Parting the Waters (204 page)

* Hoover would leak word of the taps when Robert Kennedy was running for president in 1968, after King's death, and John Seigenthaler, seeing the stricken look on Kennedy's face when asked about the rumors during a practice debate, knew instantly that he did not need to ask whether it was true, nor could he bear to ask why. Instead, after Kennedy himself was killed that year, Seigenthaler wrote a letter of apology to Stanley Levison.

† Thelton Henderson, later a District Court judge in California.