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NBC anchor Brian Williams continued his preparations for his Friday trip to the Lorraine Hotel to mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King. Tuesday, he had Tom Brokaw preview Sunday's airing of his documentary King on the History Channel. Now Williams himself recounts the reasons why King was in Memphis that fateful week. His politics had changed from civil rights to economic justice. He was organizing a march in support of the city's striking sanitation workers. The footage Williams vividly reminds us of the vitriolic racism and mortal fear that King faced. In one scene a crowd of angry white man screams We Want King--and not in a supportive way. In another he is walking in a crowd when a loud explosion is heard in the background. His companions keep walking. King, clearly a dead man walking, reflexively ducks to dodge a bullet.
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