As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives an oration before a full auditorium at the University of Michigan in 1962, young Douglas Peacock, who invited King to campus, sits behind him bespectacled and dressed sharply in a suit. Three years later, Peacock's draft number came up and he was sent to Vietnam where he became a Green Beret medic; six years after the reverend's visit, just days after he returned home, King was assassinated in Memphis. Why does Peacock relate to grizzly bears and want to defend them from traumatic treatment by people? Because he knows what the human species is capable of and wants to preserve these creatures who live in the same wild places that gave him solace after the war. Photo courtesy Doug Peacock
As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives an oration before a full auditorium at the University of Michigan in 1962, young Douglas Peacock, who invited King to campus, sits behind him bespectacled and dressed sharply in a suit. Three years later, Peacock's draft number came up and he was sent to Vietnam where he became a Green Beret medic; six years after the reverend's visit, just days after he returned home, King was assassinated in Memphis. Why does Peacock relate to grizzly bears and want to defend them from traumatic treatment by people? Because he knows what the human species is capable of and wants to preserve these creatures who live in the same wild places that gave him solace after the war. Photo courtesy Doug Peacock