Article: Residents reflect on Martin Luther King Jr. pt.1: Members of class of 1964 remember a commencement speaker.

Byline: Tom Mayer

Jan. 15--Fewer American lives have been more documented, scrutinized and detailed than the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Yet even in the midst of such cavernous retrospection exists a yawning hole, a gap in the civil rights leader's timeline that remains almost wholly unfilled by official biography.It is a gap that helped chart the lives of two New Bern residents.Little known is a speech King gave June 14, 1964, but from the podium that day at Springfield College's commencement exercises sprang words that still resonant for Mary Ann and her husband, George "Buddy" Fox.Unmarried at the time of King's address, Mary Ann was a ...

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