Martin Luther King Interview from 1968

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Many who tweeted about my father today would have hated him 50 years ago. He was for the eradication of poverty and caring for poor people. No human was an alien to him because he believed this is a World House. And he asserted that inequality in healthcare is most inhumane. #MLK pic.twitter.com/9zvrAtr35u

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Wow, I’ve seen/heard a lot of MLK footage but this is the first time I’ve seen this interview. How profound this is. pic.twitter.com/Lm8SR2z3bT

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The man appeared very dignified and coherent. His arguments were laid out in a straightforward way and without the need for tricks or distractions.

Even 50 years later he makes one think about people all over the world and their plight against oppression. 

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

I remember just after he died, I was working in Atlanta, Georgia in a "Cube Farm" (Engineering Office), and while working, the office got deathly quiet ... and I looked up over the fabric partitions, and no one was there! 

Everyone had mysteriously disappeared.

I started walking around to see  what was happening, and met someone in the hallway coming my way. I asked him "Where IS everybody?  My end of the Office is empty!"

He said "Oh, they have all taken off for a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial, in the park ...."

It was then I realized he was a fine excuse for a gentleman, even though he ran around on his wife and had a mistress, as was discovered many years later.

Not being politically astute at the time, I then realized the value of the man .... went out in the sunshine, and had some hot dogs from a street vendor in the park.

I had a dream too ... of a Kosher Polish Sausage, with sauerkraut, and all the fixin's, and a tan.

Sometimes you can't always get what you want ... but you get what you need.