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NASHVILLE As Americans reflect on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., an audiotape of an interview with the civil rights leader discovered in a Tennessee attic sheds new light on a famous phone call John F. Kennedy made to Kings wife more than 50 years ago.
Historians generally agree that Kennedys phone call to Coretta Scott King expressing concern over her husbands arrest in October 1960 and Robert Kennedys work behind the scenes to get King released helped JFK win the White House a month later.
King himself, while appreciative, wasnt as quick to credit the Kennedys alone with getting him out of jail, according to a previously unreleased portion of the interview with the civil rights leader days after Kennedys election.
The Kennedy family did have some part in the release, King says in the recording, which was discovered in 2012. But I must make it clear that many other forces worked to bring it about also.
A copy of the original recording will be played for visitors at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, for a King Day event on Monday.
King was arrested a few weeks before the presidential election at an Atlanta sit-in. Charges were dropped, but King was held for allegedly violating probation for an earlier traffic offense and transferred to the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Georgia.
The Kennedys intervened, and King was released. Their intervention won the support of black voters who helped give Kennedy the winning edge in several key states.
Despite their help, however, King was careful not to give them too much credit.
I think Dr. King was aware in the tape that he probably did more for John F. Kennedy than perhaps John F. Kennedy did for him, said Keya Morgan, a New York-based collector and expert on historical artifacts. Morgan acquired the reel-to-reel audiotape from Chattanooga, Tennessee, resident Stephon Tull, who discovered it while cleaning out his fathers attic.
Raymond Winbush, director of the Institute for Urban Research at Marylands Morgan State University, said Kennedys call to Kings wife was political in nature because the Kennedys had been slow to get involved in the civil rights movement.
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A New Jersey rabbi is shedding light on his two-decade relationship with Bill Clinton in a book that features his correspondence with the former president, including during the low point of his impeachment.
Menachem Genacks book is titled Letters to President Clinton: Biblical Lessons on Faith and Leadership. It contains a forward by Clinton, who discusses the importance of the missives he received from Genack.
Over the years, these individual missives were invaluable to me in addressing the challenges of leadership and public service, the ex-president writes.
In a recent interview, Genack who became informally known as Bill Clintons rabbi said that what people will learn from the book is that Clinton, a Southern Baptist, has a deep relationship with scripture.
On one occasion, the rabbi said, Clinton corrected a typo from Genacks office in a specific biblical passage. He said he has also developed a connection with Hillary Clinton over the years.
The collection includes a note Genack sent the former president, with whom he has traveled overseas, during the low point of his presidency, the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal that led to his impeachment.
In it, the rabbi referred to Psalm 27:14, encouraging Clinton to wait on the Lord and remain strong.
When compiled, the letters Rabbi Genack and I exchanged both during and after my presidency paint a powerful portrait of an interconnected global society at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Clinton writes.
The book has received plugs from pols such as Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.).
In the interview, the rabbi said the book reveals a deeply spiritual side of Clinton that the public doesnt always see a spirituality that has continued since he left office more than a decade ago.
An expert sheds light on what polio virus found in the nations sewers means for the world
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Public health advocates have long set their sights on wiping out polio worldwide, but recent resurgences of the pernicious disease raise questions about its future eradication.
Several months ago a wild strain of the virus surfaced in a sewer system in Rahat in southern Israel, and now it has reportedly been detected throughout the country. Israels government this week launched a nationwide vaccination campaign, attempting to inoculate all children under nine years of age with oral polio vaccine (OPV), a form of the vaccine containing a live, weakened form of the virus. Most of these children were already vaccinated as babies with inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), otherwise known as the dead-virus vaccine. But people who were injected with IPV can still be healthy carriers of the disease and shed the virus in feces.
Scientific American spoke with Bruce Aylward, assistant director general for Polio, Emergencies and Country Collaboration at the World Health Organization, to find out more about the situation in Israel and how recent events there are affecting global efforts to wipe out the disease.
[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]
What is happening in Israel right now? What we know is that there is widespread detection of a wild polio virus at a number of sites that we have sampled, going back three-plus months. This virus is very similar to a strain that was detected in December of last year in Egypt, in the sewage there. This original virus came from Pakistan. Whether it went into Egypt and then Israel or Israel and then Egypt or [whether it spread via] two separate importationsit is unclear.
The virus has only been found in sewage at this point. There have not been any clinical cases of this so far; no children have been paralyzed. In the past [Israel] has detected [polio] virus from surrounding countries and it has disappeared very quickly, but this time it is persisting for longer. The virus cant live in the sewage itself and multiply. What we are seeing is persistence of [people excreting] the virus.
How high is Israel's vaccination coverage? This is a country with quite high immunization coverageabout 94 percentage of coverage. Its with the inactivated virus, the dead-vaccine virus that Dr. [Jonas] Salk made in the 1950s (versus the live vaccine coverage that [Albert] Sabin developed, which we mainly use in the vaccination program). Since the kids dont have intestinal immunity, or not very much, the disease is managing to spread.
The reason the oral vaccination is used in the vaccine campaign is it provides intestinal immunity that is so crucial in stopping the person-to-person transmission spread in settings where you might have a high transmission rate of the viruslike in tropical areas or areas with suboptimal sanitation. For a long time in developed countries Sabins vaccine was the vaccine of choice, but the drawback was one in a million times a child can get the disease and get paralyzed. Its very rare, but its a risk.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Born Michael King, Jr. (1929-01-15)January 15, 1929 Atlanta, Georgia, United States Died April 4, 1968(1968-04-04) (aged39) Memphis, Tennessee, United States Monuments Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Alma mater Morehouse College (B.A.) Crozer Theological Seminary (B.D.) Boston University (Ph.D.) Organization Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Influencedby Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Benjamin Mays, Hosea Williams, Bayard Rustin, Henry David Thoreau, Howard Thurman, Leo Tolstoy Political movement African-American Civil Rights Movement, Peace movement Religion Baptist (Progressive National Baptist Convention) Spouse Coretta Scott King (m. 195368) Children Yolanda Denise-King (deceased) Martin Luther King III Dexter Scott King Bernice Albertine King Parents Martin Luther King, Sr. Alberta Williams King Awards Nobel Peace Prize (1964), Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977, posthumous), Congressional Gold Medal (2004, posthumous) Signature
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.[1] He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.[2] King has become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism.[3]
A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career.[4] He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.
In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and stopping the Vietnam War.
King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, the middle child of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King.[5] King Jr. had an older sister, Willie Christine King, and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King.[6]:76 King sang with his church choir at the 1939 Atlanta premiere of the movie Gone with the Wind.[7]
King was originally skeptical of many of Christianity's claims.[8] Most striking, perhaps, was his initial denial of the bodily resurrection of Jesus during Sunday school at the age of thirteen. From this point, he stated, "doubts began to spring forth unrelentingly".[9] However, he later concluded that the Bible has "many profound truths which one cannot escape" and decided to enter the seminary.[8]
Growing up in Atlanta, King attended Booker T. Washington High School. A precocious student, he skipped both the ninth and the twelfth grade and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduating from high school.[10] In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology, and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951.[11][12] King married Coretta Scott, on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of her parents' house in her hometown of Heiberger, Alabama.[13] They became the parents of four children; Yolanda King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice King.[14] King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, when he was twenty-five years old, in 1954.[15] King then began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University and received his Doctor of Philosophy on June 5, 1955, with a dissertation on "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman". A 1980s inquiry concluded portions of his dissertation had been plagiarized and he had acted improperly but that his dissertation still "makes an intelligent contribution to scholarship",[16][17][18]
Civil rights leader, theologian, and educator Howard Thurman was an early influence on King. A classmate of King's father at Morehouse College,[19] Thurman mentored the young King and his friends.[20] Thurman's missionary work had taken him abroad where he had met and conferred with Mahatma Gandhi.[21] When he was a student at Boston University, King often visited Thurman, who was the dean of Marsh Chapel.[22] Walter Fluker, who has studied Thurman's writings, has stated, "I don't believe you'd get a Martin Luther King, Jr. without a Howard Thurman".[23]
With assistance from the Quaker group the American Friends Service Committee, and inspired by Gandhi's success with non-violent activism, King visited Gandhi's birthplace in India in 1959.[6]:3 The trip to India affected King in a profound way, deepening his understanding of non-violent resistance and his commitment to America's struggle for civil rights. In a radio address made during his final evening in India, King reflected, "Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. In a real sense, Mahatma Gandhi embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation."[6]:1356 African American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin had studied Gandhi's teachings.[24] Rustin counseled King to dedicate himself to the principles of non-violence,[25] served as King's main advisor and mentor throughout his early activism,[26] and was the main organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.[27] Rustin's open homosexuality, support of democratic socialism, and his former ties to the Communist Party USA caused many white and African-American leaders to demand King distance himself from Rustin.[28]
LUMBERTON There was a time when scoring a table at Uncle Georges restaurant was difficult.
Times have changed.
For 20 years, the restaurants menu of sandwiches, pizza and Italian specialties drew a mix of truckers, lawmen, office workers and families. Today, diners are few and far between.
Uncle Georges co-owner Sue Vasilopoulos blames the downturn on the nearby construction of a new bridge on U.S. 301.
Vasilopoulos, who opened the Fayetteville Road restaurant with her husband George in 1993, said the decrease in traffic to her establishment has been unprecedented.
We used to have a full house during lunch, now we only serve four to six tables, she said. The loss has been tremendous, people avoid this area because they dont want to deal with the congestion.
The eatery can accommodate up to 95 customers.
In August 2012, Devere Construction Company of Alpena, Michm. was awarded a $12.9 million contract to replace the old bridge with a diverging diamond interchange over Interstate 95. Vasilopoulos said she noticed an immediate drop in business when construction started in September 2012.
The project is currently running ahead of schedule and is expected to be completed by November, according to Chuck Miller, district engineer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
Vasilopoulos attributes the decrease in business to a number of factors, including the widespread use of safety cones and other construction indicators near her restaurant.
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A fire broke out in the kitchen of Kababeque Indian Grill on University Boulevard late Sunday night.
The fire started at approximately 9:45 p.m. in the restaurant, which has been undergoing remodeling recently. Construction workers were inside the restaurant when the fire broke out.
Something was left on on one of the stoves, said Jack Horton, one of the construction workers.
Horton and two workers were part of a night construction crew that had begun renovation work inside the restaurant at around 9 p.m. Horton said they were putting up plastic inside when the fire broke out towards the back of the restaurant in the kitchen area.
We tried to put it out with the fire extinguishers, Horton said. We thought we had it out but the fire started back up again and we had to call the police department because it got so smoky in there we couldnt see anything.
Horton said none of the construction workers were injured by the fire.
Eat-a-Pita, the restaurant next door to Kababeque, was forced to evacuate after smoke began filling up inside, according to Shelby Gormsen, an employee at Eat-a-Pita.
At 9:50 p.m. [the construction workers] came and told us that there was a fire next door, Gormsen said, and thats when all the smoke started coming in through here.
Emergency services from the Tucson Fire Department, the Tucson Police Department and the University of Arizona Police Department responded to the incident and the fire was eventually extinguished. Several emergency vehicles closed off traffic on the block of University Boulevard between Euclid Avenue and Tyndall Avenue in front of Kababeque until approximately 10:50 p.m.
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By Andy Metzger, State House News Service
House Speaker Robert DeLeo had a great familiarity with the old Orient Heights Blue Line while growing up in East Boston, he recalled Tuesday morning before a ribbon-cutting at the newly refurbished station.
I couldnt help but think about my younger days when I would be here every single morning in my commute to Boston Latin School at the time, said DeLeo as one of the trains approached the station. And I knew exactly where every door would open, where every crack was, and the noise of the trains as well.
The Orient Heights stop is the last of a series of Blue Line renovations in East Boston. Some preliminary work is underway at the Government Center Station, which will be closed during the more extensive overhaul beginning next year.
After being closed since March, Orient Heights reopened for commuters Tuesday morning, though some finishing touches, such as escalators, have yet to be completed.
The $28 million project features a new pedestrian bridge divided into two, with one side leading riders from the inbound to the outbound platform, and the other side ferrying the general public completely across the station and subway tracks.
Sen. Anthony Petruccelli, an East Boston Democrat, said the station is near his home, and also serves Winthrop, where DeLeo now lives.
DeLeo noted the countless hours and the countless meetings he held in the office of former Senate President Robert Travaglini, an East Boston Democrat, to make sure that this was a special place, and that the residents of East Boston, Winthrop and Revere would be well taken care of.
MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott said the new station has solar panels that will provide 20 percent of the electricity, new bike racks and new zones for motor vehicle drop-offs and bus stops.
Were doing some great things in this community, Petruccelli said, noting the expansion of an East Boston greenway.
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