Friday, April 4, 2008

April 4, 1968: Walter Cronkite

Embedded below is a 3-minute excerpt of the “CBS Evening News” from the night Dr. King was assassinated.

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Destruction said...

My 3 fave MLK memories are:

1. When my mom couldn't think of anything better to tie on door in Baltimore during the riots then an old black bra. After everyone was asleep, I switched it with one of my dress socks. Wanted to make sure those rioters knew there was MAN up in this house.

2. When my son was 7 he wrote this comment about MLK for his class. "Martin Luther King was a very famous man who didn't know how to use his indoor voice when he was talking. It was okay because sometimes he talked outside."

3. Four years ago, I was cleaning the kitchen with my oldest grand who was 6 at the time. We were off for MLK's birthday, so I decided to play one of his speeches on the comp in the kitchen (geek here). As time went on, I beamed with pride as I watched the serious expression on her face as she listened intently. after about 20 minutes she looked at me and said: "Pops, who are the 'knee grows' and why can't they get what they want?" That's when I realized that I'd never used the term Negroes around her nor fully explained to her what MLK was talking about. So we had a nice long talk that day...and every year on his birthday, she reminds me of it. This is the first year she reminded on the anniversary of his death.

April 10, 2008 at 7:35 PM

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