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C.t. vivian, and bayard rusten, he can straw strength from those who can march on. this was a good day for him to go in with so many heroes and sheroes. >> bill clinton no, sir something about being a comeback kid. he had some comebacks during his time in the white house. president might draw inspiration from them as they stand at the kennedy gravesite, i was trying to imagine what they would be thinking, the two of them plus hillary clinton. the best i could come up with is we shall all hang together or assuredly we will hang separately. i think they are bound together. >> something tells me ...

>> bayard rustin and i got up very early. we went out to the mall. there was literally nobody, and bayard turned to me and said, do you think anybody is coming to this march? >> bayard took a walk on the mall just to check on the march facilities, and the press was surrounding, saying mr. rustin, what's happening? you said there were going to be 250,000, there's only half a dozen here. >> and bayard went into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper. >> i looked at my watch. >> and he looked at the piece of paper and looked at the watch. >> and i said, gentleman, everything is going accordin...

The conviction was sex perversion. >> bayard had been attacked for his homosexuality and police call views because he was a socialist and a pacifist. >> it was just one of these facts of life. >> bayard is gay and he didn't hide it. >> the senator is interested in attacking me because he is interested in destroying the movement. he will not get away with this. >> i think bayard was relieved that it was out, it had happened. nobody thought that strom thurmond had anything good in mind by doing it. weeks before we were running out of buses and cars. i calculated there would be approximately 67,0...

From my papers or look away, i would look back at the crowd and it was twice as big as it was when i looked before. it was an endless stream. >> i think that i was a little surprised to see so many whites. >> and the fact that people were there, both black and white, rich and poor, getting along. >> it was very enlightening and i knew we stood a chance. >> the long-awaited march for jobs and freedom on washington, d.c. has started and it started early without its scheduled leader. >> keep moving up there. >> and the people were already marching. they literally pushed us toward the washington m...

Would they come? they did. >> john lewis probably impressed me more than anybody. because he was a young guy who knew where he was going, knew what needed to be done. >> i received a note under my door from bayard rustin saying, in effect, that there was some concern about my speech. my speech was pretty strong. bayard came to us and said that archbishop o'boyle was not going to participate in the march unless john changed his speech. >> he said that unless the text were altered, the archbishop would not give the invocation. >> near the end of the original text, i said something like, we may b...