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Originally Posted by mossbacked
Agreed, and I might add the journalists of the day villified Dr. King, printing stories in their words that were diametrically opposed to his words. Does history repat?
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To give you an idea of how times have changed, I remember very well the day that King was shot. I was watching TV in my bedroom in Rockville, MD (I was 14 years old) and a newsflash came on the TV to say that Dr. King had been shot. I ran to tell my mother (born 1916 near Selma, AL), to which she responded "I hope they killed that SOB."
A lot of folks were very uncomfortable (to say the least) about Dr. King's ideas and actions.