Gandhi: “Men say I am a saint losing myself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to be a saint.”

Meanwhile, the political side of the FBI brazenly suggested to President Johnson that Stokely Carmichael or Rap Brown ordered King killed, and high FBI officials planted a malicious story that the family of King’s Los Angeles mistress had arranged the murder—going so far as to arrange a confrontation with the couple by columnist Jack Anderson.

no will and a net worth less than $6,000—his estate’s largest asset being a disputed bequest of $12,351.36 from the eccentric poet and essayist Dorothy Parker. In 1970, Alabama

Jackson called up to King: “Doc, you remember Ben Branch?” He said Breadbasket’s lead saxophonist and song leader was a native of Memphis. “Oh yes, he’s my man,” said King. “How are you, Ben?” Branch waved. King recalled his signature number from Chicago. “Ben, make sure you play ‘Precious Lord, Take My Hand,’ in the meeting tonight,” he called

God’s sake, don’t bother me!” His fury echoed in the conference room.

“He criticized three members of the staff with his eloquence. And believe me, that’s murder. And was very negative.” King said Young had given in to doubt, Bevel to brains, and Jackson to ambition. He said they had forgotten the simple truths of witness. He said the movement had made them, and now they were using the movement to promote themselves.

After six minutes, Heschel called out—“Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani?”—and a Catholic bishop gave a terse benediction for silent departure: “Let us go in peace. Amen.” News stories translated Heschel into English—“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”—pointing out that the Aramaic cry of Jesus in Mark’s Crucifixion story was in turn a quote

focus on a slight man in a checkered shirt, squinting with his hands bound behind, then pulled out a pistol and shot him point-blank in the head. After photographs and film of the random street execution circled the world on Thursday, the third day of the Tet offensive, poll measurements recorded the most decisive single drop in American support

Battles from the offensive would stretch well past Tet—killing nearly four thousand American and six thousand South Vietnamese soldiers, plus an estimated 58,000 Communist soldiers and 14,000 civilians.