A lesser-known attack on Martin Luther King, Jr. occurred at a book signing in Harlem on September 20th, 1958, almost a decade before his assassination. At Blumstein’s Department Store, located at 230 W. 125th Street, the 29-year old Dr. King was stabbed on the upper left of his chest with a letter opener that had a 7-inch blade. The woman who performed the deed who was not from the line waiting to have their book signed, and also had a .25 caliber automatic pistol hidden in her dress. Dr. King was operated on successfully at Harlem Hospital, where surgeon Dr. Aubre de Lambert Maynard noted that the letter opener ”had impinged on the aorta.” Dr. W.V. Cordice, another surgeon who worked on Dr. King that day, said in the above 2012 video, “If the [stabbing] had been an inch in either direction, it would have killed him straight away.” The attacker was deemed… Read More