My Time with the Kings: A Reporter's Recollection of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement

“Let Kathryn in,” said Coretta Scott King to authorities.

Three simple words that provided Kathryn Johnson, a reporter for The Associated Press’s Atlanta bureau, unprecedented access to the grieving widow in the days following her husband’s death. Johnson was on her way to a movie date when word came from Memphis that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated. She immediately headed for the King home where, despite resistance from authorities on the scene, she was the only reporter allo...