{"id":39472,"date":"2020-04-04T11:13:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39472"},"modified":"2020-04-04T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T18:13:53","slug":"52-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/04\/04\/52-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifty two years ago today I had “cleaned up for Gene”, sort of, and was working on his campaign, while fighting to keep SDS nonviolent.  Back then, the world was not connected the way it it now.  I did not watch TV every day, so I did not learn until sometime the next day that my hero and friend had been murdered.  Barack Obama joined John Lewis in a tribute to his legacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, and Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of his death. In order to commemorate the occasion, Barack Obama discussed MLK’s legacy with John Lewis<\/a> and a group of high school students in a new video released by the Obama Foundation.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the video, Lewis recalls where he was when he got the news that King had been shot \u2014 in Indianapolis, organizing a rally. Obama tells students from Washington, D.C.\u2019s Ron Brown College Preparatory High School that Lewis was one of the people<\/a> who made him want to become involved in public life.<\/p>\n

“I thought that this would be a good opportunity to connect the people who inspired me with the next generation of young leaders who are going to be doing outstanding things themselves,” Obama tells the students, whose all-male high school grew out of the Obama administration<\/a>‘s My Brother’s Keeper initiative…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s that video<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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