WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A researcher has discovered the uncensored version of an FBI letter that Martin Luther King Jr. interpreted as an invitation to suicide.
The letter, apparently written by William Sullivan, a deputy to longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, has long been fodder for historians. But Beverly Gage, a Yale University history professor currently working on a Hoover biography, said it was only available in heavily redacted versions until she found the original in the Hoover archives.