The N.Y. Times has the story of the death of a New York nightclub owner and former city police officer, Al Howard, who died of Coronavirus last month at the age of 93.
It happened at a New York City Department store where Dr. King was signing copies of his book about the Montgomery bus boycott on September 20, 1958. A mentally ill woman approached King and without warning, stabbed him in the chest with a letter opener.
Officer Howard was on patrol and responded to the police radio call, where he immediately worried about removing the letter opener:
“I said, ‘Take me to a telephone,’” Mr. Howard recounted to Mr. Miller. “I called Harlem Hospital. I said: ‘Send an ambulance. I have this man who’s got a knife sticking out of his chest. What do we do?’ The doctor came on the phone and said: ‘Don’t take it out. We’ll send an ambulance right away.’”
They did, and King's life was saved. The rest as they say...was history.
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