Opinion: Four groups of Angelenos watching the Obama inauguration
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In 1964, during an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp., the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said he was optimistic that there could be an African American president in the U.S. within 25 years or less. Robert Kennedy, then attorney general, had predicted it would be about 40 years.
Forty-five years after the BBC broadcast King’s interview, Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States.
People stopped to watch the historic events on television screens throughout Los Angeles. Video journalists from the Los Angeles Times visited four places:
• Cast and crew members of NBC’s show “Heroes” took a break from filming to watch at the studios in Hollywood. • The California African American Museum hosted an event at the museum in Exposition Park. • The Bridge cinema screened the live television broadcast from MSNBC in Los Angeles. • People gathered around a television placed on the sidewalk in front of the Beachwood Market in Hollywood.
-- Scott Anger
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