Dr. Clarence Jones

9 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 10, 2024 by Dr. Clarence Jones · across every show →

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May 10, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jones: MLK had unparalleled knowledge of the Jewish Talmud
“Was to me, the first and only, I haven't met a black preacher, ok, that had, as a commanding knowledge, Of the Talmud, as Dr. King had.”
Dr. Clarence Jones May 10, 2024 ▶ 28:52 A Conversation with MLK's Lawyer & Speechwriter: Dr. Clarence Jones · Joe Lonsdale
May 10, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
1960s civil rights leaders never expected to live past age 50
“We had to externalize the reality because none of us, including myself, Ok. I'm 93 years old. Ok. I never expected to live beyond the age of 50.”
Dr. Clarence Jones May 10, 2024 ▶ 22:51 A Conversation with MLK's Lawyer & Speechwriter: Dr. Clarence Jones · Joe Lonsdale
May 10, 2024 positive
Opinion
Jones: MLK's Birmingham Jail letter and anti-Vietnam speech are his best
“If I had to bookend Martin King's life, I'd bookend them with two things. The letter from the Birmingham jail, And the speech he gave opposing the war in Vietnam. Time to break the silence. Those are the two most powerful.”
Dr. Clarence Jones May 10, 2024 ▶ 24:57 A Conversation with MLK's Lawyer & Speechwriter: Dr. Clarence Jones · Joe Lonsdale
May 10, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
MLK recruited Dr. Clarence Jones in person at his California home
“One day in the second week of February, Martin Luther King, Jr., and someone who traveled with Bernard Lee, they showed up at my door at 27 51 Highview Avenue, an altitude of California.”
Dr. Clarence Jones May 10, 2024 ▶ 2:28 A Conversation with MLK's Lawyer & Speechwriter: Dr. Clarence Jones · Joe Lonsdale
May 10, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Nelson and David Rockefeller provided $100,000 in cash for MLK's 1963 bail
“So I go into the Chase Bank, and there was Nelson Rockefeller, the governor of the state of New York... David Rockefeller was the president and CEO... Grab the bag of money, a 100,000 dollars... I signed this promissory note. It was a promising note on demand.…”
Dr. Clarence Jones May 10, 2024 ▶ 18:02 A Conversation with MLK's Lawyer & Speechwriter: Dr. Clarence Jones · Joe Lonsdale
May 10, 2024
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
MLK adapted a Langston Hughes poem during a sermon to recruit Jones
“He took an actual poem by Langston Hughes. Life ain't been no crystal stair. He took that poem, only he changed the lyrics in the poem to make it sound as if my mother was a person in the poem.”
Dr. Clarence Jones May 10, 2024 ▶ 8:38 A Conversation with MLK's Lawyer & Speechwriter: Dr. Clarence Jones · Joe Lonsdale
May 10, 2024 positive
Insight
True political alliances enable honest mutual criticism without bad-faith accusations
“If I am a black person, totally committed to the, an alliance with the Jewish community, does not mean that I have lost my ability to criticize. Ok. But the difference is, you see, someone like me, I know it. When Jewish people hear me, if I say something, wel…”
Dr. Clarence Jones May 10, 2024 ▶ 36:04 A Conversation with MLK's Lawyer & Speechwriter: Dr. Clarence Jones · Joe Lonsdale
May 10, 2024 neutral
Assertion Open · timeframe Apr 1963
Jones smuggled MLK's Birmingham Jail drafts out under his shirt
“Twice a day in the morning, and in the afternoon, I would take what he had written, put it under my shirt, and then I would take the blank sheets of paper that he needed and give it to him, and then the following, that afternoon, or if it was the afternoon nex…”
Dr. Clarence Jones May 10, 2024 ▶ 16:06 A Conversation with MLK's Lawyer & Speechwriter: Dr. Clarence Jones · Joe Lonsdale
May 10, 2024 positive
Insight
Jones used his Juilliard training to draft speeches matching MLK's cadence
“The advantage I had to Dr. King, that I could write Words, and I could hear how they would sound when he spoke them, because I had an ear that was attuned to what the words would sound like.”
Dr. Clarence Jones May 10, 2024 ▶ 27:34 A Conversation with MLK's Lawyer & Speechwriter: Dr. Clarence Jones · Joe Lonsdale
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