I'm fully retired. Look out when I get bored.

I think a nail just got hit on the head.

I used to be that way. I can still get that way, but only for my grandson's amusement.

I gave you another +1 because unlike you I look for trouble.
I am dino--
Hear me roar!

I didn't say anything about compelling them to donate. It doesn't appear as if they need the $$ and the pieces in question are notable historic items. Of course, being an old (make that elderly) gentleman, I eschew tension and conflict in my life, which is why I tend to eliminate contentiousness and recommend letting the multitudes view the remnants of the great man rather than have unseemly fighting over them.

Yes. Not my laundry.

Why should I care one way or another? The issue is totally pointless.

What an utterly pointless dispute. Sad, really.

Did this opinion really deserve to have a point taken down to zero?
"Why should anyone's heirs simply donate things?" shoulda been simply asked. Anyhoo, I donated a +1 back to Herb.
And if the subtrator does not like it--Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!
C'mon, take my +1 for merely posting.
Sock it to me! Sock it to me!

Knowing who King was and his influence of history, the heirs should simply donate the things. However, their greed is showing and second-hander is an appropriate title for them.

I'm not really sure Dr. King Jr. would care one way or the other at this point. He might have - back in '67 or so. Now? Not likely.

The traveling bible - even his medal - are just things. IMO they should be kept for posterity, and if the kids want to exchange them for fiat currency, well, that's who they are. Maybe someone will buy them and donate them to something like the Smithsonian or a University collection. That they've been picking over Dr. King's corpse so long, to me, just tells me what "birds of a feather" they are... kind of sad...

I have learned from my wife's legal practice that more mundane disputes over whether to sell things like grandpa's antique guns are common. It seems like most probates have one such dispute in some form.

Are you judging them by the content of their character?