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For a generation of Americans, Jesse Jackson was a link to the past, an aid to Martin Luther King, present during King's assassination.

Jackson also was very much present, mounting campaigns for the presidency in the 1980s.

Jackson ran in 1984 and again in 1988, calling his movement the Rainbow Coalition.

And he sometimes courted controversy.

People questioned his account of the King assassination.

And in 2008, when Barack Obama was running for president, Jesse Jackson came on NPR to apologize for a crude remark about him.

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Laura Washington covered him.

He was aggressive and shameless about jumping in front of the microphone.

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