Inside the friendship between MLK Jr. and the surgeon who saved him

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Middle-aged and neatly dressed, Izola Curry did not have the cut of an assassin. But that’s what made it all the more shocking when, on Sept. 20, 1958, the mentally ill woman produced from her handbag a 7-inch steel letter opener — and plunged it into Martin Luther King Jr.’s chest at a Manhattan signing...

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