Oddly enough Martin Luther King Jr.’s most trusted friend may have been a man who was not directly associated with the Civil Rights Movement. This person was his doctor. Dr. Emil Naclerio was a surgeon who helped to save King’s life about ten years before his assassination. Along with another surgeon, Naclerio helped save his life by doing surgery on King after he had been stabbed. It is not widely known that King was attacked by a deranged woman ten years before he was killed by James Earl Ray.
The wounds were life-threatening and King trusted and became friends with this doctor. There were several other friends who walked with King through every march and speech, but sometimes your most trusted friend is one that is actually outside the ring of friends when you have risen to power during a movement.
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