Archive on 4 - Meeting Myself Coming Back: Series 1 - Rev Jesse Jackson

High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson, replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a re-examination of their lives. Rev Jesse Jackson, a witness to the murder of Martin Luther King and the first African-American candidate for US President, reflects on his life in sound drawn from a half-century of BBC archive. Being close to Dr King during the troubled years of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement was just one of the formative experiences for Jackson. Here he listens back to his younger self, recalls his thoughts at the time and applies to them the self-knowledge that comes from distance. Other episodes in his life include addressing the first black political rally, negotiating with President Assad of Syria over hostages, running twice for US president, witnessing the swearing-in of Barack Obama, and most recently defending one of America's most controversial black icons, Michael Jackson.