He called downstairs to his wife, who was on the phone. “Corrie, I just heard that Kennedy has been shot, maybe killed.” She joined him in front of the TV, and together they awaited more news. “While we were waiting and sitting,” Coretta later recalled, Martin said, “Oh, I hope that he will live, this is just terrible. I think if he lives, if he pulls through this, it will help him to understand better what we go through.” Then came the news that Kennedy was dead. King was quiet for a few moments, Coretta remembered, “but finally he said, ‘This is what is going to happen to me. This is such a
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