Friday, January 16, 2009
This is amazing
This Week's NY Times book section has a review of King's Dream by Eric J. Sundquist, a book about Martin Luther King's famous " I have a dream" speech. According to his research, the most famous lines of this great speech were not written in advance. He ad libbed them. That is just amazing! Read the review here.
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The speech will be show in its entirety Monday at noon on CNN.
Remember George Raveling, the former Washington and USC basketball coach? He was just a teenager in 1963 when he was hired to supply a little muscle on the podium. When Dr. King was done with the speech, Raveling asked for the text of the speech, and Dr. King gave it to him.
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