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...Coretta King marched through the streets of Atlanta last week, honoring the 47th birthday of her slain husband by leading a band of protesters demanding jobs for the unemployed. Before he died, Martin Luther King Jr. had been immersed in planning a Poor People's Campaign with the same goal. Then came the sniper's shot that killed him in Memphis on April 4, 1968, the two-month pursuit of his killer, and the swift conviction of a smirking, small-time thief named James Earl Ray. Yet nearly eight years later, the widespread feeling still persists that King...
...anonymously sent to King's wife Coretta a tape of some bedroom conversations that had been secretly recorded while King was traveling. Such a tape was a prized possession of Hoover's, and he once had it played for Lyndon Johnson, who in turn entertained reporters with his version of King's extramarital conquests...
...mail of many people not on the list was also scrutinized. Among them: Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Senator Edward Kennedy, Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Martin Luther King, his widow Coretta and Jay Rockefeller, a likely Democratic candidate for Governor of West Virginia. Church had a personal quarrel with the CIA because it had opened a letter that he wrote to his mother-in-law in Boise, Idaho, while he was touring Russia in 1971. Also routinely monitored was mail to or from Harvard University and the Ford and Rockefeller foundations...
...FIRST speaker selected by the seniors themselves--she had expressed her happiness that the choice was the students', not the administration's--was Coretta King. By all accounts, King gave a fine speech, praising student protest and denouncing the Vietnam war. Unfortunately, she was there as a replacement for her husband, who had been shot and killed in Memphis two months earlier...
...Coretta Scott King Atlanta...