Dexter Scott King, Son of Dr. Martin Luther King, Dead at Age 62

Dexter Scott King, son of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King, has died. He was only 7 years old when his father was assassinated in 1968. The third of the four King children, Dexter King followed in his father’s educational footsteps and earned a degree from Morehouse College. At the time of his death, King worked for The King Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering nonviolent social change. King had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.