story we learned from interviewing clarence jones. not only was the dream part improvised on that day, he has talked about he had given that i have a dream earlier in a speech in detroit. it was in the back of his mind. he had not put it in his prepared marks. he was giving more of a policy speech. there had been a lot of talk in the run up to the march about this question, what is it that king should do at this march? should he be more should he be talking more policy or should he be preaching? they went in the policy direction until the day and he s standing in front of a quarter of a million people and the perception as we learn from people that were there was that he was losing the crowd a little bit. it was the dream sequence that brought the crowd back and broud brought the crowd on its feet. that s what we remember. it s an amazing thing to think that this huge historic moment for us as americans but also as malala said, for everyone around
i m listening to this and as i m listening i see that he s reading. mccale yeah jackson interrupted. tell him about the dream. tell him about the dream. his whole body language changed and he changed to the preacher stand. i say to the person standing next to me, whoever that was, i said, these people don t know it but they re about ready to go to church. i have a dream. that was clarence v. jones, speech writer for martin luther king jr. and the last surviving member for the planning team of martin luther king s i have a dream speech. talking about what it was like to be there. that interview is part of the