If The King Legacy Diminishes Over Time ...

... we will know who shares in the blame.

Here's the latest from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the tit-for-tat legal troubles among the King children:

The three living children of the civil rights icon have gone to court to determine whether the letters and other "intimate correspondence" should be turned over to be used in an autobiography of Mrs. King.

The special master must figure out what papers are in question and help catalog and inventory all possible papers in over 100 boxes found among Mrs. King's possessions after she died.

Earlier Tuesday, Dexter King, the younger son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said he was as disappointed as anyone at the spectacle in Fulton County Superior Court on Tuesday. He sat on the opposite side of the courtroom from his two siblings, locked in a struggle over control of their parents' love letters.

Geoffrey Bennett

Tags: King children | Martin Luther King

7:08 PM ET | 10-14-2008 | permalink

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