Edgar Hoover's FBI harrassed King, bugged his hotel rooms and tapped his telephones.

CNN: Related Stories

The first was Edgar Allan Poe's 'King Pest', an adaptation of this short story about two sailors seeking refuge in a plague town.

BBC: Jersey - Cardboard cartoons and improv

The stories, narrated by the bride Scheherazade to the Persian king, have resonated in art and literature for centuries, from Edgar Allan Poe to Alfred Tennyson's Recollections of the Arabian Nights.

BBC: Today

Edgar Hoover, who made his own laws, eavesdropped on Martin Luther King Jr.

CNN: Limits to power