 But what do you think we can learn from that moment? You know, what interested me when I started thinking about that assassination attempt, Martin Luther King had labeled him the most dangerous racist in America. Now, suddenly, things changed. He was shot five times in the stomach, and he survived, but was paralyzed from the waist down and left in chronic pain. And something changed in his life. Somehow, he became a born-again Christian. He sought forgiveness from the black community. He acknowledged that he had been wrong to stand for segregation.