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Anniversary of King’s assassination

We’re nearing the anniversary of King’s assassination (April 4). It’s a sobering day. I hope we never have another assassination in the US. Gandhi, too, was assassinated. Was Socrates?
King begins:

Something is happening in Memphis; something is happening in our world. And you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the [...]

King’s last Sunday sermon

The day after President Obama’s inauguration there was a prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. The Very Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd, the Dean of the Cathedral, in his introductory remarks said that Dr. King’s last Sunday sermon, March 31, 1968, was at that very Cathedral, in that very pulpit, I would imagine. [...]