Jackson may have been born in South Carolina, but he lived most of his life as a Chicago one.

Reverend Jackson appeared here on W T Tw and Chicago tonight, dozens of times we thought we'd take a look back at some of his most memorable appearances here spanning 5 decades.

We start with his visit on W T Tw marking Mayor Richard J Daily's death in 1976. talking about how he and Dr Martin Luther King interacted with daily when they came to Chicago in the Mid 60's.

>> Reverend Jackson, I was covering city hall back in 1966.

Stand up to minus the King's efforts Slams and seemed to in the press room that he really met his match in daily because this was his first foray into the north.

Really in the south.

You met belligerence and police and dogs and everything else.

But Doctor King came Chicago.

pleasantness ended up with a good big press conference in the mayor's office.

The mayor saying wonderful things about Doctor King and promising programs.

And that's just about the last we have heard of the effort.

Would you Well, not example, of the said that.

>> It was impossible to amass a massive movement, everybody everywhere it amassed a massive movement that and the that the racism is blatant and the matter was most you can never dry reaction him.

But he has a close.

It's been a bowled Parma.

It areas group that was formed.

The blacks as they tried to expand bottom of that movement grew to 2 massive proportions.

Now we finally came to some kind but agreement and now the and a broad cross section of citizens agreed to implement that housing program.

did not deliver.

That is not so reflection of them.

back to King's ability to succeed the movement has it good.

the enough forces in 6 to 6 even in 76 to resist the expansion of black people in the city.

>> Reverend Jackson, over the last few years, it seems that your ideas have become a lot less radical and more establishment Orient hated as revenge actions.

Power base diminished over the last 5.

You well as it possibly increased.

>> Well, I was that support base has increased, but the issues of chains, for example, with the fighting 10 years ago, fall access to public accommodations and a nod to to be able to use hotels, motels, public parks and libras.

We were willing to sit in the weighed in to go to jail, to do whatever we had to do.

But now one does not have to use that tactic to use Holiday Inn.

One center needs to have money credit caught.

We willing to go south and and lives and use those same techniques to get the right to vote.

But now that we have the right to vote 800,000 blacks and the eligible to vote on the floor than 25,000 registered.

And so the issue a fundamental shift.

It the one about problems now, perhaps so we have into thinking leaders.

And not enough feeling leaders.

And by that, I mean, that thing cause.

The board of compassion.

Over a hog.

And yet people who feel also think that must be a great, a sense of humor feeling.

And government judgments.

We cannot as leaders just follow up opinion polls.

We must mold opinion.

You have feelings about this for the city of Chicago.

Well, you know, I say that for the last 2 years is not a lot of racial polarization.

A lot all something when about this, the kind of racial cesspool.

>> In fact, this week for the championship and it's not all white all people come together.

And I think it says a challenge politically it shows that those who want to be Super Bowl champions and that shows until a man of Endeavor, one has to be impressed with the way these guys love each But I learned one thing about your day that I didn't know.

And that is that maybe it's common knowledge.

And I just missed it.

>> I did not realize that you called her husband to tell her that had been shot.

Can you describe that Well, you know about the king and I on the way to Denver.

in the middle that comments and comments that he was shot and my first fact, when I saw he was shot and it was more to the wounded but then called her.

I had the told about their bit.

The called her.

It was very difficult to make.

Something he's been shot in the shoulder this week that you can.

I was from the cushion without saying he'd been hit in the neck, but she says gravity of it.

Many of the things that built up to this moment for her.

She said I will come quickly, but before she could really get moving the forming in the rain national moves.

He was he was dead.

In that moment.

She came onto itself with amazing.

Since the power of some of the responses to build pick up where he get.

The She emerged from that situation, organize a very tasteful global sea level.

live celebration live.

The demonstration put the 1000 people and Memphis, Tennessee GOP's ruckus.

That built the king.

Some of resources flow, then.

And then the king holiday.

I mean, she really stop marching.

And really she worked.

Through the 8 years after his death almost long as he lived.

She was fundamentally a freedom fighter.

amazing sense of step respect.

Why the companion as well activists.

What do you make of his remarks and controversy over Senator Obama's remarks regarding?

>> His willingness, his quote, willingness to meet with leaders of rogue nations and his willingness to attack Pakistan, areas of Pakistan, where al Qaeda might be hiding you every time I was blessed to bring summer come home, a foreign jail have brought home from Syria minute.

The SOT.

>> comes home from Cuba.

Castro, Americans home from Iraq with Saddam Hussein meeting with him.

We'll look at home most of it know how you break the cycle.

All the cool one issue within 2, in fact, engage in the grips of diplomacy.

And so I think that walls have not worked all hot, rather can cool was not working.

So someone must have thought it just as a Nixon went to China just as Reagan challenged the Berlin Wall.

We did there come a bold.

This it seems to me.

Informal.

We are strong enough to have strong diplomacy backed up by military, not military backed up by hot rhetoric that ends up in a lot of people kill unnecessarily.

Last question.

>> You said in the 1984, Democratic Convention speech as I develop and serve the patients.

God is not finished with me yet.

What do you think?

Some store?

>> Well, I'm going this more than ever because doing this here and I've been able to to grow and develop and meet new friends and 2 to be in the position to make an even greater impact.

And I want to do just that.

It's clear to me that was a part of my growth process.

And I'm I'm alive and well.

That is like this hope.

Well, those told us they've been a possibility and I intend to be a major factor in that.

The National Economic Justice.

In peace and human rights.

And getting this generation to say no to drugs.

>> The Reverend Jesse Jackson on W T Tw over the years.