60 of voters still thinking hed done a good job, even though he was guilty. When he was sentenced, the judge talked about you was to people, dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde. But buddy and Assembly Said privately to a friend later, how come i didnt get to acting paychecks. He was convicted of racketeering conspiracy in knowing about it, but not been physically involved in any of the underlying facts. By the kind of framed it as did i do . And convicted of being the mayor. He was the guy who knew how to keep himself insulated like a bob ross he had once prosecuted ironically and he was able to sit at the direct lines, but knew everything that was going on. He was the guy who would know how many rolls of toilet paper when city hall. He said that was part of his miss in his or her that he conveyed that fear in people that everything, but he really didnt. So that was his defense, but ultimately didnt play out with the jury and he went to prison and relinquish his famous to pay for what he called hi
What prompted you to read the book this way . I wanted to write some thing to mark its 50th anniversary in business 50 years of my life, of kings legacy and his life coincided with my coming of age. So part of it was to do those two tasks. I felt i had connect it to the king legacy and yet i felt there was something about my life that needed to be told in order to understand how king impacted me and how i got involved in this amazing journey of editing kings papers. Well, its an excellent read. You and i are at the same generation i too am coming of age in the six days in the book i must say was bittersweet army because i knew dr. King. He was my mentor. I knew him to last years of his life. And bitter because the way he was taken from us because of racial hatred in this country. I guess we start at the beginning because the beginning of your book here on the mall with dr. King and near the end of your book, 50 years later with his monument, which you help to design. And in between, co