James Brown. A clip from the documentary, "The Night James Brown Saved Boston", features James Brown singing as a backdrop to footage of Dr. King and interviews with band member John Starks who speaks about the moment Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray and how everyone felt. Also seen in the clip is footage of President Lyndon B. Johnson hailing Dr. King as a man of nonviolence. Civil Rights activist Dr. Cornel West of Princeton University notes that he feels something died inside of James Brown when Dr. King was killed.

Video transcript:

John Starks: I would say 10 minutes after it happened regards of where you were, you heard about it and a lot of us started to cry. You know you feel sad that you got angry. It was a point where you just couldn't understand. You didn't want to believe that. I think the anger, the hurt, all of it was rolling to one and the retaliation was brewing.

President Johnson: I asked every citizen to reject the blind violence that has cracked Dr. King who lived by non-violence.

Cornel West: If America do this to his brother, none of us can aspire to his moral magnanimity. His death would have been the end then some dancing when somebody saw with such a spiritual gravity, it shut down like a dawn like that. I think some died in Jamestown.

Want more of Shout Factory's best picks? GO TO:
http://www.shoutfactory.com/ten
Want more James Brown, go to Shout Factory:
http://www.shoutfactory.com/jamesbrown