Anais writes that she became "hysterical" when she heard the news that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
She writes: "Could not bear the cruelty, the horror of it. Knew what a deep wound it would cause the black people. I never espoused a cause, but the cause of the black people affects me deeply. I joined the vigil for Dr. King at Pershing Square in Los Angeles. That death was full of tragic meaning, humanly and politically. That it could happen was to me the darkest moment of American history."
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