Source: Town Hall
by Will Alexander
“I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like for Jesse Jackson, Jr., his father’s namesake and the last person to see his extremely frail dad in the quiet moments before he died. ‘I woke up at about 12:35 a.m., I heard a gasp, and that gasp was my father’s final breath,’ he said in a CBS interview. … ‘That pressure is the inability to live up exactly to who he is, and what he’s been able to accomplish, and I’ve also lived with that my entire life. … At a critical juncture in the centuries-old freedom saga, Jackson helped to write those chapters as heir apparent to Martin Luther King, Jr. Or was he? From the moment King died, there was a general sense that Jackson was pushing himself to be ‘king’ of a movement that never bestowed the crown.” (02/23/26)