![]() ![]() “Whatever you need will be taken care of,” he said. Sanders and Woodruff returned to their rooms at the Mayflower Hotel.ĬARL SANDERS: Bob Woodruff called Ivan and told him to do whatever he needed to, even if it meant using his private jet to help Mrs. TOM JOHNSON: Sanders and Woodruff moved over to another phone in the office to call Ivan Allen in Atlanta, to see what they could do to help.ĬARL SANDERS: The president initialed the ticker tape that had the news on it and gave it to me. He said, “I’m sorry you have to hear this,” and handed me the bulletin about King being shot. TOM JOHNSON: I walked in to tell the president what had happened and saw Carl Sanders, the former governor of Georgia, and Robert Woodruff, the head of Coca-Cola, in there.ĬARL SANDERS: The president talked to the aide, then turned back to us in terrible shock. One minute later, Attorney General Ramsey Clark came into the room to discuss the shooting. At 7:24, White House special assistant Tom Johnson, originally from Macon, Georgia, entered the Oval Office to give the news to President Lyndon Johnson. Just after 7 p.m., as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() This article originally appeared in our April 2008 issue. ![]()
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