As tributes pour in for the American civil rights leader, Joe Murphy recalls a misjudged interview – and how a frail stranger showed the US politician’s fight for freedom resonated far beyond the US A s the tributes pour in for Jesse Jackson, who died aged 84 , I was reminded of how a chance encounter with a frail and elderly man to teach me just how important the American civil rights leader was to the lives of millions of Britons. It happened in London’s Leicester Square – which, for reasons