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Chief Architect Dr. Ed. Jackson
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The Illinois Storytellers series brings you first-person pieces from distinctive Illinois voices. Ed Jackson, Jr. (FAA ’73), who spent fifteen years as chief architect for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, shares insights into how he and his team brought the memorial from the original vision to its permanent place on the National Mall. Jackson is the president of ArchD Consulting and is currently working on his memoirs.
In my initial conversations with the sculptor of record, Master Lei YiXin, I stressed the importance of designing the mountain first,
then slicing the mountain into three pieces. The backside of the Stone of Hope should be a continuation of the lines of the Mountain
of Despair only broken as a result of the separation. He pulled Dr. King out of stone.
