Looking For.....MLK Stabbing Picture.... Mentioned in "God is Not Great" by Hitchens

[masmdu]

I've googled to no avail.

Hitchens mentions MLK "was once photographed in a bookstore waiting calmly for a physician while the knife of a maniac was sticking straight out of his chest"

I am looking for this picture.

Anybody? Thanks

[masmdu]

1. anybody.....?

[anigbrowl]

2. Don't know about the photo, but:

On a Saturday afternoon in 1958, I sat in a Harlem department store, surrounded by hundreds of people. I was autographing copies of Stride Toward Freedom, my book about the Montgomery bus boycott. And while sitting there, a demented black woman came up. The only question I heard from her was, "Are you Martin Luther King?" I was looking down writing, and I said "Yes." And the next minute, I felt something sharp plunge forcefully into my chest. Before I knew it, I had been stabbed with a letter opener by a woman who would later be judged insane, Mrs. Izola Ware Curry.

Rushed by ambulance to Harlem Hospital, I lay in a bed for hours while preparations were made to remove the keen-edged knife from my body. Days later, when I was well enough to talk with Dr. Aubrey Maynard, the chief of the surgeons who performed the delicate, dangerous operation, I learned the reason for the long delay that preceded surgery. He told me that the razor tip of the instrument had been touching my aorta and that my whole chest had to be opened to extract it.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/autobiography/chp_12.htm

Hitchens is severely overrated, even though I'm an atheist.