WFHB FireHouse Broadcasting

After a full day covering local service projects honoring the King holiday, WFHB capped off our extensive coverage with a live broadcast of Bloomington’s official 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday celebration. Although it was a free event, tickets were required to ensure that the Buskirk-Chumley Theater was not filled beyond its capacity of around 600. Tickets were gone in less than 48 hours due to overwhelming interest in this year's keynote speaker, Reverend Jesse Jackson. Event organizers said Jackson is a dream guest for the MLK celebration, a respected figure who talked the talk and walked the walk right beside Dr. King in the 1960s at the height of the civil rights struggle. Light over dark, character over color, and plenty of football analogies pepper his speech in this WFHB radio exclusive recorded on-location at the Buskirk-Chumley in Bloomington, Indiana on January 18, 2010.