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Welcome back to "the ed show." our first question comes from april thompson. president barack obama's support of tpp is reverse psychology? maybe this is his way if he takes a stance for the tpp, it will motivate a lot of people to stand up and speak about it. pretty serious issue to take on to think that would be a good way to get it done, but i hope you're correct on that. what would dr. king say about the climate of union busting today? he would be totally against it. he was in memphis, tennessee, before he was assassinated fighting for the garbage workers

Platform had it not been for martin luther king jr. and his movement and his crusade for civil rights. so we are grateful to him for us being here. i'm also proud that i came from the same part of the south as he did. he never lost contact with the folks back home. he was helping tennessee garbage workers when he gave his life to a racist bullet. i remember i was back in the those days. i left georgia for college and the navy. when i came home from submarine duty, i was put on the board of education. i suggested to the other members that we visit all the schools in the county. they had never d...

>> the sermon was march 17th. king flew east to memphis to speak the next day to striking garbage workers. that same day james earl ray filled out this change of address card, and he, too, left los angeles, driving east. the new address he listed was king's home city of atlanta. ahead, for both men, a date with murder. coming up, the fbi. dirty minds and dirty tricks. >> someone was left in the room and was recorded in the act of sexual intercourse, and they assumed it was dr. king. welcnew york state, where cutting taxes for families and businesses is our business. we've reduced taxes and l...

Troopers had attacked civil rights protesters on what would become known as bloody sunday. ray could not explain that stopover, even to his lawyer, arthur haines jr. >> typical ray, evasion, i was just passing through and i stayed there. nothing. >> from selma ray went on to atlanta, staying at a cheap boardinghouse near downtown. later the fbi would find in his room a city map with circles drawn around the ebenezer baptist church where martin luther king preached and around the neighborhood where he lived. on thursday, march 28th, reverend king returned to memphis for a massive protest in sup...

Convention, then delivering a sunday church sermon. ray would later write this. >> i wouldn't say i hated king. i do think most preachers are a little phony, but i wouldn't consider shooting them. >> the sermon was march 17th. king flew east to memphis to speak the next day to striking garbage workers. that same day james earl ray filled out this change of address card, and he, too, left los angeles, driving east. the new address he listed was king's home city of atlanta. ahead, for both men, a date with murder. coming up, the fbi. dirty minds and dirty tricks. >> someone was left in the roo...