Clarence B Jones, who helped MLK write ‘I have a dream’ speech, dies at 95

Clarence B Jones, a former speechwriter and confidante of Martin Luther King who helped pen his famous “I have a dream” speech, has died. He was 95. Jones died on Friday at a senior living community in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Cupertino, according to a statement released by family members, who were at his side. “Our father lived a life of conscience,” the Jones family said. “He believed, until his final days, that an idea [is] more powerful than the march of any army. …