He, too, would be pronounced dead at a hospital. “You know how big a casket for a 5-year-old is?” Detective Cedillo would later ask Nixon-Clark in an interview, trying to jolt him into honesty.

In 1968, Wilt Chamberlain was the biggest basketball star in the world and Richard ... in Atlanta. Nixon wanted to make a quick exit of the procession following King’s casket to his burial ...