Courted and fell in love with a woman and married a second time. He wrote thousands of passionate love letters to each of these women. This was a real living breathing human being and i dont think we have seen that about woodrow wilson. Next Diane Mcwhorter on her look carry me home birmingham, alabama the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution. She focuses on the 1963 bombing of the 16th st. Church that killed four young girls in times when the police try to disperse young demonstrators with fire hoses and dogs. This is an outward. Cspan the last lion under acknowledgments as i think my father for delivering me as Robert Renoir wrote out of the history into history and the awful responsibility of time. What are you getting out there . Guest at the last line from all the kings men which was an inspiration for this book because as you recall in that book the main character is able to tie his own history to characters he thought had nothing to do with him when he was growing up
Protest of George Wallaces segregation now, segregation forever a doctoral address. And for the first time they had said its wrong and that was a really notable departure for someone to make a public statement. We listened to that now and it just seems so trivial for somebody to say that but at the time they were really going out on a limb. So when they get this back from king you know they go you are so misunderstood and when i interviewed him in the 80s he was still complaining about how king had made them out to be a bigot. That was what he had taken away from this experience. What the d. Say . I miss some of that. Rabbi was complaining in the 80s when i talk to him that king had made him out to be a bigot and he was really sore about that. If we could collect the written questions now and we will continue but we will go ahead and do that. You may want to research this later. I am Roman Catholic and i would remind you of this. Dr. King when the the United States itself. [inaudible]
We still find that people in those communities are saying thats an old case. We dont need to revive it. Why bring up the past . Lets let it go. Lets let god take care of it. And i answer did not god give us a mind . Did not god give us the strength . Why are we depending on that . That can bring closure, i feel, to all of these negatives that still float around in the air, whether they be in mississippi or whether it be in other parts of this country. It was the same thing that was told to me. Years and years i searched for evidence that would help us get a third trial with medgars assassin. People said youre crazy, youre living in the past. Youve got to move away from it. I cant help you. I wont help you. And this one word, one word that medgar had and i had, and i hope all of us want to make positive changes will have, and thats perseverance. A believing in something, a being determined, having that vision. Being determined of seeing that vision comes into being. And assessing whatev