Before his demise in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. survived a close shave with death years earlier. In the course of a public signing for his book, titled “Stride Toward Freedom”, King Luther was stabbed in the chest by a woman named Izola Ware Curry. According to the Journal-Constitution of Atlanta, Curry held a seven-inch long metal letter opener and struck it through Luther’s chest. He was just 29 years old at that time and was utterly defenceless. Curry was a modest 42-year-old African American woman, according to sources. This left her totally inconspicuous among the crowd of King’s followers. Although he survived the incident, the stabbing could have very easily turned fatal. He was just an inch away from death.”
Sadly, ten years later, King was shot and killed on the balcony of his hotel room at 39 years of age.
