Democracy Now! Special: Martin Luther King's Life and Legacy 40 Years After His Assassination

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated forty years ago today.
He was in Memphis, Tennessee to march with sanitation workers demanding a
better wage. We spend the hour on his life and legacy. We hear from the Rev.
Jesse Jackson, who was with King at the Lorraine Motel, where he was killed;
Harry Belafonte, who was with Coretta Scott King at the King home in Atlanta
on April 4, 1968; Dr. Vincent Harding, a close friend and colleague of
King¹s who wrote King¹s major antiwar speech, ³Beyond Vietnam;² Taylor
Rogers, a former sanitation worker in Memphis; Charles Cabbage, a longtime
activist and community organizer in Memphis who met with King hours before
he died; Jerry Williams, one of the only African American detectives in the
Memphis Police Department in 1968; Judge D¹Army Bailey, a circuit court
judge in Memphis and co-founder of the National Civil Rights Museum; and we
hear King in his own words, giving his major speech against the war in
Vietnam and his last public address given the night before his death in
Memphis, Tennessee.

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