By Jeff Shearer
AuburnTigers.com
AUBURN, Ala. - At the airport in Washington D.C., Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr. held a payphone in each hand, the Associated Press desk in one ear, United Press International in the other.
It was the evening of April 4, 1968.
"Each of those reporters was reading from the ticker tape right from Memphis what was happening," Lafayette said, recalling the events of a half-century ago with the clarity of something that occurred last night.
Hours earlier in Memphis, he had met at the Lorraine Motel with Dr.