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Four decades after Martin Luther King was murdered, black Americans are torn between the hope that Barack Obama will reach the White House and the fear that he too could fall to an assassin's bullet.
But the anniversary of the 1968 slaying of the civil rights icon at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis is a painful reminder of just how fragile that dream remains.
"You know it [an assassination of Mr Obama] can happen," the Reverend Billy Kyles, 73, who spent the last hour of Dr King's life with him, told The Daily Telegraph. advertisement
"It has happened for blacks who have done less than get that close to the presidency.
"The closer he [Mr Obama] gets to it, we think in many cases that it's more likely that it's going to happen."