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John White attends Hauppauge MLK Day event

John White (right), his son Aaron and his

Photo credit: James Carbone | John White (right), his son Aaron and his wife Sonia attend the First Baptist Church of Riverhead's 26th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast at the Hyatt Regency Wind Watch Hotel in Hauppauge. (January 17, 2011)

The Rev. Calvin O. Butts, president of SUNY Old Westbury, Monday urged a Martin Luther King Day audience that included some of Suffolk's top politicians to carry on the slain civil rights leader's dream for a "rebirth" of the nation.

Among those in the crowd of more than 700 at the event in Hauppauge was John White, the Miller Place man whose 2-4-year sentence for the racially charged killing...

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