Thanks rightwingintelligentsia.
- death notice [2015 NY Times]
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Posted on 01/16/2023 3:22:56 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
The day was September 20, 1958. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., then 29, was in a Harlem department store, signing copies of Stride Toward Freedom, his account of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott which he led.
He was suddenly approached by a 42-year-old well-dressed woman, who asked him:
“Are you Martin Luther King?”
“Yes,” King replied, without looking up from where he was signing his book.
The stylishly dressed woman, who would later be identified as Izola Ware Curry, said: “I’ve been looking for you for five years,” and plunged a 7-inch, ivory-handled steel letter opener into King’s chest.
Curry had in her bra a loaded 25-calibre automatic pistol, which she wanted to use but was stopped before she could get to it, reported the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
She did not attempt to run but rather indicated: “I’ve been after him for six years.
“I’m glad I done it (sic).”
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
The doctors later reiterated that if King had sneezed, he would have died. Curry, the would-be assassin, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she spent the rest of her life in mental institutions.The Georgia native, at the time of the incident, had an IQ of about 70 and was found not fit to stand trial, reported the Journal-Constitution.
Before stabbing King, the mentally disturbed woman had, for many years, had delusions that the NAACP was a Communist front and that members were persecuting her and preventing her from finding a stable job. As years passed, King became the centre of those delusions, according to The Times.
A psychiatric report, obtained in 2014, said Curry “believes she has been under constant surveillance and all her movements are known to the NAACP and Dr. King. She has feared for her life and for the past year and has been carrying a gun to protect herself against possible assault.”
At the age of 98, after spending the rest of her life in psychiatric facilities, she passed away on March 7, 2015, in a nursing home in Queens.
Now an IQ of 70 is a leader in so many communities.
Also interesting that his would-be assassin spent the rest of her life (just shy of 57 years) in a mental institution. Today, she would be out in less than 57 minutes.
He WAS a communist. Now “re-imagined” as a national hero.
Only because the attempted killer wasn’t a honkie.
Yes, there is one, with an IQ of that or less, who lives in Montecito and has a Netflix series.
I don’t remember this but now that I do know about it I’m traumatized.
I demand reparations.
But saying he supported communism? Nope. Here's a letter he wrote saying a Christian can't be a communist: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/can-a-christian-be-a-communist/. MLKJr was also on good relations with VP Nixon, who's main claim to fame at the time was taking down communist Alger Hiss -- hard to imagine communist supporters having good feelings for Nixon. Basically the only link we have with MLKJr and the Communist Party comes from Kennedy's FBI -- if that's worth anything.
We do have on record MLKSr being a loud supporter of "the party of Lincoln". That changed only after the Dims put MLKJr in jail in Birmingham and MLKSr begged President Kennedy to get his son released. Only after that did MLKSr say he supported Dims (perhaps as part of a shakedown agreement by JFK).
She probably was a FBI asset.
bkmk
WOW! Never heard about this!
Delusion? Umm...🤔
“She probably was a FBI asset. ”
I wouldn’t doubt that for a second. J. Edger Hoover wanted MLK dead.
Ivory handled? That’s distinctively a pecularisticly choice of weapon decor for this occasion? I wonder who did the (pointing this do)?
“had delusions that the NAACP was a Communist front”
One of the founders of the NAACP, W.E.B. Du Bois was a communist. He joined the Communist Party in 1927.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/from-the-peoples-world-archives-w-e-b-dubois-joins-the-communist-party/
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