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- resigned yet, at that time, as I recall.
F:
Yes.
S:
As a matter of fact, he was in Florida making a speech there, a dedication speech, when this broke here in Chicago the day that Martin
Luther King was killed. I, of course, conferred with Otto Kerner
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- His political background; campaigning with LBJ in IL in 1964; Martin Luther King’s assassination and subsequent activities in Chicago; Shapiro’s involvement with the 1968 Chicago convention; the National Guard at the 1968 Chicago convention
- . King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were doing?
Y:
I don't recall a great deal of discussion on specifics. I do know that we discussed the
possibility of certain methods resulting in a counter kind of reaction, and I can remember
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- .
It reminds me of the lines from Idylls of the King, the one called
"Arthur and Modred." One day, as Tennyson relates it, Arthur and Modred
were playing on the sand, and Modred built a sand castle, and Arthur kicked
it away, and Tennyson says, "And ever after