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unknown is always good to see you, my friend. thanks to you for joining us this evening. on april 3, 1968, the mason temple in memphis was packed. memphis was a city in mourning. it was grappling over the deaths of two employees of the memphis department of public work, employees who were crushed to death while taking cover from severe weather. today marks the 55th anniversary of their deaths today.th under the slogan i am a man more than 1,000 black employees were on strike and tensions were rising. so despite a bad thunderstorm that april night the room was filled, and there was one man the crowd wanted to hear from. martin luther king jr. had visitedhe memphis twice before. he was trying to help the black workers get a living wage and decent working condition, and that night he was back, delivering what would be his final speech the night before he was assassinated. dr. king began his famous mountaintop speech by saying something is happening in memphis, someth ....
Unknown is always good to see you, my friend. thanks to you for joining us this evening. on april 3, 1968, the mason temple in memphis was packed. memphis was a city in mourning. it was grappling over the deaths of two employees of the memphis department of public work, employees who were crushed to death while taking cover from severe weather. today marks the 55th anniversary of their deaths today.th under the slogan i am a man more than 1,000 black employees were on strike and tensions were rising. so despite a bad thunderstorm that april night the room was filled, and there was one man the crowd wanted to hear from. martin luther king jr. had visitedhe memphis twice before. he was trying to help the black workers get a living wage and decent working condition, and ....
Divisi division. it does change history whether it s ford theater or dallas or memphis. one of the things i would say to con seservative friends who mig be minimizing this is you always can say about an attack that doesn t work, well that was some sort of jake leg operation. if you arrested lee harvey oswald on november 21st, 1962 on james earl ray on april 3, 1968 or the hijackers of september 11 on september 10th and said this is what was going to happen, there would be people saying you re crazy. that could never happen. it is in fact people like this who change history. ....