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dunno if the Sam Jackson one is true or not

It took me less than a minute to find this, simply by looking at the citations on his Wikipedia page.

On April 4, 1968, Dr. King was murdered in Memphis. His body was brought to Atlanta to lie in state at Spelman College, the woman’s school adjacent to Morehouse. Jackson attended the funeral in Atlanta and then flew to Memphis to join a protest march—experiences that politically radicalized him.“I was angry about the assassination,” he recalled, “but I wasn’t shocked by it. I knew that change was going to take something different—not sit-ins, not peaceful coexistence.”In 1969, Jackson and other radical students held members of the Morehouse College board of trustees hostage on campus, demanding reform in the school’s curriculum and governance. The college eventually agreed to change, but Jackson was expelled. He stayed on for the summer in Atlanta, where he got to know Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown and others in the Black Power movement. “I was in that radical faction,” Jackson said. “We were buying guns, getting ready for armed struggle. “All of a sudden,” he said proudly, “I felt I had a voice. I was somebody. I could make a difference. “But then one day,” he added quietly, “my mom showed up and put me on a plane to L.A. She said, ‘Do not come back to Atlanta.’ The FBI had been to the house and told her that if I didn’t get out of Atlanta, there was a good possibility I’d be dead within a year. She freaked out.”

So... embellished but based in truth.