Two months ago on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, I heard a story about the one city where there were no riots.
It was supposed to be a routine campaign stop. In a poor section of Indianapolis...a largely black crowd had waited an hour to hear the presidential candidate speak. The candidate,...had been warned not to go by the city's police chief.
As his car entered the neighborhood, his police escort left him. Once there, he stood in the back of a flatbed truck. He turned to an aide and asked, "Do they know about Martin Luther King?"
Today there's a monument on the spot where that flatbed truck sat and where the man standing in it told bad news so well.
Many other American cities burned after King was killed. But there was no fire in Indianapolis...
Two months later, 40 years ago today, that candidate was also assassinated.
Here are the words he said from the flatbed truck, words that had the power to keep a city calm:
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