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    Clarence B. Jones - What Would Martin Say?

    Clarence B. Jones - What Would Martin Say?

    Kepler's Bookstore

    July 23, 2008

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    If anyone would have insight into what Martin would say, it would be Clarence B. Jones, King's personal lawyer and one of his closest principal advisers and confidants. Jones—now seventy-seven, has chosen the occasion of this somber anniversary to break his silence—removing the mythic distance of forty years' time to reveal the flesh-and-blood man he knew as his friend, Martin. Jones ponders what the outspoken rights leader would say about the serious issues that bedevil contemporary America: Islamic terrorism and the war in Iraq, reparations for slavery, anti-Semitism, affirmative action, illegal immigration, and the vacuum of African American leadership.

    Delving deep into his memories of the man he worked closely beside, and with help from the King Institute at Stanford University and reams of formerly top-secret and now declassified FBI files, Jones offers the guidance and insight his friend and mentor would have provided for us in these troubled times.

    Jones was recruited by Martin Luther King in 1960 and spent the better part of the next eight years working with him as his principal adviser. He was the first African American Allied Member of the NYSE who was a principal member of a Wall Street investment banking firm (Carter, Berlind & Weill). Jones is a Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford.

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      July 23, 2008

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      7:30pm

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      Kepler's Books

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