martin luther king jr: NY celebrates Martin Luther King Jr and Pres Obama's Inauguration
- 01/21/13 12:08 AM
Today is Martin Luther King Day and President Obama's second term inauguration. A letter opener may have changed history. Martin Luther King Jr. would have died long before the “I Have a Dream” speech if the woman who attacked him in a Harlem department store in 1958 had been armed with an automatic pistol instead of the sharpened letter opener she plunged into his chest. A NYPD officer stopped a panicked onlooker who was reaching to pull it from King's chest. The NYPD officer told King not to cough or sneeze or even speak as they lifted him onto a
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