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“It is exactly 7:01...”
Marking the exact minute that Martin Luther King Junior was shot, People locked arms around the fountain in Franklin Square and stood in silence for forty seconds, one second for every year since Doctor Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee.
Mayor Michael Nutter was on hand and says he was at his grandmother's house on that day in 1968, when he heard King had been shot:
"I was only ten at the time, but you could tell from the adults there that there was a pain, there was an anxiety, there was an anticipation of potentially bad things."
Nutter says as a society, we've come a long way in the 40 years since King's death, but there is still a lot of work to be done.
