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| FBI honors Martin Luther King, Jr in a tweet forgetting its own legacy of harassing him | FBI honors Martin Luther King, Jr in a tweet forgetting its own legacy of harassing him |
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| Social media exploded as the FBI remembered the civil rights hero in a flattering #MLK Day tweet. Ironically, It’s the same hero the FBI wiretapped and threatened with a sex scandal, while allegations remain that the FBI had a hand in his assassination. | Social media exploded as the FBI remembered the civil rights hero in a flattering #MLK Day tweet. Ironically, It’s the same hero the FBI wiretapped and threatened with a sex scandal, while allegations remain that the FBI had a hand in his assassination. |
| “Today, the FBI honors the Rev. Martin L. King Jr. and his incredible career fighting for civil rights. #MLKDAY” The FBI tweet included a photograph with the caption “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere/ We are caught in a an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” | “Today, the FBI honors the Rev. Martin L. King Jr. and his incredible career fighting for civil rights. #MLKDAY” The FBI tweet included a photograph with the caption “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere/ We are caught in a an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” |
| The Twittersphere lit up with 1,400 shares in just three hours and nearly 1,000 comments. | The Twittersphere lit up with 1,400 shares in just three hours and nearly 1,000 comments. |
| Another tweet included a copy of the letter where the FBI said Dr King should kill himself. | Another tweet included a copy of the letter where the FBI said Dr King should kill himself. |
| Twitter users said the only appropriate tweet from the FBI should be, “He was a great man and we are really sorry.” | Twitter users said the only appropriate tweet from the FBI should be, “He was a great man and we are really sorry.” |
| On November 21, 1964, a letter accompanied by a tape recording of King's alleged sexual indiscretions were delivered to Dr. King’s wife Coretta Scott King and later also to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | On November 21, 1964, a letter accompanied by a tape recording of King's alleged sexual indiscretions were delivered to Dr. King’s wife Coretta Scott King and later also to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Although the letter was anonymously written, Dr King suspected the FBI sent the package. | Although the letter was anonymously written, Dr King suspected the FBI sent the package. |
| Dr. King’s widow, Coretta Scott King who died in 2006, is having her memoirs released on Tuesday. “My Life, My Love,” includes several interviews with Dr. Barbara Reynolds about the systematic harassment both she and her husband endured at the hands of the FBI which culminated in a smear campaign alleging that Dr. King had engaged in extramarital affairs. | Dr. King’s widow, Coretta Scott King who died in 2006, is having her memoirs released on Tuesday. “My Life, My Love,” includes several interviews with Dr. Barbara Reynolds about the systematic harassment both she and her husband endured at the hands of the FBI which culminated in a smear campaign alleging that Dr. King had engaged in extramarital affairs. |
| The letter, circulating for years in civil rights circles, was only made public in November 2014, when Yale professor Beverly Gage stumbled on it’s contents while conducting research - on the personal files of the FBI’s former director J. Edgar Hoover - for a book she was writing | The letter, circulating for years in civil rights circles, was only made public in November 2014, when Yale professor Beverly Gage stumbled on it’s contents while conducting research - on the personal files of the FBI’s former director J. Edgar Hoover - for a book she was writing |
| “By 1963, right after the March on Washington, the Bureau had grown very alarmed about King’s growing influence, and they began to bug his hotel rooms while he was on the road, and they began to wiretap his home and his office,” Gage told Democracy Now! “They had enormous amounts of information about King, about his personal life, about his political activities, and they had been watching many people in his circle, as well.” | “By 1963, right after the March on Washington, the Bureau had grown very alarmed about King’s growing influence, and they began to bug his hotel rooms while he was on the road, and they began to wiretap his home and his office,” Gage told Democracy Now! “They had enormous amounts of information about King, about his personal life, about his political activities, and they had been watching many people in his circle, as well.” |
| The unsigned typed letter was written in a voice of a disillusioned civil rights activist, but it is widely believed to have been written by one of Hoover’s deputies, William Sullivan. | The unsigned typed letter was written in a voice of a disillusioned civil rights activist, but it is widely believed to have been written by one of Hoover’s deputies, William Sullivan. |
| The letter was considered a symbol of a much wider campaign against Dr. King and the civil rights movement, people suspected of having ties to the Communist Party, and those on the left in general. That included wiretapping, likely approved under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and which continued during the Nixon administration under a program called COINTELPRO. | The letter was considered a symbol of a much wider campaign against Dr. King and the civil rights movement, people suspected of having ties to the Communist Party, and those on the left in general. That included wiretapping, likely approved under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and which continued during the Nixon administration under a program called COINTELPRO. |
| FBI records show its covert Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed subversive including anti-Vietnam War organizers, activists of the Civil Rights Movement or Black Power movement (i.e., Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Panther Party), feminist organizations, anti-colonial movements (such as Puerto Rican independence groups called the Young Lords), and a variety of organizations that were part of the broader New Left. | FBI records show its covert Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed subversive including anti-Vietnam War organizers, activists of the Civil Rights Movement or Black Power movement (i.e., Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Panther Party), feminist organizations, anti-colonial movements (such as Puerto Rican independence groups called the Young Lords), and a variety of organizations that were part of the broader New Left. |
| The FBI’s own director J. Edgar Hoover called Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the “most notorious liar in the country,” in front of a group of female journalists ahead of Dr. King’s trip to Oslo where he received the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the youngest recipient of the prize. |