dinner, do anything you want to, and
tomorrow at ten o’clock, we’ll
resume our efforts.”Pritchett would not throw King in the
briar patch. It was hopeless. Not long
afterward, King packed his bags and left
town.^6
Walker realized that a setback in
Birmingham so soon after the Albany
debacle would be disastrous. In those
years, the evening news on television
was watched in an overwhelming
number of American households, and
Walker wanted desperately to have
Project C front and center on American
television screens every night. But he