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07 May 13
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On April 3, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final public speech. In a crowded church in Memphis, Tenn.,
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But he talked about death more that night than we'd heard him talk about it in a long while."
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King was stabbed in the chest with a letter opener by a deranged woman
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tip of the blade came so close to his aorta that his doctor said a sneeze would have killed King.
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letter from a teenage girl, who wrote, "I'm so glad you didn't sneeze."
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We had no way of knowing that would be the last speech of his life. And then he took us to the mountaintop ..."
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"He preached himself through the fear of death,"
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while much of King's dream has been realized, there's much more to do.
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each generation will have its portion, and that helps to keep the dream alive."
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26 Jan 11
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03 Apr 08
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