And it's fitting that we are commemorating the life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King with an evening of song. (Applause.) Because songs played, as all of you know, an important part in the civil rights movement that he led.

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Later that evening, after Rachel Martin had gone shopping, he went to check on the infant.

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Zimmerman said in the audio interviews that he was driving to the grocery store that evening when he saw Martin walking in his neighborhood.

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When he spotted Mr Martin while out driving on a rainy evening, he called the police from his car.

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At one point during the evening, then-Archbishop Dolan leaned over to Father Martin and grabbed his arm.

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Although details of the evening shooting remain murky, what is known is that Martin, an African-American, ventured out from his father's fiancee's home in Sanford to a nearby convenience store, where he bought a bag of Skittles and an Arizona Ice Tea.

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Now, while there are too many Irish Americans to acknowledge by name here tonight, I do want to thank Martin O'Malley and his band for rocking the White House for the evening.

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Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump told CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" on Thursday evening that the question of Zimmerman's attitudes on race was not pertinent.

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Martin's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, were joined by actor Jamie Foxx and a crowd of about 200 people on Tuesday evening in Manhattan's Union Square Park.

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