M.L. told her that Daddy King was a frequent womanizer. Dobbs had already heard the rumors. M.L. said he was worried that he would someday wind up like his father, unable to resist the temptation of adultery. The subject arose every day M.L. and Dobbs were together that summer. “It obsessed him,” she said. The subject arose as often as it did in part because young King and Dobbs were talking to ministers who were Daddy King’s peers, men who whispered about Daddy King’s reputation as an adulterer. “There was a great deal of gossip about Reverend King,” Dobbs recalled.
