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On the doorstep of MLK 50,

we are taking a look back at the
deaths

of Martin Luther King Jr.

and his brother Alfred Daniel
King.

While the life of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.

is well documented,

a spiritual leader and public
negotiator

for the 1960s civil rights
movement,

little is known about his
brother AD King,

who apparently, depressed with
grief,

drank himself to death and
drowned in his own swimming
pool,

or at least that's the
story we've come to know.

Was his death an accident
or murder? I'm Ed Gordon.

We'll tackle that question on
this edition

of "Unsolved History: Life of a
King."

On January 6th, 2018,

the family gathered for the
burial

of Isaac Newton Farris Sr.,

founding member of the King
Center

and the brother-in-law
of Martin Luther King Jr.

and Alfred Daniel King.

My mother's generation
in her family was robbed.

You all know 1968, Uncle
ML's assassination.

One year later, not as well
known, her other brother,

Uncle AD, was taken from us,
and he was taken from us.

We don't talk about it much,
but he was taken from us.

Moments Following the
funeral,

we were able to sit down
with AD's oldest daughter,

Alveda King, who is still
haunted by her father's death.

So we kind of expected that
they could go at any time,

and I believe Daddy
and Uncle ML knew that.

Like anybody, I would
like to live a long life.

Longevity has its place,

but I'm not concerned about that
now.

I just wanna do God's will.

And he's allowed me to
go up to the mountain,

and I've looked over, and
I've seen the Promised Land.

I may not get there with you,

but I want you to know the night

that we as will get to the
Promised Land!

In 2018 and moving forward
into the next decades

and generations for the young
people, truth has to be told,

and as painful as truth can
be, when we have the answers,

then we know how to move
forward.

From a young age,

the King brothers were groomed
for ministry and leadership

by their father, Martin Luther
King Sr.,

and their grandfather
Alfred Daniel Williams,

who AD was named after.

Growing up, the two brothers
were always side by side,

even in Memphis on April 4th,
1968,

the day of Martin Luther
King Jr.'s assassination.

The last afternoon
before Dr. King was killed,

he and AD were having a
fish luncheon together.

So we were all clowning
and playing around,

and it was one of the happiest
times in the movement for me

because they started
beating me up with a pillow,

and I made the mistake of
throwing the pillow back at 'em,

and then everybody just got the
pillows

and piled on top of me
in between the two beds

in the Lorraine Motel.

But it was just a fun time.

And then somebody knocked
on the door and said,

"You know, you all are due
for dinner at six o'clock,"

and Martin went upstairs
to put on his shirt

and tie to go to dinner,

and next thing we knew,
a shot was ringing out.

Reverend AD was
in the room directly

below Martin Luther King, Jr.
when the fatal shot went off.

My husband was there, right
there in Memphis, Tennessee,

right there right by his
side as he always was.

He was right there near
his side, and the next day,

you had all of these
figures was mentioned.

Everybody there was there but
him.

Now, why, you know?

How could you overlook his
brother, his only brother?

How could you call everybody
else's name, everybody,

and overlook his only brother?

That is very painful to me,
and I would imagine this,

you know, was very painful for
him.

In the spring of 1965, at that
time,

at a meeting of the executive
board in Baltimore, Maryland,

Dr. King and the members of
the board unanimously agreed

that in the event of Dr. King's
death,

Dr. Abernathy would become the
president.

There was speculation
that AD

might become president of the
SCLC.

However, AD made no
attempts to assume the role,

instead focusing on finding the
truth

about the assassination of his
brother.

Have you gentleman
had any progress report

or any late information on
the search for the assassin?

No, nothing more than what
we have read in the papers.

AD was determined to get to
the bottom

of who killed his brother.

He knew more than perhaps
he should've known

about his brother's
death and was determined

to try to keep the issue alive,

and maybe he was simply too
close

to the target and he was too
much online.

July 21st, 1969,

Alfred Daniel King
would be discovered dead

in his own swimming pool.

His daughter Alveda remembers
seeing him the night before.

When I came home,

my young husband and I
had been out to dinner,

and we walked up on the
porch, and, at that time,

the windows were open,
the screens were there,

but the windows were up
to let the breeze in.

And I heard my father on
the phone, and he says,

"I don't care what you
say, you killed my brother,

and I'm not gonna rest
until that is proven."

So we went on into the house and
I said,

"Daddy, what was that?

Who was that?"

"Oh baby, don't worry about
it. We'll talk again later."

And that was the last
conversation I had with my dad.

With Martin's assassination

rocking the civil rights
movement to its core,

many did not accept
the lone gunman theory,

and no one was more interested
in discovering the truth

than Martin's brother AD.

Now, 50 years later, we
will reexamine the journey

of these two brothers and the
mysterious death of AD King.

Was it an unfortunate accident

or a murder intended to obstruct
justice?

More "Unsolved History: Life
of a King" when we return.

He said, "They tried
to choke me to death

in that jail with my neck tie."

I said, "Oh, ML," I said,

"I'm so glad that they did
not choke you to death,"

I said, "because we'd have so
great loss."

Welcome back to "Unsolved
History: Life of a King."

When we left our story, it was
1968,

just after Martin Luther King
Jr.

was assassinated in Memphis.

But what led to that
faithful moment started long

before the trip to Tennessee,

long before the nation knew the
King name.

Martin and Alfred were born
into a family with a legacy

of leadership in the
advancement of colored people.

January 15th, 1929,

Martin Luther King Jr. is
born in Atlanta, Georgia.

Just one year later, July 30th,
1930,

his brother Alfred Daniel
Williams King is born.

The two boys spent their early
years

in the now historic family
home at 501 Auburn Avenue

with their oldest sister,
Christine.

Well, we had the rather normal
childhood

like sisters and brothers.

We stayed together, played
together,

got into trouble together.

AD and I met in junior
high at David T. Howard.

He probably was recognized more.

His daddy was a very famous
minister,

you know, at that time.

We just do what, you know,

teenage kids would do at that
age.

Well, we used to like the
girl, used to run at the girl.

So we met at the YWCA party
when we was like 12 and 13.

Now I think it was 1947 when
my mom and I joined the church.

So at that time, we sort of, you
know,

developed a serious
relationship, and we became,

you know, like serious
girlfriend and boyfriend.

February 25th, 1948,

Martin is ordained at
Ebenezer Baptist Church just

before graduating from Morehouse
College.

Meanwhile, AD, still attending
Morehouse,

discovers his longtime
girlfriend, Naomi Barber,

is pregnant with their first
child.

So we went and had a
talk with Daddy King.

He said, "There will be no
abortion.

There won't be none of that."

He said, "I know you in school.

It is your first year in
college, and AD is in college,"

he said, "but it won't be none
of that."

He said, "We gonna have this
baby."

Naomi and AD would
marry on June 17th, 1950,

and their daughter was born
just seven months later,

the first of five children.
I was the oldest of five,

the first born in my generation,

and so Daddy, he was a great
father.

He was just a great dad
and very protective,

a wonderful provider.
September 1st, 1954,

Martin Luther King Jr. and
Coretta Scott King marry

and move to Montgomery, Alabama,

just one year before the
historic Montgomery bus boycott.

To me, it happened so fast
when the movement started.

I can remember when it started
in '55.

AD and the family visited
Martin

after he was arrested in
Montgomery.

And he said, "You know
what?" I said, "What?"

You know what he said?

"They tried to choke me to
death with my neck tie."

I said, "What'd you say?"

He said, "They tried to choke me
to death

in that jail with my neck tie."

I said, "Oh, ML," I said,

"I'm so glad that they did
not choke you to death,"

I said, "because we'd
have such a great loss.

You know, I just don't even
wanna think about that."

So I think, in that moment,

that's when I begin to
have my first thoughts

about civil rights
movement and where we go.

In 1959, AD graduates
from Morehouse College

and finally embraces the
ministry and the movement,

even knowing the danger
involved.

The student movement here in
Atlanta

was well integrated with SCLC,

probably more so than
anywhere else in the country.

But AD was the lead of the
group, and there were five of
us.

I think all everybody
was student except AD,

but one of the rules, of course,

is that you don't never
take any weapons with you.

So when we were arrested, he
said, "Get rid of everything,"

and I did not get rid of my
little knife

that I used to sharpen pencils.

So when we got to the
prison and they searched us

and they found this
little knife, they said,

"Okay, we gonna put you in the
hole."

The hole was that place where
they put the worst prisoners,

and it was AD, strangely enough,

who had advised us not
to have anything on us.

He's the one that really
pleaded with them not

to put me in the hole, and
they listened and they didn't,

so I ended up going in
with everybody else.

So that was my first
memorable experience with AD.

For years, AD worked
in his brother's shadow

as an organizer and a detail
man.

AD King had as much
commitment,

maybe even more commitment
than his brother Martin.

He was willing to work
with us on the committee.

He was very actively involved.
He was at ITC at the time.

He was on the first sit-in.
He was there on the committee.

He participated, worked
hard, picketed, you name it.

By 1963, AD was
living in Birmingham,

pastoring the First Street
Baptist Church in Ensley,

putting him center stage
for the biggest battle

in the civil rights movement
thus far, Project C.

He was one of about four
preachers that,

along with Fred Shuttlesworth,

invited us to come into
Birmingham.

Out of 400 churches,

there were only about 14
churches that would let us meet,

and his church was one of them.

Ensley also produced a lot
of the high school students

that ended up creating the
movement that changed America.

With Martin's previous
success in Montgomery

with the bus boycott, joining
forces with his brother AD

for Project C in Birmingham
could prove

to be a powerful recipe
for a big national change,

a change that much of the
country

would not be prepared to face,

turning the small city of
Birmingham

to the crime-riddled town of
Bombingham.

More "Unsolved History: Life
of a King" when we return.

He said, "Naomi,
it's too quiet here.

Something is not right."

And he picked up and started
running through the house.

"Get out, get out, it's a bomb."

And when we looked back,

the whole front of the house was
gone.

Welcome back to "Unsolved
History: Life of a King."

It's now spring of 1963.

Martin and the leadership
of the SCLC knew a victory

in Birmingham could
bring a much needed jolt

for the civil rights movement.

They would call the plan
Project C, C for confrontation.

AD King, he was one of
about four preachers that,

along with Fred Shuttlesworth,

invited us to come into
Birmingham.

He went to jail in
Birmingham with his brother.

Seeing AD as one of the
leaders in the movement

by being the brother of my
Luther King Jr.

but really being his own.

It would begin on April
3rd, 1963.

It would build in waves.

First a boycott of downtown
businesses,

then waves of sit-ins at
white-only establishments

to fill the jails, and finally,

non-violent protest
marches on a daily basis.

And it was AD's
members

who basically came the
height of the movement there

in Birmingham because he was
able

to get there and give
leadership.

It was great.

I served here under him
as the finance chairman,

and then I served as the youth
director.

He would get me to stay in the
house

inside while the others
guys guard the house,

but that was in case
if something happened,

I would be able to help
get them out, you know.

My main role was
bonding people outta jail.

I bonded as many over
50 people at one time.

On April 12th,
1963, AD was arrested,

along with his brother
and Ralph Abernathy.

They was determined to get
the Kings out, I know that.

Ensley also produced a lot
of the high school students

that ended up creating the
movement that changed America,

and that was AD's leadership.

The police also
arrested over 600 young people,

but 1,500 more stood in the
shadows,

ready to march the next day.

With the jails filled
and the economy hurting,

Police Chief Bull Connor
used excessive force

to clear the streets.

♪ The only one come

♪ from just holdin' on

♪ A bullet is on its way

♪ And tell the whole world
that I'm comin' home ♪

♪ Someone's gonna need a grave

This would set the
perfect trap

to bring the heavy-handed
reactions

from police face to face
with the national media.

With the United States
under the global spotlight,

President John F. Kennedy
sends in federal negotiators

on May 5th, 1963.

Just five days later,

Martin AD and Fred
Shuttlesworth sign a truce known

as the Birmingham Truce
Agreement.

In exchange for halting the
protests,

white business owners promised
to desegregate their shops,

lunch counters, and drinking
fountains.

Food facilities, lunch
counters, and fitting rooms.

But with this victory

came immediate retaliation.

May the 11th, 1963,

my husband came up to
the front of the home,

and he said to me, he said,
"Naomi, it is too quiet here.

Something is not right."

And he picked her up

and started running through the
house.

"Get out, get out, it's a bomb."

My brother jumps up off the
couch,

and the rest of us were in the
back.

First explosion, the
concussion
knocked out the window.

The concussion was so forceful.

I saw my mom and dad fly by my
bedroom.

The stuff they do on TV ain't
nothing like the real thing.

And we get out of the house,

and then we run out through the
garage.

And when we looked back,
there was a second bomb,

and the whole front of the house
was gone.

That night in the street,
the street, this whole street,

all this area was full of
people,

I mean, in every direction,
and they just came.

I don't know if it flashed on
the news.

I don't know how people found
out so fast.

That same night,

dynamite explosions had
ravished the Gaston Motel,

a black-owned establishment

where Martin Luther King
Jr. had been staying.

Fortunately, he had already
left town and no one was hurt.

There was a man by the
name of Roosevelt Tatum.

He said that there was a
police car parked right

in front of the home over here,

and he said he saw him
toss the first bomb.

And when we got to Avenue H,

one policeman was standing in
the yard

and where he went to
after then, I do not know

when the people started yelling.

And as people were driving
up and down the street,

the people honestly for
a minute began to riot.

They began to pick up stones and
debris

and throw at the cars, and my
dad said,

"We are not violent, do not
retaliate."

May 12th, 1963,

President Kennedy issued a
statement.

Disturbed by the bombings in
Birmingham,

he ordered 3,000 US troops to
encircle the small community

to bring an end to the rioting

and gain some semblance of
peace.

With the battle lines clearly
drawn,

taking the fight for
civil rights to Washington

was the only option left.

More "Unsolved History: Life
of a King" when we return.

The integration of housing,

people could go live where
they want, that was AD's baby,

but Dr. King pulled all
of us into Louisville

to help with that open occupancy
march.

Welcome back to "Unsolved
History: Life of a King."

While the country is dealing

with the aftermath of Project C,

images of young black
children being hosed down

in Birmingham are
flooding the evening news

and the morning papers.

The civil rights movement
gains even more momentum,

leading to the social,
political,

and financial framework for
the March on Washington.

Held on August 28th, 1963,

organized by A. Philip
Randolph and Bayard Rustin.

It sets the stage

for Dr. Martin Luther
King's most famous speech.

The speech would come to be
known

as the "I Have a Dream" speech,

a speech aimed at the
Emancipation Proclamation

signed 100 years earlier in
1863.

He called it, quote, "a bad
check written

to America's black citizens."

And I think this march will go
down

as one of the greatest,

if not the greatest
demonstrations,

for freedom and human dignity

ever held in the United States.

Finally, less than one year
later,

President John F. Kennedy

and the nation's Congress
responded.

Now the time has come from
this nation

to fulfill its promise.

The events in Birmingham and
elsewhere

have so increased the cries for
equality

that no city or state or
legislative body

can prudently choose to ignore
them.

Next week,

I shall ask the Congress of
the United States to act.

Before this proposed
legislation

would be signed into law,

President Kennedy was
assassinated.

The greatest leader of our
time has been struck down

by the foulest deed of our time.

July 2nd, 1964, AD
was by his brother's side

as newly sworn in President
Lyndon Baines Johnson

signs the Civil rights bill
Keeping Kennedy's promise.

We must not approach the
observance

and enforcement of this
law in a vengeful spirit.

Its purpose is not to punish.

Its purpose is not to
divide but to end divisions,

divisions which have lasted all
too long.

1965, AD moves
his family to Louisville,

Kentucky to pastor Zion Baptist
Church.

In 1965, Reverend AD Williams
King,

Dr. King Martin's brother,

he called a meeting of black
preachers, and he invited me,

and that's when he asked us to
organize,

to join SCLC, Southern
Christian, Dr. King's group.

The focus of the new
chapter

of SCLC would be open housing.

I know the housing
efforts that we have here

in the country today, the
integration of housing,

people could go live where
they want, that was AD's baby.

After years of meeting

and negotiating with city
leaders,

AD and members of the
SCLC took to the streets,

protesting day and night

at government official homes and
offices.

But AD started a movement
on open housing in Louisville,

and that movement really
is what set up the Chicagos

to do what they had to
do on the Philadelphias

and the Clevelands.

More "Unsolved History: Life
of a King" when we return.

April 13th, 197,

27 marchers were arrested
for ignoring a court order

against demonstrating after
dark.

In the scuffle,

AD was hit in the eye
with a rock and beaten.

We plan to return
tonight to the south end

and continue our march
nonviolently.

With the story
gaining national attention,

Martin Luther King Jr. and
members

of the SCLC shifted its
resources in support

of the open housing movement in
Kentucky.

Dr. King pulled all of
the staff outta Chicago.

I was in Chicago working on in
the slums,

open housing stuff in Chicago,

but Dr. King pulled all
of us into Louisville

to help with that open occupancy
march

where we was able to get
people that AD had befriended,

like Anne Braden and others
there in Louisville, Kentucky,

whites who basically worked hand
in hand

with us in the southern city.

AD, being a master
strategist,

just needed one big moment

to push the open housing
issue over the top,

and with the Kentucky
Derby fast approaching,

they set their sights
on a major disruption.

Dr. King,
did you come to Louisville

to watch the horses run on
Saturday?

Well, that has to be
determined.

I have not had a chance,
as my brother just said,

to meet with the leadership.

After the Ku Klux Klan
promised

to combat any disruption
of the derby with violence,

the Pegasus Parade
traditionally held the day

before the race was canceled
for the first time in 55 years.

So you're going
ahead with plans for Saturday,

is that right?

This is not good enough to
have you cool things off?

So we are continuing
as we have planned, yes.

In other words,

physically you would intend to
stop the running of the race.

Well, I'm not at liberty to
reveal methods at this time.

The next day with
the National Guard present,

AD and the SCLC opted for
a smaller demonstration

on the day of the derby that
did not disrupt the race.

With the two sides at a
standoff,

the only way forward
was through legislation.

The most important
bill that year was time.

Half the Senate was for
daylight savings time,

and Tom was for daylight savings
time.

The other half was for Central
Time, the rural legislators.

He'd asked me, "How you
gonna vote on time?"

"Tom, I don't care what time it
is."

I said, "You take this roll call
sheet,

and everybody you got committed
to vote

for daylight savings time,

you get 'em to vote for open
housing

when it comes up for a vote."

He said, "What?" I
said, "That's the deal."

He snatched it, went off.

About three hours later, he came
back.

He said, "Here, here it is."

I said, "Now I'm gonna vote
for daylight savings time."

The passage of the
open housing ordinance

in Kentucky sparked other
states to follow suit.

Next, AD, Martin, and the SCLC
set their sights on labor.

Soon they were invited to
Memphis

to help sanitation
workers already on strike.

He was, you know, with my
brother Martin

in Memphis when that tragedy
took place.

Martin Luther King Jr.

was assassinated April 4th,
1968.

He was only 39 years old.

Certainly I am sad, saddened
by it, but on the other hand,

I am very proud of what they did

because they stood up for
what they believed in,

regardless of the outcome.

The nation reacted
quickly to the assassination

of MLK and riots swept the
United States.

As tension swelled,

the newly sworn in
President Lyndon B. Johnson

faced some perilous choices,

as did Martin's brother AD King,

and those choices may have
led him to his own demise.

More "Unsolved History: Life
of a King" when we return.

He knew more than
perhaps he should've known

about his brother's death.
He knew what could be ahead,

but it never made him stop.

Welcome back to "Unsolved
History: Life of a King."

After Martin's assassination
at the Lorraine Motel,

there was a massive public
outcry,

angry protests, tears, and
riots.

The newly sworn in President LBJ
reacted

to the black community by
exercising his political
capital,

urging Congress to pass
the Fair Housing Act.

I signed a message to the
Congress.

That message called for
the enactment, and I quote,

"of the first effective federal
law

against discrimination in the
sale

and the rental of housing in
the United States of America."

If civil rights and voting
rights

were Martin Luther King's
legacy,

housing rights would be the
legacy of Alfred Daniel King.

Apparent victory for
the Civil rights movement

while Martin's killer still
roamed free.

June 8th, 1968, James Earl Rey
is captured

in London after two months on
the run.

How could James Earl Ray,
who was an itinerant crook,

never had much money,
could arrange to kill King

and then somehow or
another have the resources

to get outta Memphis, get into
Canada,

all the way over to
Britain without any money

and help from anybody?

I mean, how do you get out of
Memphis?

It had to be a private plane
somewhere.

AD was not accepting
of the lone gunman narrative

in Martin's murder.

Sensing a larger conspiracy
at hand, AD began to dig,

and what he found may
have gotten him killed.

AD was determined to get to
the bottom

of who killed his brother, that
he, one,

was unhappy what he had learned
about his brother's death.

He knew more than perhaps
he should've known

about his brother's
death and was determined

to try to keep the issue alive.

My father loved his brother,

and he supported him fully in
everything.

They did everything together,

and so I believe that my father
knew, "I'm with my brother.

We started this together
and it will end with us."

Do you have any indication

that you might take a more
active role

in the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference

since the death of MLK?
Well, definitely yes.

Well, if both brothers look
alike,

sound alike, have the same
message,

if one is taken away, you
can't leave the other.

That was exactly what happened

with President John
Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy,

and he knew what could be ahead,
but it never made him stop.

The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference

was not just one man, my
brother.

It is a group made up of many
people.

August 26th, 1968,

AD's church, Zion Baptist,
was bombed in Louisville.

Fortunately, no one was hurt.

Well, I've talked with
the officers of my church

and also the director of safety
of the City of Louisville,

and I understand that it
was some pretty bad damage.

By the fall of 1968,

AD would leave Louisville to
return

to co-pastor Ebenezer Baptist
Church

with his father Martin Luther
King Sr.

I think AD really never quite
got over his brother's death

and neither did his father,

and even though AD came on
to be the associate pastor

at Ebenezer and was a very good
preacher,

it was hard for them to get
over the death of Martin.

And then shortly after that,

his mother was killed while she

was playing the Lord's Prayer
in church on Sunday morning.

So the tragedy of the
family is just overwhelming.

On July 1969, AD
would walk his daughter

down the aisle on her wedding
day,

unaware that this family
gathering would be his last.

I had been married for almost
a week.

My dad walked me down the
aisle as a young bride,

and it was a special time
because it was in the midst

of the tumult of the
civil rights movement.

And I heard my father on
the phone and he says,

"I don't care what you say.

You killed my brother,

and I'm not gonna rest
until that is proven."

It was that type of
conversation.

He was talking on the phone.

Now we have become accustomed

in our family to the phone
ringing,

and we were having death
threats and all of that.

Our home had been bombed
even in 1963 in Birmingham,

Alabama, so I was accustomed
to rough telephone calls,

but that one was a little
different

because Daddy was very
confrontational with that
person,

is, "You killed my brother,

and I won't rest until the truth
is told."

The evening of July the 20th,

we was laughing and watching
TV, and I went to sleep.

Don't remember what time it
was, late in the evening.

More "Unsolved History: Life
of a King" when we return.

July 21st, 1969 as the nation
awoke

to the news of the Apollo 11
moon landing.

It's one small step for
man,

one giant leap for mankind.
I woke up the next morning,

he was in the bottom of a
swimming pool.

Alfred Daniel
King was pronounced dead

in the backyard of his Atlanta
home.

I was there on the scene

when they pulled him outta the
pool.

He was doubled up in the fetal
position

with some bruises around his
abdomen.

I heard the EMT said, "There's
no water in his lungs.

This man was dead before
he hit the water."

I know what I saw and I know
what I heard.

At the time, his wife,
Naomi King,

was on vacation with Coretta
Scott.

We were in Jamaica
at the time on vacation

with Coretta and two of her
children,

and my husband and two of
our children were there.

So he had to leave to come back

to Atlanta for church
participation.

Family friends

and SCLC President Ralph
Abernathy came

to support the family.

Ah, it's just tragic
that this family has had

to undergo so much within
the last few months.

Along with
Dr. Ralph Abernathy,

Reverend AD King was carrying on
the work

of Martin Luther King Jr.

AD King was behind the
scenes for the most part,

but he was important to the
movement,

partly as a symbol of
continuity.

Now he is gone and there are no
more sons

of Martin Luther King
Sr. to carry on his work.

As news spread of AD's
death,

all official reports stated he
drowned in his swimming pool

and that there was no foul play.

It certainly was
suspicious circumstances

around him when you consider
that the next door neighbors

who at that time were
white suddenly disappeared.

I tend to not think that my
uncle drowned

on his own in his own pool.

I mean, he was a very good
swimmer.

The state of AD's body

would become the only evidence
to counter that theory.

Unfortunately, no autopsy was
ever done.

I met an investigative
reporter, Jeff Prue,

and Jeff was outta California at
the time,

but he came to Atlanta after the
funeral,

after Daddy passed away,

and we tried to get the
records of the death,

the records from the coroner,

and we tried for months to get
him and we got the runaround.

"Oh, the coroner didn't have
time to write everything down.

He was used to keeping things

in his mind and now he's dead,"
or,

"It should be on microfiche,
but we can't find it."

We had just a runaround for
months,

and so we were never
able to get the records.

I think that people
didn't wanna know the truth

as they didn't want to know the
truth

about Martin Luther King.

There was a investigation in
the Martin's passing really

was never much of an
investigation.

Questions that have been
unanswered

to this day that most
people have forgotten,

but I will always have that
suspicion in the back of my mind

that AD went to the Lord just
like his mom

and just like his brother, with
somebody else's involvement.

When you get farther away from
it,

you begin to ask questions,

but we don't have any definitive
answers

and perhaps never will.

It sounds to me as though
it requires some looking into

and some investigation because
the man

was all of a sudden found dead
lying in the swimming pool.

That whole thing is very, very
strange.

I would urge AD Williams' family
to think

about seriously exhuming the
body

and trying to get the truth out
of it.

The technology today is
such that I think a lot

of information can
still be made available.

With all the mysteries
surrounding AD's death,

will his family seek to
open an investigation

or leave the puzzle of
his passing unfinished?

More "Unsolved History: Life
of a King" when we return.

And that I'd have to have
somebody

who was willing to do work on my
behalf,

somebody who was willing
to stand up to the horses

and the teargas in the Billy
Clubs!

Welcome back to "Unsolved
History: Life of a King."

When Alfred Daniel King died,

the same media and press the
movement used so effectively

to get attention for their
civil rights movement

in the past barely covered the
story.

Was this by design or pure
coincidence?

AD would die on the same
day of the moon landing,

the one day that all Americans
were looking to the stars

and nothing on earth would
make a blip in the news,

making the King family's
greatest weapon,

freedom of the press,

powerless on a day they needed
it most,

crushing the legacy of
AD King in the process.

My heart bleeds

because my illustrious
husband is not here,

and all of the causes
that he gave his life for,

his belief, his hard
work that he indulged in,

and not to be able to have any
acclaim

to all of the hard work that
he has done and put forth

and to be back at this
point now without him,

I feel a terrible injustice that
he

is not here to get his dues, his
props.

What happened to AD is not
unusual.

We lived in a symbolist
society, okay? Symbols.

Martin King punched all the
buttons until he was shot.

That made him immortal.

People unfortunately try
to compare one with another,

and that's unfair.

AD made great contribution in
his own way,

and he should not be
compared to his brother.

Although the
contributions of AD King

are not as well known
as his brother Martin,

his legacy will not be
forgotten.

Well, I think the most
important thing

is the housing piece that
we have today, integration.

Folk can live where they wanna
live.

Had that not ever been an
AD doing that in Louisville,

Kentucky, leading that
movement, getting beat up,

we wouldn't have open housing
today,

and other pieces, the
Breadbasket movement

that Dr. King started here in
Atlanta,

had it not been for AD and Fred
Bennett,

all of those preachers
from across the world

wouldn't have never got together

to integrate a lot of these
businesses.

Coca-Cola wouldn't be what it is
today

had it not been for people
like AD and Fred Bennett.

Operation Breadbasket was
one

of many departments formed
by the board members of SCLC.

While operated by Fred Bennett,

AD was behind much of the
strategy.

We boycotted a lot.

So if you couldn't buy
from a colored vendor,

you bought no gifts, no
presents.

There were seasons when if
you could not buy your food

from a colored vendor,
then you bought no food.

Those guys went to A& and told
A&P,

"If you don't give us jobs,

then we gonna go somewhere
else and start shopping."

These companies didn't
just get kind and good.

It was folk like AD and Bennett

and those other preachers
who brought that together,

and that's the best thing
that folk need to know.

I think about AD.

The SCLC is now made up

of chapters and affiliate
programs all over the nation,

expanding on the life's work
of Martin Luther King Jr.

and his brother, Alfred
Daniel Williams King.

The work of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference

will never be over.

In my book, I was saying that I
hope that,

because I got beat up and
went to jail once or twice,

that my children wouldn't have
to,

and then I stopped and I
said, "No, that's wrong."

I said, "I hope they
don't have to go to jail

for the same things I did, but I
hope they

will always find something
for which to fight."

You know, I was down in Selma,
Alabama,

celebrating the 42nd
anniversary of the march

across the Edmund Pettus Bridge,

and I was surrounded by folks
whose names

aren't always in the history
books.

Amen!

I was reminded that
they had marched for me.

They didn't know me.

I was only four years old at the
time.

They didn't know who I was
individually,

but they understood that
there would be somebody

like me coming along,

that I might wanna do
something with my life,

that I might wanna be a lawyer,

that I might wanna be a law
professor,

that I might wanna run for
the United States Senate.

I might even wanna run for
president,

and that I'd have to have
somebody

who was willing to do work on my
behalf,

somebody who was willing to
stand up

to the horses and the
teargas and the Billy Clubs!

Although AD's
death is still a mystery

and Martin Luther King's
assassination

is shrouded in conspiracy,

their contributions to this
nation will never be forgotten.

I'm Ed Gordon,

and that's all for this
edition of "Unsolved History."

As we pledge ourselves
to eternal vigilance

of our just cause, let us
establish the militancy

in Martin Luther King's
words, and I quote,

"Some of you have knives,
some of you have guns,

and I ask you to put them up.

Some of you have arms, and
I ask you to put them up.

Get the weapon of nonviolence,

the breast plates through
righteousness,

the armor of truth, and
just keep marching."