MLK left us 40 years ago today

[Chalupa]

So where were you when you heard the horrible news?? I was only 4 at the time so I really don't remember it or the aftermath.

Edited April 5, 2008 by J.H. Deeley

[medjuck]

I was in Ottawa working on Pierre Trudeau's campaign to become Prime Minister.

Though I didn't hear it till much later, I find King's final speech ("I have been to the mountain..." ) eerie in that it seems to predict his imminent death.

[Chuck Nessa]

This was "driven home" to me today. I was in the studio making new 24 bit transfers of Wadada Leo Smith's Procession of the Great Ancestry and the recording ends with MLK speaking............. Big silence when it finished.

[papsrus]

A fella on our local radio station today commented that King was probably one of the top five people who had the greatest impact on what the United States has become today. Hard to disagree with that. The others mentioned, of course, were Lincoln and Washington (that's as far as he got). I'd venture FDR might warrant inclusion in that group. But I'd also include someone like Henry Ford, or Edison maybe.

King's speech remains one of the most stirring calls for social justice in American history, IMO.

[papsrus]

This was "driven home" to me today. I was in the studio making new 24 bit transfers of Wadada Leo Smith's Procession of the Great Ancestry and the recording ends with MLK speaking............. Big silence when it finished.

Powerful ...

[Harold_Z]

I was in the car on my way to a gig at "Frankie's Playpen" in Paterson NJ when I heard the news.

A few months later I was coming home from a gig at the "Metropole" in NYC when I heard the news about RFK.

Thinking about either incident still saddens me.

[Chalupa]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4ejh2_ma...speech_politics

[connoisseur series500]

I was 8 years old. It just seemed as if everyone was being assassinated. Then there was the daily gore of the Vietnam War.

It was a shame that MLK didn't make it into old age. It would have been great to see what he might have accomplished. He was by far one of the greatest leaders over the last 50 years.

[AllenLowe]

along with RFK, the last of the great American political charismatics - I actually met him in 1962 -

Edited April 6, 2008 by AllenLowe

[mikeweil]

I was only 14 when this occured - can't remember what my feelings were, only that I heard it in the news. I only remember it somehow scared me that there were political leaders and presidents assasinated in a country that claimed to be democratic and in a leading position in the world ...

[Elissa]

I weren't yet here when he left.

Anyone else tuning in for Brokaw's KING tonight? Looks as if it will be an event.

[Elissa]

I weren't yet here when he left.

Anyone else tuning in for Brokaw's KING tonight? Looks as if it will be an event.

Of all the world's music, they begin with U2?!?!