All 29 Uses of
Martin Luther King Jr.
in
Killing Kennedy
- Despite—or perhaps even because of—the violence, the civil rights movement continues to gain momentum, and Robert Kennedy is now paying close attention to one of its most prominent leaders, a thirty-three-year-old charismatic Baptist minister named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Reverend King is as intense and enigmatic as President Kennedy.†
p. 98..6
- The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Birmingham earlier in the spring to fight for integration.†
p. 164..9
- When it is done, thousands gather in the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak about the courage of the children.†
p. 165..5
- Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to the protesters before they set out from the church, reminding them that jail was a small price to pay for a good cause.†
p. 165..9
- Meanwhile, the reputation of Martin Luther King Jr. is on the rise.†
p. 167..9
- Despite the triumph, Martin Luther King Jr. and John Fitzgerald Kennedy are not on the same page.†
p. 168..0
- The president and Martin Luther King Jr. walk alone through the White House Rose Garden.†
p. 177..1
- And then there is Martin Luther King Jr.'s womanizing.†
p. 179..0
- Nearly a decade after Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in 1968, the FBI files on his private life will be scaled until the year 2027.†
p. 179..3
- Even standing here in the relative privacy of the Rose Garden with Martin Luther King makes Kennedy sweat.†
p. 180..2 *
- Martin Luther King Jr. could not care less about the president's discomfort.†
p. 180..3
- Martin Luther King Jr. is on the front lines in this battle.†
p. 180..5
- But Martin Luther King Jr. is every bit as educated, well-read, and politically savvy as the president.†
p. 180..7
- Martin Luther King Jr. has five more years to live.†
p. 181..3
- When Louis Martin's good friend Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed for civil rights demonstrations in 1960, Bobby swung support to King's cause by placing a sympathetic phone call to the reverend's wife, Coretta.†
p. 183..8
- In the nation's capital, Martin Luther King Jr. is about to direct hundreds of thousands of civil rights protesters onto the Washington Mall.†
p. 198..3
- AUGUST 28, 1963 WASHINGTON, D.C. AFTERNOON "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation," begins Martin Luther King Jr. His words are scripted.†
p. 199..2
- Martin Luther King Jr., truth be told, is dull.†
p. 200..6
- But Martin Luther King Jr. is the man they've waited to hear.†
p. 200..8
- This is their expectation: that before this speech is done, Martin Luther King Jr. will say something so powerful that this day will never be forgotten.†
p. 201..0
- And all this, to support Martin Luther King Jr., a man of whom Bobby acidly commented just last night, "He's not a serious person.†
p. 202..4
- "We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote," Martin Luther King Jr. preaches—and that is exactly what he is doing right now, on the verge of swerving away from his prepared speech to quote from the Old Testament book of Amos.†
p. 202..7
- Martin Luther King Jr. has found his rhythm.†
p. 203..1
- Now Martin Luther King owns the crowd.†
p. 203..3
- One hour later, an exultant Martin Luther King Jr. meets with John Kennedy in the Oval Office.†
p. 204..1
- At 10:22 A.M. on September 15, 1963, less than three weeks after America listened to Martin Luther King Jr. dream about black boys and girls in Alabama joining hands with white boys and girls, twenty-six black children are led into the basement of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church for Sunday morning services.†
p. 204..4
- Johnson, working closely with Martin Luther King Jr., framed the issue in terms of JFK's legacy in order to gather support for the act.†
p. 296..9
- Martin Luther King Jr. continued his civil rights crusading and became one of the world's most admired men.†
p. 298..7
- The murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, coupled with the drawn-out American involvement in Vietnam, led to a national sense of disillusionment that was the diametric opposite of Camelot's hope and optimism.†
p. 299..0
Definition:
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(Martin Luther King Jr.) inspiring U.S. civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of blacks; assassinated (1929-1968)