar oriented, very string oriented. we have a mandolin type of instrument in puerto rico known as the cuatro that has ten strings. and, of course, anybody that knows spanish, it's ten double string so people would go, "well, how come

king but andrew young and abernathy and harry belafonte in new york. >> rose: but he is the person that made sure non-violence taught began di was the operative tactic of civil rights. >> and he was mature beyond his years, charlie. what we tend to forget is how this movement grew out of the church and how it grew out of that very strong baptist church culture that existed in the south and the strength of the black middle-class family, if you will, or in the poor families as well who went to the church and they responded to what they were hearing there and he used the pulpit of the church to spread the word not just about the gospel, but about the need for negroes-- as they were called then-- to take a stand on behalf of their rights. >> rose: where was he moving at the time of his death? he was in memphis to give his name and support... >> he was struggling at the time of his death. you know, it was 1968, the movement started in the late 1950s. by 19678 this country was in considerable turmoil because of the war and the counterculture within the civil rights movement itself. there had

i remembered the first time i've heard harry belafonte singing "where is my friend abraham."now that? there were not many words. the first time i heard it, i thought, where is my friend john? then the next time i heard him sing it, where is my friend abraham, where is my friend john, where is my friend martin? the last time i heard him sing it, he added, where is my friend robert? when i first ran for public office, there was a reporter doing a feature and he was interviewing me, and said, how lucky you were to have worked with john and robert kennedy and martin luther king, and i said, some luck. the three that meant the most to me in my life were all three killed in one decade. just the pain that one feels when you think, what could have happened if robert and martin had lived? one as president, perhaps, and one as a prophet of the progress in america, what could have been. of course, we were lucky. we only had abraham lincoln for five years really. we had martin for 12 years on the stage of america and the world. we had robert and his amazing journey. we were lucky. we are

when donal leace was giving the song and music, i remember the first time i heard harry belafonte. him sing the leading of that? where is my friend, abraham? i will not give all the words. the next time -- the first time i heard it, it was, where is my friend, john? the next time i heard him sing it, it was, where is my friend, abraham? where is my friend, john? where is my friend, martin? the last time i heard him sing it, it was, my friend, robert. when i first ran for public office, it was a reporter doing a feature. after interviewing me, he said, how lucky you were to have worked directly with john and robert kennedy and martin luther king. i said, the three that meant the most to me in my life were all three killed in one decade. less than a decade. just the pain that one feels when you think what could have if robert and martin had lived, one as president and one as a great profit of progress in america, what might have been done and all the lost opportunities. no sooner had i said that, i said, find out where she is, i do not want to be quoted on that. of course we were luc