Martin Luther King, Jr.

I was a mile or two away from that motel in Memphis in April 1968 buying groceries with my then mother-in-law. I'd gone out to bring the car around and turned on the radio to hear the breaking news. I walked back and got the store manager and he shut it down. We went back home and listened in horror. My mother in law was a product of her time and place in some respects but she was weeping along with me.

It would have been a tragedy no matter where I lived at the time. I was in California for JFK and Memphis still (in hospital giving birth) for RFK. There's no good place to hear something like that. But there's something about being right there that's different. It's still like it was yesterday.

I had an article clipped from Alternet about replacing Joe Lieberman in the Senate and I may get back to it or you can check it out yourselves. In the meantime here is Tom Paine today reminding us all to not lose sight of Doctor King's other goals which he did not live to achieve.

Ann