Coretta Scott King

===FBI tapes===
{{Main|FBI–King suicide letter}}

[[File:HHH-CKS-MLK-1964.jpg|thumb|right|Coretta Scott with [[Martin Luther King Jr.|her husband]] and Vice President-elect [[Hubert Humphrey]] on December 17, 1964]]
The FBI planned to [[FBI–King suicide letter|mail tapes]] of her husband's alleged affairs to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference office since surveillance revealed that Coretta opened her husband's mail when he was traveling. The FBI learned that Martin Luther King would be out of office by the time the tapes were mailed and that his wife would be the one to open it.<ref>(Gentry, pg. 572–573.)</ref> [[J. Edgar Hoover]] even advised to mail "it from a southern state."<ref>Gentry, p. 572.</ref> Coretta sorted the tapes with the rest of the mail, listened to them, and immediately called her husband, "giving the Bureau a great deal of pleasure with the tone and tenor of her reactions."<ref>Gentry, p. 575.</ref> Martin Luther King played the tape in her presence, along with [[Andrew Young]], [[Ralph Abernathy]] and [[Joseph Lowery]]. Publicly, Mrs. King would say "I couldn't make much out of it, it was just a lot of mumbo-jumbo."<ref>Dyson, p. 217.</ref> The tapes were part of a larger attempt by J. Edgar Hoover to denounce King by revelations about his personal life.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The FBI's Ugly Obsession With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/the-fbis-ugly-obsession-with-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/|access-date=2021-01-23|website=[[Amanpour & Company]]|language=en-US}}</ref>