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Ten years before he was felled by an assassin's bullet, the Rev. Mr. Martin Luther King was stabbed in the chest in a department store while autographing books. New York Governor Averell Harriman, left, talks with the Dr. King and his wife Coretta Scott King in Harlem Hospital, September 22, 1958. The governor said after the visit that he had made Mr. King laugh when he said that the clergyman was the only calm person in the hospital the night of the stabbing.

Six women protested the scheduled eviction of a black family from the Parkchester housing development of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in the Bronx, May 20, 1953. They sit chained to chairs in a demonstration in the skyscraper office of Frank Lowe, Metropolitan Life Vice President in charge of housing.

Sophie Decatur, second from right, her husband Michael and their two children obtained a Parkchester apartment on a sub-lease. The company's refusal to renew the lease was upheld in court. Left to right are: Florence Davis, Theresa Chayes, Shirley Shepard, Anne Palma, Mrs. Decatur, and Bernice D'Antonio.

Wearing a Yankees cap, Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi throws out the first ball, June 23, 1957, at Yankee Stadium. He watched the first game of a double header between Chicago and the Yankees. Left to right, unidentified lady, Mrs. Casey Stengel, Casey Stengel, Nobusuke Kishi, Al Lopez, Manager of White Sox.

Ray: This is wrong!  What about your husband?

Grace: Don't be silly darling, there's not room for the three of us in here!