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Dr king lived a life of risk. In fact, while we were in Miami, there were threats made on his life there. And police had to be sent out by the Miami police force. Actually, as I reflect on this naturally. First of all, I'm horrified and shocked

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that it did happen, but to say that I did not expect it, that Dr King did not expect. It certainly is not exactly true. He lived in imminent danger continuously. This was his sacrifice and his willingness that the ideas in which he believed and to which

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he gave his life would somehow be gotten across to America. He knew that someday they literally were going to get him. And I might say this to paraphrase a scripture in the bible when jesus was being pitied by the people who knew of his impending disaster,

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they began to cry for him and he said, cry not for me, daughters of Jerusalem, but cry for yourself and for your Children. I firmly believe having known Dr king that he would feel that his life would be a cheap price to pay if it brought

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about a great reformation in race relations in America. How do you think people will react to this tragedy? The people who knew dr martin Luther king and who embraced his philosophy. I think that Nonviolence and its meaning will take on a new emphasis, but for those

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who only admired him as a black leader and did not necessarily share his philosophic belief or non violence, I think anything can happen. I think the man who shot dr martin Luther king has done one of the worst things he could for race relations in America,

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because I am convinced that with the temper of the american negro today, that Dr martin Luther King and his effectiveness with Nonviolence was the only thing which has kept disruption from coming earlier.