[inaudible conversations] and my particularratitu to renee graham, a stellar columnist for the boston globe. she'll be joining me later in the program, and she'll have questions for me, and then she and i both will take questions from the audience. so that's the format. i'll start for 25 minutes or so with an introduction so that i can bring some of the book's highlights to you. then re may and i'll go at it, and then we'll open the conversation for your questions. i've brought a few photos of material that illustrates my book, and i've also brought a few audio clips. these are brief excerpts from interviews that i conducted while i was working on the book. so on the morning of april 3rd of 1968, martin luther king jr. arrived at the airport in memphis, tennessee. as you see in this first photo. accompanying him were three of his close aides. from the left, andrew young, then ralph abernathy, and on the far right bernard lee. they had taken eastern airlines flight 381 from atlanta. at the atlanta airport, there had been a bomb threat that was directed specifically at king. the passeng