the book "chasing king's killer" is about the death of martin luther king jr. and his assassin james earl ray. the author james swanson was interviewed by "associated press" writer jesse holland. >> host: this is an absolutely fabulous book especially now that we are coming up on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of dark to martin luther king, jr.. why now? why is this a subject that we need to talk about now, james earl ray? >> guest: first of all it's a book i've always wanted to write remember when he came to chicago in 1956. i remember his assassination and i remember so vividly that my father the day after dr. king's prayer he came home early from work. i said where you home? he said my employee lives in the south and west side of chicago. they are going home to protect their houses and their families. he drove me to the neighborhoods it's a story i've lived with since i was a child and i knew the anniversary is coming up. i think it's an important occasion and it's really the climax of a trilogy of books i'd done on assassinations in american life

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. ♪ ♪

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

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

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

nation's reaction to the death of martin luther king junior on april 4, 1968. welcome everyone and thank you so much for coming out tonight. i am the manager here we are so delighted to have jason with us tonight. he is the author of the brand-new book the heavens mike crack. he received his phd in history from uc berkeley. he is the associate professor of history at the university of new hampshire and he's the author of two other critically acclaimed books on the history of the hip --dash a civil rights movement. not too distant mirror shivers with intensity. with the continued relevance to their own travail. please join me in welcoming jason to water street bookstore. think you step for the introduction and for having me here at water street books. thank you to everybody for coming to this inaugural reading of my third book. i need to be tied to the it's exciting. we are starting history and making a little bit. most books on martin luther king on the balcony in memphis. that was on april 4, 1968. that's where it might begin. i pick up the story where many pr

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

most people think of martin luther king as a civil rights leader. the people don't look at him in that way in the scholarly world.un but unfortunately most of the public does not know that. so the book is the attempt to bridge the gap and it is short so trying to create a different way of remembering. and then to have 3000 people mentioning from the local we took over all the streets with union people from every part of the country and the united auto workers but thousands of people came for the march and the national civil rights museum. all kinds of events one of the most touching was jesse jackson. and then to recommit themselves and remember what this is really about. so how we remember him is crucial. here is the one person of color where we have an actual holiday and but to honor him would be the first holiday in memory. >> but then when they wrote the other books i came out in 2007 but dominant was the image of martin luther king in -- montgomery but but he was the spokesperson and brought in and needed a megaphone for the movement of people

he think martin luther king would be proud of donald trump?story. we get the unemployed that we had in the black community five years ago. you don't think he would sit there and go yes, you're putting black men and women to work? the lowest employment we have in history. steve bannon was speaking to my colleague emily maitliss and you can hear her questioning bannon‘s claim. and martin luther king's daughter, bernice king has responded strongly on twitter. steve bannon has dangerously and erroneously co—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

martin luther king jr.y held private meetings and private meals here in this room at this table on this china for three days and two nights. and they discussed the plan i of the selma to montgomery march. doctor bunch during that point in his life was ailing, and just to give you a little bit of a background while dr. bunch, to sum up to meet with dr. king. dr. bunch received the nobel peace prize in 1950 for brokering the peace agreement between israel and palestine. dr. king received is in 1954. but my mother finished high school in washington, d.c., and during her high school years she lived two doors down from dr. bunch, and my mother and his daughter were best friends in high school. so there was a connection. joan bunch called it was one day and said, is martin luther king, jr. living in your home? and my mother said yes. and she said, my father wants very much to come and talk to him about this upcoming march. and my mother assured her that if dr. bunch came to selma, she and my father would take exc

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.'rs for the selma to montgomery march. >> even if we pass this bill, the battle will not be over. what happened in selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and state of america. it is the effort of american negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of american life. their cause must be our cause too. because it's not just negroes, but really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and and injustice. and we shall overcome. ms. . >> the night that president lyndon johnson addressed the nation -- march 16, 1965 -- he ended that speech by echoing the words that dr. martin luther king jr. or used so often in the civil rights movement. there was a photographer here, frank dandridge, who worked for "life" magazine at the time who was embedded in the house. and he wanted to capture dr. king's emotions as he watched on television president john committing to -- johnson committing to signing the voting rights act. this was the chai

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

funny, 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,

martin luther king junior is assassinat assassinated. robert kennedy is assassinated.vided 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 in the streets. 1968 was a time when america was tearing itself apart and no one knew what would come next. >> let me ask you about the youth movement. you've written a lot about this and the massive protest in 1968. do you see connections between those demonstrations then and what we're seeing today with the youth movement, particularly when you look at the call to action on gun reform following these school shootings? >> absolutely. i mean, right now we're seeing the first mass student movement since 1968 and the high schoolers now in '68 in the late 60s was mostly college but high school was also really involved in opposing the war and millions and millions of students were taking to the streets and it's important to remember back then 27 million young american men were eligible for the draft. and so it galvanized the entire cou

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

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 well he get five percent i was blown away by how well bernie sanders did you know this is a very conservative society in the united states the center in the u.s. is the far right in many other places in the world and bernie sanders calling himself a socialist i said you never get anywhere using that term and long behold in my young people they do or him a poll that was done at the time showed that for the younger generation they had a more positive view of socialism than they did of capitalism of course it also

it's martin luther king that beautiful passage. where he saying the greatest threat might not be the clan. i agree with your goals but not with the message. i think we see a lot of that. we have lots of people who say they are on board with the goals and ideas of black lives matter but a lot of the tactics there has been so much criticism and a lot of that criticism is not coming from again in the words of king the moderate or the liberal i think there's also a danger there is the way but the civil rights movement is often invoked in this conversation. near to too extreme here too disruptive that crazy moment two years ago which we've talked about before where the mayor of atlanta he is celebrating by explaining the huge police presence at these demonstrations around the weight it is moved to chastise black lives matter i think often my people who profess allegiance to the goals. i think we have to talk about that. i think there is a way that the evoking makes people feel like i would be with that kind of movement. but these people

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

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

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

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jesus embraces not only st panhard of clay of all but also martin luther. the cathedral is divided by units of time four hours for the protestants the rest for the catholics. shortly after ten am the cathedral becomes catholic. blue closing has been given a privilege this sunday the fifteen year old student has been chosen to carry the holy relics from the sacristy to the altar the skulls of the brothers john and paul who died as martyrs in the fourth century. the relics may only be displayed in the sanctuary. being a catholic liturgy. for the rest of the time they have to be locked away in a cupboard. john had shifted from a throne and that sparked a reformation the trade in relics indulgences that's more they shouldn't be displayed prominently in an intercom factional church it's an example of truly a momentum of course the participants don't want them. but wait another hundred years and then maybe they'll say they're also our forefathers in faith who also died for us in the faith who were killed while they also were not all to wait and see. if they just.

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

, 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

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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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 jr. play this. >> the late dr.te, we must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love. when we do that, we will make of this old world a new world. for love, love is the only way. >> loved that. that was from 1957 from dr. king. his sermon, loving your enemies. why those lines if the civil rights icon? some people saw it as political. >> it was absolutely spiritual. what the ripple effects are, that's beyond me. but it was absolutely spiritual just as jesus of nazareth was spiritual. jesus picked up that cue from moses. >> the former chief strategist of the trump administration talked about dr. king to the bbc. watch this. >> donald trump has the lowest black unemployment in history. the lowest unemployment. if you look at the policies of donald trump, anybody, martin luther king would be proud of him and what he's done for the black and hispanic community. for jobs. >> dr. king would be proud of donald trump? >> the lowest unemployment in recorded history? you don't think martin luther king would be p

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