King daydreamed about his funeral the way a betrothed might fantasize about a wedding - the speeches, the ceremony, the guests - mourning only that he wouldn’t be there to see it. His neurosis was a familiar theme whenever he was interviewed (“I’m scared to death of death!”), as mundane a fact as his favorite sports team.
Naturally, this meant he couldn’t stop talking about it. King spent his life dodging death, resistant but haunted by its specter. If one parked by my apartment building, I’d start running home, in fear that my mother had died.” “I never went back to that library again,” he writes in his memoir, “My Remarkable Journey.” “And from that day on, I was nervous if I saw a squad car in my neighborhood. King, heartbroken and resentful, didn’t cry. Eddie, too, had been complaining of pain but dismissed it, choosing to go to work anyway.
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One officer - a friend of his dad’s - pulled King aside and drove him to the movie theater, where he broke the news: His father had died of a heart attack. As he approached the peculiar scene, he recognized his mother’s screams. He was 9 in his memory, he checked out nine books that day. On June 9, 1943, King was walking home from the library when he saw three squad cars parked in front of his apartment building. (It wasn’t until his first radio show, in 1957, that Zeiger became a King: less ethnic, easier to spell.) Eddie doted on his son, taking him everywhere - to Yankee games or the Brooklyn bar he owned, popular with cops around the neighborhood. His prayers were answered in the form of Lawrence Harvey Zeiger. The couple, adrift, quickly conceived again, and Eddie prayed for a boy - a chance to do it all over. The 6-year-old had been complaining of stomach pains, but by the time Eddie and his wife, Jennie, got him to the hospital, it was too late: Irwin died of a ruptured appendix. “He wanted a son so bad.” Eddie Zeiger was only 30 when he buried his first son, Irwin. “My father consumed me,” Larry King said in a 1997 interview. He didn’t want to die, but he did want to talk about death.
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