Another witness, Ashby Richardson, 64, of Massachusetts gave the campaign a similar account.
“I’m just appalled that the news picks this stuff up and say it didn’t happen,” Richardson, now a data-collection consultant, said by phone. “The press is being disingenuous in terms of reporting what actually happened. I remember it vividly. I was only 15 or 20 feet from where both of them were.”
Did you know I saw the MLK speech on The Mall that didn’t happen? It was called the I Have a Dream speech. Not really. It didn’t happen. But I saw it. I think I was 2 years old. I think there’s video of it. That’s probably where I saw it.