The Root.com has organized a collection of excerpts and statements of famous thinkers, actors and entertainers who have reflected on the day they heard that Martin Luther King Jr had been assassinated in Memphis. The collection includes:
- Angela Davis, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush, Dizzy Gillespie, Rosemary Clooney
- Anita Hill, Larry Hagman, Billy Graham, Michael Jackson and Roy Jenkins.
- Coretta Scott King, Vernon Jordan, Miriam Makeba, Peggy Noonan, Robert Novak and Frank Rich
- Philip Roth, Tim Russert, Cybill Shepherd, Al Sharpton, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- Nina Simone, David Suzuki, Mary Wilson and Andrew Young
- Hank Aaron, Ralph Abernathy, Joan Baez, Ben Bradlee and James Brown.
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