Bill Hogan recalls ‘precious’ chats with mentor Martin Luther King

Bill ‘Dady’ Hogan, a 73-year-old retired cheesemaker, often thinks of Martin Luther King. 

Born in Rochester in New York State, Bill first saw Dr King at the march on Washington and later, just two days after the assassination of president John F Kennedy, he found himself working in Dr King’s office in Atlanta, Georgia.

It was the start of a heady phase in his life which included being jailed in Atlanta having been on a protest and working in a crucible where he shared a number of personal conversations with one of the greatest orators and campaigners of modern times.