March on Washington, August 28, 1963
Two hundred and fifty thousand people strain to hear his every word. Martin Luther King Jr. stands before the huge statue in the Lincoln Memorial. It has been one hundred years since Lincoln freed the slaves, and now King is saying that black Americans are still not free. “I have a dream!” King proclaims. The crowd is in fever pitch. In the White House, President Kennedy watches King’s speech on television. John Kennedy is considered a great orator. But he turns to Bobby and passes judgment on what he has just seen: “He’s damned good.”