November 21, 2013 - Martin Luther King III on His Father's Dream & JFK in Dallas

"It's important that we make sure that the lessons of leadership JFK and my father exemplified are not lost," Martin Luther King III told an audience that packed Meharry Hall at DePauw University. Speaking on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, the eldest son of Martin Luther King Jr. said it's imperative "that we see to it that each new generation picks up the fallen mantle and carries it forward into the future."

King presented a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture, "Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of Two Pivotal Events: My Father’s ‘Dream’ and JFK in Dallas." He spoke in DePauw's East College, about 100 yards from Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church, where his father, the legendary civil rights leader, addressed an audience in 1960.