JFK’s, and RFK’s, are both available in the libraries named for them.

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TITLE: Auction Is Canceled As King Papers Go To College
BLOG NAME: Booker Rising
And Joe Gandelman over at The Moderate Voice is relieved. The moderate-liberal blogger writes:”I visited Atlanta some years ago, on one of my vacations while I was a staff writer on the San Diego Union and went to as many sites connected with MLK, Jr…

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TITLE: King’s Papers at Morehouse
BLOG NAME: Cobb
I am quite pleased that the appropriate millions were found and that this important set of documents will have a secure institutional home. We can only hope that when my kids are old enough to read them, the spiderwebs will have been kept at bay, which was a bit much to ask of their previous caretakers.

Heroism doesn’t breed true; the offspring of heroes are likelier to be regular folks, or regular organization men (and women), than trailblazers. That’s particularly true in a society, like ours, which has collectively decided that freedom grows neither from the barrel of a gun nor from collective action by idealists, but from a well-padded bank account.

MLK Jr.’s kids heard that message. Considering the country they live in, I can’t entirely blame them. But I’m very glad there were enough people with enough passion – and enough money – to rescue King’s legacy and preserve it for all of us.

Thank You Joe for inspiring me to do some reading on this subject.