**NOTE: This is the second in a series of blogs from FOX 4 Sports Anchor Al Wallace, leading up to the 50 year anniversary of the assasination of President John F. Kennedy.
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It was 50 years ago today, June 22, 1963, that John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would meet for the first time. The Civil Rights Movement is more than just headline news in the summer of 1963. It’s a major issue for the Kennedy Administration, and it’s being spearheaded by Dr. King.
President Kennedy wants equal rights for all Americans, but knows it won’t happen without a struggle or without controversy, especially in the South. He is an advocate of civil rights,
but not as strong a supporter of the movement as is his younger brother Bobby Kennedy, the attorney general of the United States.
King has come to Washington for brotherhood, and it won’t be the last time he visits the nation’s capitol in 1963. Two months later in August, he will lead a march on Washington, and deliver his famous “I Have A Dream’ speech.
Some Americans tie the civil rights movement to communism. Though both are distinctively different, and they are both flash points for the Kennedy Administration. On June 22, 1963, the day he first met face to face with Martin Luther King Jr., Kennedy has exactly five months to live.
