I remember that day. I had just turned 9 the day before.
....I was just finishing up basic training
I remember it well. I was just shy of 17. Lived about an hour’s drive from Memphis. For the most part Memphis was closed for business.
Damn it, he didn’t earn a doctorate. He engaged is massive a ademuc fraud. Stop referring to him as “Doctor”, HE DID NOT EARN A DOCTORATE!!!
Back in the early 1990s (when I was a university student), I read an article (or perhaps it was a documentary)that discussed about how both MLK and RFK were planning a large demonstration like the 1963 Million Man March that was going to be for getting the United States out of Vietnam and also for black rights. Apparently many establishment Dems like LBJ and others and their friends in the FBI saw this planned demonstration as a threat and acting on this threat was a likely theory as to why both men were shot dead within the space of two months.
Now that he’s dead 50 years, isn’t it time to release his FBI file?
I was in the last few weeks of “A” School at the NTC San Diego. His shooting didn’t affect me one way or another. I was more concerned about what my next duty station would be. Later on a few shipmates and I attended a rally for George Wallace and Curtis LeMay. I think I still have the Wallace/LeMay license plate that I bought for a dollar at the event. General LeMay was an advocate of using nukes on enemies in situations where lots of our men would likely die if the choice was ground warfare. Wonder what nuking Hanoi might have resulted in besides a lot of dead gooks?
Please don’t mention the facts: he cheated on his wife with dozens of women, plagiarized his so called doctorate, and often leaned far left. Since he was a preacher, a religious figure, his statues on public ground should be torn down, now.
I guess we’ll be bombarded by that screaming U2 song today.
Google is on top of things I see.
If blacks admire MLK so much why don’t they do what he said?