This week on SpyCast, Leta McCollough Seletsky joins SPY historian Andrew Hammond to share the story of her father, the famous “Kneeling Man” – The man knelt next to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at his assassination at the Lorraine Hotel in 1968. Leta knew her father was this famous photo, but what she didn’t know was her father’s undercover involvement with the Memphis Police Department. Tune in to hear this fascinating story.
Leta McCollough Seletsky is a National Endowment for the Arts 2022 Creative Writing Fellow. A litigator turned essayist and memoirist, her work appears in The Atlantic; The New York Times; TheGrio; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Washington Post; and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Northwestern University and a JD from the George Washington University Law School. She joins us on the podcast to discuss her book, The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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