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Transcript: Louis Farrakhan Speaks For Over Two Hours in Washington
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- October 17, 1995
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Louis Farrakhan spoke for two and a half hours at yesterday's Million
Man March in Washington, D.C. Claiming not be a psychiatrist, he
said he did, however, want to operate on attendees' heads.
BOB EDWARDS, Host: This is Morning Edition; I'm Bob Edwards. Hundreds
of thousands of black men came to Washington, D.C., yesterday to take
part in what was called the Million Man March. The huge assembly
was the largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history. The day
involved prayers and speeches by, among others, the Reverend Jesse
Jackson, civil rights activist Rosa Parks, and singer Stevie Wonder,
but the culmination of the event was the speech given by ...