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Coretta Scott King
Pioneer of Civil Rights
After my first semester in Boston in 1951, I met Martin Luther King, Jr. Of course, Martin Luther King, Jr. was studying for his doctorate in systematic theology, and he was going to go back South and pastor a Baptist Church, and he was looking for a wife. I wasn't looking for a husband, but he was a wonderful human being, and he made everyone feel special, and he made me feel very special as a woman. I still resisted his overtures, but after he persisted, I had to pray about it, because my parents were religious, I was brought up in the church, and I had a strong faith. I always believed that there was a purpose for my life, and that I had to seek that purpose, and that if I discovered that purpose, then I believed that I would be successful in what I was doing. And I thought I had found that purpose when I decided that music was going to be my career -- concert singing. I was going to be trained as a concert singer at the New England Conservatory of Music. I studied voice the first year, and after I met Martin and prayed about whether or not I should open myself to that relationship, I had a dream, and in that dream, I was made to feel that I should allow myself to be open and stop fighting the relationship. And that's what I did, and of course the rest is history.
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Coretta Scott King
Pioneer of Civil Rights
After we married, we moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where my husband had accepted an invitation to be the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Before long, we found ourselves in the middle of the Montgomery bus boycott, and Martin was elected leader of the protest movement. As the boycott continued, I had a growing sense that I was involved in something so much greater than myself, something of profound historic importance. I came to the realization that we had been thrust into the forefront of a movement to liberate oppressed people, not only in Montgomery but also throughout our country, and this movement had worldwide implications. I felt blessed to have been called to be a part of such a noble and historic cause.
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Larry King
Broadcasters' Hall of Fame
When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why. I was magically attuned to it. I would listen to these voices, and then as I got a little older -- and just a little older, 7 or 8 -- I would imagine myself doing what they were doing. I would actually stand up, sit down, I'd go to the mirror, and I would say, "The Romance of Helen Trent," as if I were the announcer. Then I would go to baseball games and I'd roll up the score card, and I'd sit up in the back row, and all my friends would look up at me, and I'd broadcast the game to myself. I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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Larry King
Broadcasters' Hall of Fame
Herbie, my best friend, his father, Morris, used to walk with me down the street. I'd be 18 years old, just out of high school. All the other kids were going to college, and I was working at the United Parcel Service. And I was always telling everyone, "I want to be a broadcaster." And he would walk with me down the street and put his arms around me and would actually say, "What, are you nuts? What, are you a pipe dreamer? What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey? You're not going to be Arthur Godfrey. Get a job with a future!"
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Willem Kolff
Pioneer of Artificial Organs
My father was director of a sanatorium for pulmonary tuberculosis, and at that time there were no antibiotics, tuberculosis was a terrible disease. And, he and I would walk in the woods around that sanatorium and he would discuss his worries about his patients. And from him, I certainly inherited this extreme concern about the well-being of patients. I've seen him very happy when he succeeded after months and months of rest and other things to have these people go home cured. I've also seen him crying and desperate after trying for a long time and a patient did not get well, and went home to die.
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Willem Kolff
Pioneer of Artificial Organs
When I was this young assistant at the University of Groningen my responsibility was for four beds, or rather the patients in four beds. That was all I had to do. And, one of these patients was a young man, 22 years old, who slowly and miserably died from renal failure. He became blind, he vomited, and it was a miserable death. And I, as a very, very young physician, had to tell his mother, in a black dress and a little white cap like the farmers have, that her only son was going to die. I couldn't do a damn thing about it. So, I began to think, "If I could just every day remove as much urea as this boy creates, which is about 20 grams, then the boy could live." Well, he died, but I began to work on that.
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