In the Shadow of Dr. King

Rev. Harcourt Klinefelter, a Dutch Baptist pastor with American roots, worked as a sound technician for Dr. Martin Luther King. He joined Dr. King during the famous marches of Selma and he participated in recording his speeches and interviews.

Rev. Klinefelter kept a lot of his audio-recordings and now, fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King, embarks on a trip to the US, bringing his old tape recorder and his recordings with him. In Atlanta he meets the son of Martin Luther King, who was only nine years old when his father was killed. Along the way to Selma Harcourt Klinefelter also meets old fellow activists and with them he looks back on the marches to Selma and the March Against Fear in 1966. During this last march, Harcourt Klinefelter was with Dr. King when the marchers got attacked with stones in Philadelphia (MS) and got teargassed by the authorities in Canton (MS).