Let Freedom Ring
Proud member of the Little Rock Nine, Ernest Green, with Daughter McKenzie Green and I at the "Let Freedom Ring" 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington.
Former Presidential Candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson, formerly of President Obama White House Adminstration Van Jones, and Reach Media Director of Operations Kirk Tanter in the Press Gallery of the 'Let Freedom Ring' 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington Commemoration.
Media Mogul Oprah Winfrey speaks at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
The Presidents have arrived. President Obama and First Lady Michele Obama, former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton arrive entering from the Lincoln Memorial Monument.
The crowd grows as the day went at the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington Commemoration.
National Urban League President Marc Morial along with Reach Media News-Talk Network's newscaster Ebony McMorris on the historic anniversary of the August 28th, 1963 March on Washington.
President Barack Obama's nominee to be Ambassador to Japan and a member of the influential Kennedy family (the only living child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy) Caroline Bouvier Kennedy speaks at the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.
Promptly at 3pm on August 28th, 2013, the "Let Freedom Ring" bell rang, which was the exact time Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke 50 years ago in 1963. The large bell came direct from the 16th Street Baptist in Birmingham, Alabama, where the four little girls were killed in another church bombing mere weeks after the March on Washington in 1963.
Former President Carter and Clinton, the First Lady Michele Obama, Congressman John Lewis, Actress/Broadcaster Oprah Winfrey, and daughter of the late President Lyndon Johnson, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb watch as President Barack Obama speak at the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.
President Barack Obama keynotes an attentive crowd at the "Let Freedom Ring" 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington.
CNN's reporter Joe Johns interviews me for a CNN 'on the spot' report.
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