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Shots from 1968 ricochet in the US election

Martin Luther King Jr's birthday is celebrated tomorrow. Forty years after his assassination, his legacy raises hopes, anxiety and fatalism about current events

By Jim Dwyer  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

For Epps, who was instrumental in persuading King to come to Memphis for the sanitation workers, the history of that moment leads him not to worries, but to strategy.

"When they cut down the leader, the work is going to go on," he said. "Get rid of Mrs Clinton, you have Mr Obama. You get rid of both of them, you get Mr Edwards. A flock of geese will move to protect the lead goose from the hunter."

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