Author Jonathan Eyck was deep into researching his new book about Martin Luther King, Jr.

When he zeroed in on an interview that King gave to Playboy magazine in the 1960s.

So I asked an archivist for the transcript.

Well, the transcript came to me by email, so not very glamorous.

I wasn't going through boxes.

I wasn't flipping through pages of old letters and yellowed newspaper clippings, which

I loved to do.

I was thrilled to see that each file was about 85 pages long and that there was a lot

there to dive into.

This interview was conducted by journalist Alex Haley and it became hugely important.

So I was very familiar with it.

But as he started reading the unedited transcript, he made a shocking discovery.

And realized very quickly that a lot of this interview transcript was different from what

was published.

And then when I got to the Malcolm X part, that's when I had my sort of holy cow moment.

In the published interview, King says Malcolm X quote has done himself and our people a

great disservice.

And that Malcolm X's fiery rhetoric quote can reap nothing but grief.

But according to the unedited transcript, King never said that.

This is a huge deal, Ike says, because this fabricated quote was repeated over and over

and helped define how the public understood the relationship between these two men.

Playboy and Alex Haley were driving a wedge between two of our most important civil rights

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