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Power, Prescience of King's 'Mountaintop' Speech [8min]

Of all the speeches that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave in his lifetime, "I Have a Dream" is probably the most famous. But his "Mountaintop" speech, delivered extemporaneously the night before his death, is startling in its power and prescience. We hear excerpts from the speech, along with commentary by the Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles, a Memphis minister who was with King that night.
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