King's Last March Airs Monday at Noon

KIOS | By Mike Jacobs

Published January 17, 2019 at 2:54 PM CST

KIOS celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday January 21 at noon with King's Last March, a one-hour documentary.

The program traces the final year of King's life and the personal, psychological and philosophical challenges he faced. King's stance against the Vietnam War, fending off critics inside and outside the civil rights movement and his efforts to gain support for his Poor People's Campaign are examined and offer a complex view of a man during a period that has not been the focus of significant public attention in recent years.

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Mike Jacobs

Mike Jacobs has been with KIOS since 1988 while attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Mike began his career at KIOS working weekends acting as local host for NPR’s Weekend Edition. He also hosted Morning Edition from 1990-1996. Mike began hosting the weekly blues program “Blues in the Afternoon” in October 1994 and took on the responsibilities of jazz programming and maintaining the music library in 1996. He has held the position of Music Director since 2002. In addition to hosting “Jazz in the Afternoon” on Wednesdays and Thursdays, Mike also helps with assembling music for “Jazz From Studio One” hosted by the advanced radio students at the Omaha Public Schools Career Center. Mike is an Omaha native and graduated from Technical High School in 1984.

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