accept that a nobody from nowhere could take down lincoln or kennedy or robert kennedy or martin luther king. the universe doesn't seem to be in proper order because of kennedy or king can't be protected what chance do we have in our own lives to protect ourselves? it is disturbing to think the great cannot always protect themselves that is one of the reasons we want to believe in predictability that makes us feel safer the universe has order but it really doesn't. i make it absolutely clear he was and what he did and when you get to the end of the book you will know what i think of martin luther king and the real hero of the story and the hero for the future it is still doctor king live or dead. >>host: why do you think that james earl ray held out to the very end and did not really tell his story? why didn't he say this is what i did? this is why, he has had 30 years but he denies that to the end and even brought in to members of the king that believe his story. this was his chance and he didn't take it. >> i don't know. he was serving life in prison. no hope of escape later years were fil

nation's reaction to the death of martin luther king junior on april 4, 1968. welcome everyone and thank you >> welcome. thanks for coming out o tonight i am the manager here and we are delighted to have you with us the and the author of the death and legacy of mlk junior. he received his phd in history from uc berkeley and the recipient from harvard and pan and cornell. associate prof. of history in the university of new hampshire and authored two other h books on the solo rights movement.ov he details in clarity how the king assassination in the urban uprising in ch sent shockwaves across the landscape of the racial crisis. and in the not-too-distant with the recognition of his relevance so please join me to welcome him to water street bookstore. [applause] >> thank you for that introduction and everybody for coming to this inaugural reading of my third book. i might be tied to the notes a little more than i would like but it is exciting as we study history. [laughter] most books on mlk and were his life ended which is on the alchemy of the lorraine motel in

. >> do they know about martin luther king? >> that is the night that robert kennedy gave what is one of the more remarkable speeches any politician has ever given. >> ladies and gentlemen, i have some very sad news for all of you and i think for all of our fellow citizens and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that martin luther king was shot was killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. >> tennessee was on fire. >> washington, chicago, detroit, boston, new york, these are just a few of the cities in which the negro anguish expressed itself in violent destruction. ♪ ♪

go back and look at it because they played the clip of him saying we have martin luther king on the show but if you watch the interview it was a panel of white journalists basically trying to discredit or undermine him or portray him as a crazed extremist. >> i think that this is another one of the aspects of a myth. the media in our imagination of the movement is a slice of it and civil rights leaders like john lewis gave you a lot of credit. they say that it would have been without the media's role in the southern struggle but i think that's kind of blinded us to all the other ways that the media portrayed the movement both in the south and long before 1955 and the ways that the media is covering the struggle an struggn backyard versus topics covering princeton's birmingham by 1963. so one of the things i talk about in the book and since it seems that we should talk a little about new york tonight and after a brown v. board of education, black activists, fight allies sort of see this as a challenge for new york city but on the other hand they love the decision but don't necessaril

he announced that martin luther king junior have been killed. and that is where the concert goes gasped and moaned. i was told my students. long live the king. on the opposite side of the country james baldwin sat by a palm springs swimming pool with the actor. it took a while before the sound of his voice. something in his voice. i got through to me. at first baldwin felt you numb. and then an unbelievable wonder overtook him. he went briefly and finally succumb to the shock in helpless rage. for years it would remain a blur. he wrote it is retired into some deep cavern in my mind. in blacksburg virginia. they had packed in auditorium to watch the longtime segregation of south carolina debate the literal s. he was a liberal and a jewish-american who lived in north carolina and had found it this newspaper of political satire. he was debating strong women on the night of martin luther king's death. and this was in blacksburg virginia. virginia tech deed interrupted that debate. although the student body was almost all white they have just integrat

martin luther king jr.ness of all men that we must unite in compassion in order to survive. >> the best picture nominees that year were genuinely controversial and influential. movies like "bonnie and clyde," "the graduate," "guess who's coming to dinner," "in the heat of the night," both trying to address racism and race relations. >> virgil, that's a funny name. for a nique -- negro man. i heard you come from philadelphia. what did they call you up there? >> they called me mr. tibbs. >> "in the heat of the night," sidney poitier was playing a black man who was strong, who was smart, who was decisive. the movie takes place in the deep south. >> let me understand this. you two came here to question me? >> we were just trying to clarify some of the evidence. was mr. colbert ever in this greenhouse, say last night about midnight? >> this is 1968. you don't have black men hitting white men in movies and getting away with it and living to tell the tale, anyways, and he does. >> there was a time when i could hav

so what are we to make of it how should we sum up martin luther king's life? there is lots he could say about that. i'm sure you have your ideas about how to do that. when i worked on my book i was intrigued especially by what you might call his personal odyssey. he wasn't always destined in his mind. he was a civil rights advocate not in the way he would dedicate his life to it. he was leaving boston and finish his ph.d. studies at austin university and a at that time he would need a preacher. he thought he might be a theologian and some ivy tower somewhere but it was not something he envisioned doing as a national figure a champion on the national stage of the civil rights movement. you probably know the story of what happened in my amar'e. there was a bus boycott -- ed buss boycotted he was catapulted to the national spotlight. one event led to another and one campaign led to another. his commitment deepened and deepened and deepened so by 1968 he saw himself in different terms and it redefined who he was and his vision. the time in 1968 he was speaking out

martin luther king jr.f all men that we must unite in compassion in order to survive. >> the best picture nominee that year were genuine ly controversial and influential. movies like bonnie and clyde, the graduate, guess who's coming to dinner, in the heat of the night, trying to address racism. >> that what did they call you there? >> they called me mr. tibbs. >> in the heat of the night sydney poitier played a black man who was strong, smart, decisive. the movie takes place in the deep south. >> let me understand this. you two came here to question me? >> we were just trying to clarify some of the evidence. was mr. colbert ever in this greenhouse, say last night about midnight? >> this is 1968. you don't have black men hitting white men in movies and getting away with it and living to tell the tale, anyways and he does. >> there was a time when i could have had you shot. >> sydney pottier completely holds his own not just as an actor but the character virgil tibbs. at its core, it's a murder/mystery, but

he will be discussing his latest book to the promised land martin luther king and the fight for economic justice. in his book he explores the often less remembered mission of doctor king and his commitment to resisting all types of oppression including economic injustice. in addition to his message of racial and quality, doctor king advocated for union rights,on te poor and turn away from self-seeking individualism. he currently holds the professorship of humanities at the university of washington tacoma where he teaches african-american and labor history as well as martin luther king studies. his work has received numerous awards including the robert f. kennedy award for his book going down jericho road. tonight he will discuss his book for about 35 minutes and then will be joined by rodney strong will say a few words and then open up the floor to questions. because we are being filmed it is important iff your questions be asked at the two microphones. and now i'm going to q introduce rodney, the chairman of griffin and strong demand as the disparity study and suppliers diversity from c

and martin luther king's daughter, bernice king has responded strongly on twitter.—opted my father's name. bannon‘s assertion that my father would be proud of donald trump wholly ignores daddy's commitment to people of all races and nationalities, being treated with dignity and respect. bernice king there speaking. reacting strongly on twitter. let's go back to anthony who is monitoring all of this for us. again, obviously there is upset there bernice king. how can steve bannon get it so wrong? i think you have heard that claim from donald trump before about lack unemployment during the in history and mind you, and it's only been measured for about 50 or 60 yea rs, been measured for about 50 or 60 years, and it was trending downward throughout much of barack obama's presidency. the trajectory of black unemployment was dropping for years now before donald trump became president. reached its lowest point and has taped up a little bit. steve bannon was hanging his hat purely on the unemployment number would obviously bernice king was referencing his other rhetoric and

many accolades and awards you forsee for your career you one of the disappearance of the martin luther king jr peace prize not in the fiftieth anniversary of his death as a has a special resonance for you i think of the triplets that he talked about of the triple ill of poverty and racism in militarism so we have not progressed all that much in the last fifty years in a way that when luther king would have wanted so to be a recipient of this prize i don't feel that i have done nearly enough to make his dream a little closer to reality and why isn't the agree rallying figure of of radical american like martin luther king was in the in the one nine hundred sixty s. world figure a managing to. lead an army that's waiting to be led. i think bernie sanders did it during his campaign i was actually shocked i was one of the people as part of a group called progressive democrats of america i'm a green and a progressive democrat that pushed for bernie sanders to run i thought he would do sort of the way that ralph nader had done in his presidential runs maybe two to three percent if he did really we

so what are we to make and how should we sum up martin luther king's life? there's lots and lots you can say about that. about how to do that, as i worked on my book i was intrigued especially by what you might call his personal odyssey. he wasn't always destined in his mind at least not in not in a e would dedicate his life to when he finished his phd studies at boston university and what he saw himself at the time he would be a preacher. he would be in some ivory tower somewhere, but it wasn't something that he envisioned doing becoming a national figure, champion on the national stage of the civil rights movement. you probably know the story about what happened in montgomery. the bus boycott and he was sent to the national spotlight. one event led to another, one campaign led to another. his commitment t deep end and te pencil by 1968, he saw himself in different times he has redefined who he was in his vision and at the time in 1968, he was speaking out passionately against the vietnam war and he was advocating what many people would consider to be a rad

martin luther king, jr. room was chosen because it was the most insular room in the house, and those phone calls sometimes lasted for hours. so that is the actual phone in which dr. king would receive the presidents phone calls that came into this house. things were very volatile. the country was aware of how volatile things were in selma, and in the south. the dr. king and the president kept, i don't want to say regular calls, but they did have a direct connection on a semi-frequent basis to discuss what was going on, what would repair the country, and exactly what both men needed to keep this country on track and to keep violence down. >> then we've got to come up with the qualifications of voters. that will answer 70% of your problems. >> that's right. >> if you just clear it out everywhere and make it a and reason right. no tests on what chaucer said or memorizing anything else. then you have to put them in a e post office can let the postmaster, let the federal employee that i control >> the dining room

malcolm x made martin luther king look good. and that is why the power structure made concessions to him. they were not moved by, oh, there's terrible injustice in the country, but there is disorder and there is disorder and there's a crisis and we need to do something about it. the army of history is that, despite the civil rights movement, the city still burned in 1967 anyway. because the civil rights act of 1964 was too little, too late, -- is what we would have done in 1945. mexico, it is of very important that the 1968 or the post-1968 student massacre and the state crime that was developed a culture of human rights in mexico and the violation of human rights. i would say that is one of the most important aspects of these fights through nonviolent strategies and tactics. what i mentioned before, the mother activism we have in latin america, it happened in mexico. it happened in argentina. it happened in other regions of central mark of -- central america, like el salvador. but instead -- but in el guerrila you have revoluti

martin luther king was ready to endorse kennedy in 1968.ad marshalled their forces today, they would have been a formidable force. >> it's said "you catch toured the mute al admiration, the cautious one that existed between these two men and you write kennedy authorized intense surveillance of king. he was followed, informants were planted in his inner circle. why did he do that? >> because king represented a peril to the kennedy administration. king had associated with people who had been communists and leftists earlier in their careers and j. edgar hoover was carrying around information that was incriminating about king and yet king and the kennedys were sort of merged in the public mind, much of white america thought that they were working in cahoots. and so king could effectively have sort of derailed the rest of the kennedy's programs. so the kennedys had to be very, very careful about them, about martin luther king, and if there were allegations that martin luther king was hanging around with communists, the kennedys had to do their b

martin luther king jr.hat has been the reaction so far about what you have heard about meghan markle's personal touches? >> i spoke to someone who was with her the night before the wedding. i asked about the feminism side. i asked is it a message? she said no. she's doing it the way she wants to do it. to do things your own way, express your own character is incredibly hard do especially for a foreigner who doesn't understand the system. perhaps it worked in her fay var. i have to say, the royal family allowed her to be herself which of course they didn't do with diana to disasterous effect. it. >> was refreshing once you realize this ceremony is different. it's you nuke. it's about meghan and harry. >> and all inclusive. >> thanks. >>> excellent kcoverage. let's continue with richard. >> long day yesterday. >> indeed. it was extraordinary. this was a ceremony with global reach on social media. there's never been anything bigger. we had our first american princess. she was able to choose so much as harry wa

, my boy tremayne tweeted, you know, a picture of me and virgil, and he said, malcolm x, martin luther king and all these people got mad. like, how can you compare them to that? man, i know this is gonna cause an uproar, but certain icons is just too far in the past and not relatable. >> wow. >> it's stunning, right? it's stunning on so many levels. first of all, again this idea why we're still talking about slavery and a right-wing, alt-right talking point, this idea of black on black crime,

very similar to martin luther king focussing on the poor and working people. >> in the aftermath of drtion, it's scott king to make the notation change was needed now. >> my husband always said if anything happened to him, to carry on his work for his people. >> she was always an activist. before martin was an activist and she continued to be outspoken in order to make the point that you can kill my husband but this movement is going to go on. >> cnn's anna cabrera sat down with three special guests to learn more about tonight's episode. >> let me start with you, with all of the upheaval we talk about in today's politics, american culture. we think about 1968 and really, it's no comparison, is it? >> no, i mean, we live in anxious times now but 1968 was a time of upheaval, just remember some of the horrific events of the time. dr. martin luther king junior is assassinat assassinated. robert kennedy is assassinated. the country is divided and against a war in far off vietnam. the democratic party is imploding. there is a sense of tension and there is a violence in the streets and unrest

hope in the deeper sense of martin luther king jr.lues says never be optimistic, never be pessimistic. to be full of hope is to be in action in movement. intellectually, in motion, spiritually. so i am in no way, my brother, optimistic. i have never been an optimist. never been a moment in human history where we have grounds for optimist. no, hope is about creating the n new evidence. and therefore not conforming to the idols but rather being nonconformist in light of a love of justice, a tenderness, a sweetness and then you go to meet your maker with a smile. >> and action, that is where you put the focus. >> just a courageous vision, courageous action, courageous grin, courageous touch. action takes a number of different forms. it is not just hitting the streets and going to jail. some of us can do that. some of us must have a willingness to die. you can think, you can be a poet. kendrick lamar is an activist and a poet and that is a form of action. yourself as high quality journalist, that is a form of action. you don't need to hit

he is obsessed with martin luther king. but it's much broader than him. if you look at the memo where they decide to wiretap and bug king which is right after the march on washington because that is what it really scares them. this is not a renegade operation. but the other thing that i think is important to see is that the way that they also do not concern themselves with violence against civil rights activists. they are monitoring and targeting but they're also standing aside when real violence is happening. they notice the memos around there. many leaders houses get bombed. and they are noting that this is happening they note that the local police have no suspects. and then it's just like carry-on. in charlottesville you have this young man who was beaten almost to death and it turns out that the location he was beaten by a white mob. just recently. it was the parking garage of the charlottesville police department. activist caught on video. it happened in the police department. so i think that thinking about both of those in the wholesale surveillance

you don't think martin luther king wouldn't be proud?n the black community five years ago. you don't think martin luther king would sit there and go "yes, you're putting young black men and women to work?" the lowest unemployment we've had in history and wages starting to rise among the working class and you finally stop the illegal alien labour forces coming in and competing with them every day and destroying the schools and destroying the health care? absolutely. do you think getting out of this... look the capitalist and globalists, they want unlimited labour. right? because that's why they can pay 10 bucks an hour and not pay for the schools and not pay for the health care. so when i was sitting there with le pen, i said, "when you have that record and they call you a racist, it means they can't debate the facts. wear that with pride," and i wear with pride and when they call me a racist, i go, "you know why you are you doing that? because you don't want to talk about economic nationalism. you don't want to talk about that it has not

and martin luther king would be in favor of lower tax rates.tax rates and global warming. >> as it relates to justice and fighting injustice. i am assuming, but i am assuming through the legacy of what dr. king stood for, that is the same message we'll using and in the fight for environmental justice. when you have time and time again, you have communities especially in the black belt of alabama that doesn't have adequate sewage and poisoned by coal ash. you think it must be a civil right's issue. people that are affected is people of color. i can understand that. >> tucker: i sort of see what you are saying. poorer people live in crummier place and polluted and there is a bunch of reasons for that. ukraine, chernobyl disaster, there was a lot of poor people. and it is a racial issue and makes them think it is it a conspiracy to pollute because of skin color. >> i agree to a certain extent. but the class point you make. that is why i agree. that is a white area. but the medium income is similar to perry county which is 15000 a year. it is a poi

the spirit of martin luther king. we talked about racism and poverty and militarism. >> muslims and anti jewish racism. our challenge is how do we fortify ourselves to make those who engage in such language and action accountable and responsible and most importantly how do we ensure that we are strong enough to help overcome the various forms of racism? what we don't want to do is fantasize these magical powers or these moments of vicious hatred. we have to decenter it and keep the focus on. people who are fighting, people who are trying to come to terms with what it means to overcome contempt and hatred. i think it was more important than anything else. trump will be trump. he is gangster. he mobilizes and appeals to the base. he is america's cherry pie. which part of america is going to triumph? right now the kings part is very weak and feeble. we are getting stronger. >> i wonder if you were hardened at all by corporate america. black panther brought in african american audiences that disney had not seen before. is

there were protests in the aftermath of the martin luther king assassination.eople who lived through those events, they often remember, as one of the callers mentioned, this rapid chain of events. it seems that one thing would ease and then suddenly a new crisis would develop. elizabeth: the great difference is that we are sitting here and talking about it. i was in china two weeks ago and there, the great famine is described as a time when china was trying to pay russia back for its help to china, so that is world of food went. someone else said, we never saw that picture of a young man standing in front of a tank in tiananmen square, so this is complicated, whether china is a political system or an economic system, you have a system that is so authoritarian that you can't have the protests that we had here, that were traumatic in washington dc in 1968, but we came back from them. and we didn't mow down our people to stop the protests. host: richard joining us from missouri. good morning. caller: good morning. i am 80 years old so i know about the cold war. 19

martin luther king, johnson was seen as a lackey. your thoughts on that? >> well, i think that vietnam did destroy a lot of the establishment because they knew that they weren't winning it and they were still sending people over to vietnam to die in a war that they knew was not going well, and they were dishonest with the american people, and it was a disaster and as i would say and i think people historically could say you weren't going to win that war. if you don't have the people in south vietnam, the government itself didn't want to fight, you can't prop it up from outside and it's so ironic and so sad when you think of how many people died both vietnamese and americans and now we can have good relationships with vietnam and was really, you know, a tragedy. i think michael pointed out lyndon johnson was afraid democrats would be criticized for losing, and yet they're criticized any way, so at least we could have been criticized and not had so many people die and had a quicker reconstruction of vietnam. >> will is joining us from wisconsin. please go ah

if you look at the policies of donald trump, okay, anybody, martin luther king would be proud of him for the black and hispanic community for jobs. >> you think martin luther king would be proud of the president? >> it's the lowest unemployment in history? look at the unemployment we had in the black community five years ago. you don't think martin luther king would sit there and go you're putting young black men and women to work? and wages are starting to rise among the working class and you finally stop the illegal alien labor force coming in and competing with them every day and destroying the school and destroying the health care? absolutely. >> you think he'd be proud? >> oh, my god. and i was having such a good day. let me try to call this thing fair. his numbers are correct but what he doesn't seem to understand is that from 2011 until now there's been a linear straight line down for unemployment for the black community, which means that the process that we're talking about got started under president obama. and to donald trump's credit, he didn't come in and screw it up but

, he went into minneapolis, into the inner city to say martin luther king died and how his brother was killed by a white man and to say we have all suffered and there's pain and during the speech he asked, he said we all have to have love and compassion for those who suffer, whether they be white or black and let us say a prayer for our country and indianapolis was one of the few cities in the country who didn't break out to riots because there was a politician that was able to reach out to people's pain and say i understand where you're coming from and let's look together and you can see number one that if somebody is able to do that, and does do that and has the courage to do that after he was told by the chief of police and the mayor don't go into the inner city, he did it any way, so it makes a difference. so there is actions one can take that can lift people's spirits up and bring peace. that i think is your question. as to who can do it today, i think we have a whole slew of candidates on the democratic side and it's very exciting to see what they'll say and do and we'll learn mo

i started the book with a letter from martin luther king.here he talks about dedicating myself to indy racism. that is 1952. he is still a graduate student. he was in the social gospel tradition of the black church. the people at the bottom. his father was that way. he was one of those poor people. one of the things i do in the book is how people to know that despite the phd. one of the most well-educated people of his generation was a the great grandson of slaves. his father came to the city with nothing. it was through the black church in the black community that they rose up but not in a wealthy way. if you go to the king home in atlanta. it's not like a mansion or anything. around was a neighborhood that was very poor at the time. and king was born in 1929 this is part of the king heritage. after the montgomery bus boycott. he started giving a charge to his audience. i never intend to adjust myself to the tragic inequalities of an economic system which takes this up necessities from the masses. i call upon you to be maladjusted. and he w

but i do remember the kennedy assassination and certainly martin luther king's assassination vaguely because my parents were upset. but in retrospect, i had written extensively about 1968, particular lit invasion of czechoslovakia, how they proceeded it. and it is that combination of things that we have been discussing, the combination of the vietnam war, the unrest in the united states. and the promise of major change in the communist world that was brought to a crushing end. the pueblo incident with the north koreans. but kind of the despair that was there for the end of the year and despite apollo 8 and the upbeat message that it would be. there is a real sense that american society, it was not holding together well. >> elizabeth, your perspective on why 1968 was such a consequential year in american history. >> i think it was a year of moral crisis. all of the things that had been building since 1945, 1947, they started a cold war. and it kind of all comes home. and the cold war was a profound distinction between all of the american history that proceeded it, this idea of taking

t also 1968, i had truck drivers going through whenever martin luther king was assassinated.t was trying times. but the thing about johnson is that everybody don't like him. but everybody over 65 ought to like him because that's when he signed medicare in. i'll let you go then. host: richard, thank you. a real dichotomy by the dough mist mestic policy and the foreign policy. >> i remember the first time i walked into the l.b.j. library. i came as a person -- i remember the vietnam war. i protested against it myself. and so, you know, i had this idea, oh johnson, now how many kids did you kill today as one of our viewers were saying earlier? and the fact was is that once you walk in there and you start to realize everything else that this man did that the barrel he was over in a way when it came to foreign policy, because we forget there were five vietnam president. truman got us really engaged in vietnam. eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, nixon and so this cold war logic, this sense that we had at all costs to maintain this, you know, push back against the spread of communism rea

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if you look at the policies of donald trump, anybody, martin luther king would be proud of him and what community. >> dr. king would be proud of donald trump? >> the lowest unemployment in recorded history? you don't think martin luther king would be proud? look at the unemployment five years ago. >> and how are you today, my friend? >> what do you say to that? >> do you know what i say? we must have the conversation. he must have the conversation with people who disagree profoundly with him and sit in a room and let's figure out a way so no child goes to bed hungry. so the children's defense fund, they don't have to do their work anymore because our children are taken care of. our kids are getting educated in schools. if we would find a way to work together to do this, sa sacrificially. >> i see that you're hedging a little bit. people can read between lines but i see what you're saying. you don't want it to be republican versus democrat. because you think that's our problem. >> that's part of our problem. we're too divided. >> any political aspirations? >> no. all i want to do, i hope

they tried to get martin luther king to kill himself.uple of conversations between george pop do dop louse and this confidential informer. but to call this as the president has worst than watergate is preposterous and it is our job to call it out. >> i agree with you. it is nowhere near watergate. but it is also not nothing. i have no problem with at least inquiring. i think trump overstates it when he says it is worst than watergate, and that is what presidents and presidential campaigns and people who are being investigated do. >> you are normalizing trump's behavior and it is not the same on what other president's do. >> i am criticizing his behavior. i as a civil libertarians has a right to be concerned -- >> jeff, fair to have that public inquiry? >> absolutely not. there is a tradition and a rule within the justice department that they do not disclose the witnesses or investigative techniques about pending investigations. this is an active case and what rod rosenstein has done to try to protect his job in a way to try to protect mu

martin luther king. ♪ when the night has come >> reporter: who lwill ever forget london.emporary choice in a 1,000-year-old chapel. >> it was pretty striking. right away we saw there was a gospel choir. ♪ so arldarling, darling, stand me ♪ they sang "stand by me," which is such a deeply american song. ♪ stand by me ♪ stand by me >> the couple chose their music. they were very hands on about what they wanted to sing and how they wanted it to be sung. ♪ or the mountains should crumble ♪ i was a bit surprised by the choice of "stand by me." i'd never sung it for a wedding before. ♪ >> reporter: and 19-year-old cellist sheku kanneh-mason who was invited personally by meghan to perform. >> what was so special about today was the diversity in the people attending but also the music. we had the gospel choir, which is really the first time something like that has been at a royal wedding. and i think it just meant that the whole event was just special for so many more people. >> we have an american bride. we have oprah winfrey in attendance. we've got serena williams. and a whole

the third factor was martin luther king's four people campaign, which was the sign that not only his opposition to the war which had built up over the years, his famous speech at riverside church a year before, but now king was saying the evils within american justice and equality, so the poor people's campaign was just getting started when he was killed. i was curious if any of those issues came within your purview of analyze what was happening to not only philadelphia, but throughout the country, in terms of loss of confidence in terms of the quality of life in the united states affected by the war? >> the only thing i would say later,y lai, which comes and i don't know the legal recall,lities that i richard nixon pardoned or commuted the sentence of lieutenant kelly, which is a pretty good indication that he thought that would be the popular move. here is somebody responsible and convicted of a war crime, but nixon still thought it some way, whichsunda suggested he had this therstanding of where so-called silent majority was on a lot of these issues, the perception that somehow he

they had martin luther king being assassinated and they used that as an excuse to pass the antiproperty laws, someone will always say that a reason exists for the passage of some law but ki say to you, if i become the president, we are going to maintain law and order in the nation's capitol. that's going to be a good moral support for law and order in the united states when women can walk the streets and people with ride the transit systems. >> you repeatedly objected to being called a racist. >> yes. i do not regard myself a racist. i think that the biggest racists are the ones that called others racist. my wife got more negro votes than others in alabama. negro citizens would not have voted for my wife if they considered me a racist. >> governor, today. >> i said that within the context of the public school systems, i again say that when i said i was honest and when i come to washington, dc and i see all of the folks that talk one way but move to virginia and maryland. when i see people expediting the rush from the city. >> what bridges. >> they have been here a while. you have a lot

martin luther king. humphrey was seen as a johnson's lackey. and he concluded that the best and brightest have been brought at the wheel of vietnam. your thoughts. >> i think vietnam did destroy a lot of these establishments because they knew they were not winning it and they were sending people over to vietnam to die in a war that they knew was not going well. they were dishonest of the american people. as i would say and people historically would say you were not going to win that war. if you don't have the people in south vietnam, you cannot property it up outside. it is ironic and so sad now when you this i how many people die from both vietnamese and americans and now you know we can have good relationships with vietnam and was really, you know a tragedy. i think michael pointed out that lyndon johnson was afraid and democrats would be criticized and losing a common state and lost china and yet they are criticized anyway. at least we could have been criticized and not have so many people die and a quicker reconstructi reconstruction? vietn

martin luther king -- francis of asisi, i would say the holy father himself.t's the kind -- the way of love that is a transformational way that -- gosh, that h made a difference in human life and civization whenever a change for good has happened. it's been people motivated and passionate about a way of love that was bigger than self. >> you mentioned the holy father, pope francis. will mention him. your church, the episcopal is a big campaigner for civil rights, human rights, as you are. it has had a female presiding bishop before you. it's one of only two angrily li churches that permit gay in their churches. a lot of the world is reacting to something a victim of sexual abuse in chile said that he had a conversation with pope francis. this person said, this guy, the -- pope frances said to him, god made you like this, god loves you like this. i wonder what you think of that given that the catholic church believes that it goes against god's teaching and it's a disoriented, abnormal state of being. >> well, you know, what i can say is what my belief and the b