Bob Orr filmed a speech by Martin Luther King in 1965.
The Republican gubernatorial candidate, then an 18-year-old stringer for WSOC-TV in Charlotte, used a 16mm handheld crank camera to film King at an appearance in Montreat on Aug. 21.
King was speaking at the Christian Action Conference at Anderson Auditorium.
The memory came back to Orr today when he was looking at photographs of the event on the Asheville Citizen-Times Web site.
In this photo, Orr is the "skinny young guy" with a camera in the front left, he tells Dome.
"It was a remarkable experience and I can remember my Dad, who went with me, and me talking about what an incredible speaker Dr. King was on the way home," he wrote.
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Re: Orr's brush with Dr. King
perhaps natdug is mistaken and attempting to refer to the Romney incident of the "march" that never was? However, clearly if there are photographs I can't see the connection to the this incident either.