Martin Luther King Jr. adviser on what it was like to hear him speak: 'It was spellbinding'
Monday, 21 January 2019 For Clarence Jones, legal adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. and author of What would Martin Say?, hearing the civil rights leader speak was otherworldly.
"I never heard anybody speak like that before. It was spellbinding. It was mesmerizing," Jones says in a video reflecting on his friend's legacy and the lessons of the...
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The gaffe occurred Jan. 17, when reporter Kevin Steincross accidentally referred to civil rights legend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as "Martin Luther Coon Jr.'"