A worthy winner

On Martin Luther King Day let us remember that there once lived among us a man who was truly worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, which has recently become an object of ridicule as the latest prize-winner has tried to give hers away to the conman-in-chief. I had the honor of seeing King speak at the March on Washington in August 1963 and, as the years have passed and the US has sunk lower and lower, I have often thought of that day and King’s speech as representing America at its best. Here he is accepting the prize in 1964, less than four years before he was killed at the age of 39.