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Martin Luther King Jr.—murdered. The news of April 4, 1968, was like a body blow to Senator Robert Kennedy. He “seemed to shrink back,” said John J. Lindsay, a Newsweek reporter traveling...
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- The FBI’s “Suicide Letter” to King
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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...
On April 4, 1968, United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York delivered an improvised speech several hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy, who was campaigning to earn the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, made his remarks while in Indianapolis, Indiana, after speaking at two Indiana universities ...
Jan 18, 2021 · From the March on Washington in 1963 up until his assassination in 1968, the FBI engaged in an intense campaign to discredit Martin Luther King Jr. and his work.
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...
Apr 4, 2018 · Fifty years ago, Senator Robert F. Kennedy climbed onto the back of a flatbed truck to deliver the news to a largely African-American crowd in Indianapolis that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...
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Jul 11, 2018 · Dedicated to the political vision and legacy of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, and to the investigation of their murders.
