Sam Francis will then emerge, along with Senator Jesse Helms and a handful of other brave men, as a hero who tried to defend his country from becoming a laughing stock. Sam was key to the valiant resistance that was mounted. Personally, I will always treasure the wonderful remark he made to visiting Russian legislators, but history is likely to see the MLK battle as Sam’s finest moment. We archive his account here, and the famous Jesse Helms speech, to which he contributed so much, here.
