In a letter to the editor of the BYU Daily Universe about Martin Luther King, Barbara J. McDaniel laments the lack of interest in King's death on campus.

Date
Apr 16, 1968
Type
News (traditional)
Source
Barbara J. McDaniel
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Barbary J. McDaniel, "Irony," BYU Daily Universe, Vol. 20, No. 126, April 16, 1968, p. 3, accessed December 5, 2022

Scribe/Publisher
Daily Universe
People
Barbara J. McDaniel, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jaron Summers
Audience
General Public
Transcription

IRONY

Editor:

Yes j.s.--and I think it is ironical that the Universe considers Martin Luther King Jr. second page news.

May I also say that few of us in the student body could probably comprehend the joy the administration must have experienced concerning the timing of spring break. Fortunately the question of whether to dismiss classes on Tuesday for King's burial was averted.

Let not one of us fail to add to Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech--and someday--someday "brothers" I have a dream that freedom will ring from "Y" mountain. I have a dream.

We here at the "Y" are co-conspirators with the assassin of Martin Luther King. In the words of famous prayer, "We have done those things which we ought not to have done and we have left undone those things which we ought to have done."

Barbara J. McDaniel

Editor's Note: We don't consider Dr. King second-page news; however, the civil rights leader was killed Thursday--a day after we stopped publishing for the spring break. We did not put out a paper until Wednesday, nearly a week later. By then the story was dead news.

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