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Apr 2, 2018 · April 2, 2018. On April 4, 1968, when his campaign plane reached Indianapolis on that night, Robert F. Kennedy (above: in a 1968 portrait by Louis S. Glanzman) learned of Dr. King’s death. NPG ...
- Alice George
- Martin Luther King Jr. and The FBI
- The FBI’s “Suicide Letter” to King
- The FBI’s Martin Luther King Tapes and Subsequent Revelations
Immoral intelligence strategies have a way of becoming classified and then declassified decades later after the fact, when the parties responsible for injustice have already died. This case is no different. According to Insider, the “suicide letter” — as it’s come to be known — first surfaced in 1975. Filled with personal insults, barely-veiled thr...
A copy of the letter was published by The New York Timesin 2014 by Yale historian Beverly Gage. The letter’s since-popularized name “FBI-King suicide letter” derives from the fact that it is littered with references to King’s end. The typewritten document repeatedly mentions that he is “done,” and even states that his Nobel Prize “and other awards ...
According to Richard Gid Powers’ Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI, a group of activists called the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI burglarized one of the agency’s offices in Media, Pennsylvania on March 8, 1971. Some of the classified documents they obtained, albeit illegally, publicly revealed COINTELPRO for th...
As U.S. Attorney General from 1961 to 1964, Robert F. Kennedy served as one of the most trusted advisors to his brother, President John F. Kennedy, on matters of civil rights. Although Martin Luther King boldly criticized the attorney general and the Department of Justice for its failure to investigate civil rights violations, he wrote Kennedy ...
Jan 18, 2021 · Martin Luther King Jr. was a man who had a "tremendous amount of burdens he had to deal with, both politically, socially and personally," says MLK/FBI director Sam Pollard. Courtesy of IFC Films
- Sam Briger
Jan 15, 2018 · The FBI was obsessed with Martin Luther King Jr. from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King was only 39 when he was killed on April 4, 1968, having spent 12 years—almost a third of ...
- Ryan Sit
In 1962, FBI informants told the Bureau that one of Martin Luther King, Jr's closest advisers - New York lawyer Stanley Levison - was a communist. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered an investigation. On June 22, 1963, King met with President John F. Kennedy at the White House to discuss civil rights. At one point, Kennedy led King from the ...
Jul 1, 2002 · The FBI and Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King was never himself a Communist—far from it. But the FBI's wiretapping of King was precipitated by his association with Stanley Levison, a man ...
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