However, the scene in the film is very close to the account in The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr, a volume of King's own writings collected by Clayborne Carson in 1998.
His political writings often pushed to the limits of the permissible: he was an eloquent representative of those party insiders who were critical both of the influence of the military-industrial complex and of Russian nationalist currents within the party.
Alongside her writings and poetry, she had a knack for a prescient and inspiring quote: "Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time and the arena, and the manner of our revolutions, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing".
Maschler was the one who first persuaded Lennon to compile some of his writings for a book, published in 1964, and then worked with him again for the 1965 follow-up.
In Italy, Spero, who has died aged 83 of respiratory complications, discovered the vigour and immediacy of ancient Etruscan art; in Paris, where she and Golub settled in 1959, she discovered the troubled art and writings of the manic-depressive artist and inventor of the so-called theatre of cruelty, Antonin Artaud.
In Lenin's very last writings, long after he renounced the utopia of State and Revolution, he explored the idea of a modest, "realistic" project for Bolshevism.
But a frank assessment of character caused less reaction then revelations about his attachment to the wartime Vichy regime and his hatred for De Gaulle, whom he described as a "new Hitler", thus offending the Free French leader so deeply that De Gaulle joined the Nazis and Vichy in banning Saint-Exupéry's writings.
"In academic writings on Buena Vista, there's a big deal made of the nostalgia and mystique and the fact it invokes an earlier era," says Robin D Moore, professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Texas, specialising in the music of Cuba.
At times in his writings, Senca fantasises about the possibility that one could be wealthy, even extremely wealthy, and maintain one's ethical integrity.
His writings are filled with a constant and infectious sense of wonder.
Roy, who was 42, had been a target of extremist groups for at least five years because of his writings on secular and lesbian and gay issues in his columns and blogs, his father said.
