7 May 2023

Leta McCollough Seletzky: The Kneeling Man

From Sunday Morning, 10:05 am on 7 May 2023

In the moments that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. a photograph captured a group of people trying the help him on the balcony. Kneeling down is Marell McCullough, an undercover cop. In Leta McCollough Seletzky's 'father-daughter memoir', she reconstructs the "life of a black spy" in 1960s America.

LETA MCCOLLOUGH SELETZKY - THE KNEELING MAN: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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