An attorney for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who helped smuggle out snippets of King’s writing that became the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” has died.
When King was behind bars at the Birmingham Jail in 1963, attorney Clarence B. Jones would bring him newspapers, which King would read and then write on in the margins, and on pieces of yellow legal pad paper, which Jones then smuggled out of the jail.
Jones died May 22 at an assisted living facility in Cupertino, California. He was 95…