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The protagonist in this self titled autobiography Martin Luther King, junior is Martin Luther King Jr. himself. In this crack Mr. King was at a book signing in a Harlem department store. As he was autographing a copy of his book about the capital of Alabama bus ostracize titled Stride toward Freedom he was approached by the antagonist of this scene an obviously demented black woman later to be judged as legally insane, Mrs. Izola Ware Curry. On Saturday September 20, 1958 Mrs. Curry approached Mr. King and asked, are you Martin Luther King? Mr. King replied Yes, and she commenced to stab him in the chest with a shave sharp letter opener.Martin Luther King, Jr. was hotfoot to Harlem Hospital by ambulance where he would lay for four hours while he was being prepped for the removal of the keen-edged knife. eld after surgery Dr. Maynard, the chief of the surgeons, informed Mr. King that the razor pencil lead of the letter opener was touching his aorta requiring them to open his chest to remove it. With this rumourmonger to follow, If you had sneezed during all those hours of waiting your aorta would have been punctured and you would have dr ingested in your own blood. said Dr. Maynard.If this had actually been the one of Dr. Kings last age it would have meant that the world would have been deprived of a ten year, non-violent consort that did in fact change society for the better. A little slight than a year after his near fatal stabbing he and his family would embark upon a journey to India accompanied by Dr. D.L. Reddick. There he meet Ghandi himself giving him newfangled prospective on non-violent campaigns.On a Humid Saturday Afternoon on September 20, 1958, Dr. King sat in a Harlem Department store signing copies of his book on the Montgomery bus boycott entitled Stride Toward Freedom. Amidst all the smiles and bide of the crowd derived an obviously deranged woman. She approached Dr. King and inquired,Are you Martin Luther King? As Dr. King Repl ied, Yes She stabbed him in the chest with a letter opener. Dr. King was rushed to the Harlem hospital by ambulance where he was immediately prepped and admitted to the surgery ward. After hours on the operating table the head surgeon Dr. Maynard, had the saturnine duty of congress the King family that the totality of effort shown by he an his team were but able to slow Dr.