*Do you recall we almost lost Dr. Martin Luther King because he was stabbed by a woman at a book signing in 1958? Well that woman, Izola Ware Curry, died on Saturday at the age of 98.
Dr. King’s injuries were so close to his aorta that doctors told him, if he sneezed, he could have died. King would refer to the incident years later saying, “I’m so happy that I didn’t sneeze.”
Had Curry lived, she who would have turned 99 in June. Diagnosed criminally insane after she stabbed the civil rights activist, Curry has lived in a series of homes after her release from the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, reports The Smoking Gun.
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