Winfrey releases footage of recent interview in which congressman says: ‘I tried to do what was right, fair and just’
Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey have led tributes from across US society to the civil rights leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis, who died on Friday evening at the age of 80.
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