Johnson: Wish I’d met Alabamian Clara Ester, eyewitness to American tragedy

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In this March 17, 2018 photo, Clara Ester stands in the Centenary United Methodist Church in Memphis, Tenn. Ester, who picketed and marched with the striking sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968, was a witness to the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. She ran up onto the balcony where King was shot, and tried to help as he struggled for air. “I’m still looking at him,” Ester recalled. “He looked like he was lifted up and thrown back on the pavement. Next thing I remember, I was stepping over his body, and I’m noticing that he’s struggling for air.” (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

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