The introduction was awkward as it should be annoucing something sad and important to this audience. At this point in his speech I thought he used pauses very effecfively as if to give the audience and himself time to digest what he had just told them. It did not seem awkward as the pauses later in the content part of speech did. Introduction could have probably been longer to be more effective. He quickly got into the content of his speech and used this news to relay how he sees the country and the people moving on like King would have wanted us to. Stating King preached love, compassion and justice not hatred, violence and revenge. That is how he used audience segmentation to his advantage in the speech this audience relates to King tremendously
