[JCEccles]

According to multiple eyewitnesses, Mitt's father, Michigan Governor George Romney, in fact marched with Martin Luther King in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

You are boring us.

[mewzilla]

You are boring us.

Then why'd ya ping me?

[libbylu]

In my research on this, a book published in 1965 said the two marched together.Close enough for me. Was it Broder?

[Polybius]

To: mewzilla ...... According to multiple eyewitnesses, Mitt's father, Michigan Governor George Romney, in fact marched with Martin Luther King in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. You are boring us.

And, according to multiple eye witnesses I can scrounge up, I interviewed Robert E. Lee for my high school American History term paper.

History is not documented by stating "Some 72 year old named Shirley told someone that she remembers joining a march back in 1963 and that Martin Luther King and the Governor were somewhere in the crowd of thousands."

History is documented by corroboration with primary source material and the primary sources extensively document that Martin Luther King spoke at Grosse Pointe High School on 14 March, 1968 and there is no documentation whatsoever that Martin Luther King ever marched in Grosse Point in 1963 or at any other time.

According to the Grosse Pointe Historical Society, Martin Luther King never marched there.

Broder's book included a chapter on George Romney which says the former Michigan governor did indeed march with King in the town of Grosse Pointe. However, according to the records of the Grosse Pointe Historical Society, King never staged a march there -- and any such event certainly would have been documented. However, the historical society said King did visit (as opposed to an actual march) Grosse Pointe in March 1968 but that did not happen until after Broder's book was published. Furthermore, Romney was not even there when King spoke at Grosse Pointe High School.

Martin Luther King's speech at Grosse Pointe High School was delivered on 14 March, 1968 and can be accessed here

The extensive newspaper documentation of that Grosse Pointe High School speech by Martin Luther King collected by the Grosse Point Historical Society can be seen here

Even Mitt Romney himself admits that he never saw his gather march with King.

Mitt Romney acknowledged yesterday that he never saw his father march with Martin Luther King Jr. as he asserted in a nationally televised speech this month, and historical evidence shows that Michigan's Governor George Romney and the civil rights leader never did march together....Romney said his father had told him he had marched with King and that he had been using the word "saw" in a "figurative sense."

The historical record shows Martin Luther King marched at multiple places in the U.S. but not in Grosse Pointe and not with George Romney.

The historical record shows that George Romney supported the ideal of Martin Luther King at a time when many politicians did not and therefore figuratively marched with the ideals of Martin Luther King.

Why don't you just leave it at that instead of continuously attacking multiple Freepers on multiple threads who are pointing out the true history of the events.

To: cripplecreek .... You're calling this elderly woman a liar too? You're pathetic and sick in the soul. .... 5 posted on 12/21/2007 5:32:41 PM PST by JCEccles