Martin Luther King Jr.'s transcendent final speech, given at the Mason Temple in Memphis on April 3, 1968, is one of the towering pinnacles of oratory in English -- or any language. It's as if Dr. King knew deep down that his time was nigh (by that point he'd already received countless death threats) but was determined to be the instrument of what he believed was God's will in the world. The next day he was gunned down by an assassin's bullets on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.... More >>>