I was blessed to be with him the last weekend before his death . Today is the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rev . Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife, Coretta Scott King, are joined by civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis at a news conference in Washington on Feb. 4, 1968. King 's work was not about complexion , but direction . He says if King were alive today , he would fight against poverty , polarization . Jackson : King fought for a one , big-tent America , everybody in and nobody out .
Today is the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rev . Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife, Coretta Scott King, are joined by civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis at a news conference in Washington on Feb. 4, 1968. King 's work was not about complexion , but direction . He says if King were alive today , he would fight against poverty , polarization . Jackson : King fought for a one , big-tent America , everybody in and nobody out .