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"&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img alt=\"1015_harry_mtk_getty\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/10/15/1015-harry-mtk-getty-3.jpg\" /&gt;Harry Belafonte&lt;/strong&gt; wants to be free at last ... to sell original speeches penned by &lt;strong&gt;Martin Luther King, Jr.&lt;/strong&gt;, but King's Estate has mounted a challenge from the mountaintop ... so Belafonte is now suing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get this ... Belafonte has the notes that were in Dr. King's suit pocket when he was assassinated in 1968.&amp;#160; He also has a condolence letter written to Coretta King by President Lyndon Johnson.&amp;#160; And, he has various King speeches, including the outline for the famous \"The casualties of the war in Vietman\" speech.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Belafonte tried to sell the docs at a Sotheby's auction back in 2008, but the Estate objected and the auction was cancelled.&amp;#160; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Belafonte apparently was stewing over this for years, and now he's made his move by filing a lawsuit asking a judge to confirm he's the rightful owner.&amp;#160; And get this ... Sotheby's is holding all the docs until a court decides who owns the priceless stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for how Harry gained possession of the docs, he had a long relationship with King during the Civil Rights movement.&amp;#160; In fact, King worked at Belafonte's NYC apartment and Belafonte even provided King with financial support."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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