Sacramento Adult Entertainment: LeBron saga wrong place for Jesse Jackson
Riveting stuff that must have been hard to talk about. Only there was one little problem with what Jackson said. It wasn’t true. By every account, Jackson was either hiding behind a swimming pool’s privacy wall or not seen at all when the fatal shot was fired at Dr. King.
And as every other member of the King’s inner circle stayed in Memphis in the days following the murder, Jackson quickly left for Chicago, where he hired a PR agent and told a national audience in an interview on the “Today” show that he was the last person to speak to Martin Luther King.
James Bevel, an adviser to Dr. King, said about Jackson’s behavior in the days after the shooting: “To prostitute and lie about the crucifixion of a prophet within a race for the sake of one’s own self-aggrandizement is the most gruesome crime a man can commit.”
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