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top

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 appoint

Judge

Supreme

Court.

•

Wil 1 i2.i1

a Negro

appointed

to

to

step

the

the

sa .i _d . tha t.l{ing
'

Hast~e,

of Judge

leader

to

\'

Levison

appointment

the

Hastie

~; ~-.:.•
·"-·o/

fo~th

Supreme

--

United

should

because

and state

St ates

e::,.--pect

would

'Negroes

~hich

advocate

plibl icly

Negro

should

Court.

-....

rel/l4e~
On May 1, 1962, a CPUSA functionary
stated
--~N?;-;iNl•--~--z,u

~f:11/titl~

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--v·t 'j:i~l4 N )Al

-

Stanley
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that

.

·,, =n

Levison,

becaus~

of his

association

~ith

the

Xing

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mo.,_
.,.,er;ent,
-

'~is

On May 30,

Attorney

doin~
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a conference

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1 _it t le

assist

in the

fight

for

civil

~ights

for. Negroes.

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General's

them."

•

representative

According

pointed

to Levison,
statenant.

Levison

-•-':-':'"".;.__:._:;c. .,...-_: ,e:_~- -=-

after

this

meeting

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way you acted
!"_

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regarding

King~~I-~ongratulate
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Levison

King ~id not

upon.hearing
this
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to

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an

reported

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that

you on the

--#>

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You are
,..._,c!/-~

''bat

2nd

~.JI'-:'">~

a real
~-

Marxist-

_,-·_ ... ....

Sais ITI vt: !ortlf.JN.l.N16/l1t:tcil,e.e
dfliliil71lJ,...()II C{)11vt1

Follo~ing

this

casting,
cm

trTOISi~

there

~ere

r

•·

Cf"

develc~~onts.
!til.!~"'i!......

and his brother
breaxing
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--succeeded inlf!Ell

Levison

t~o

SW-·

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C?cS~

a~ay fro~

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_th.~:,:still

considered
th2:;;s2lves
"CP _p_e_o_:-le
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In

....

additio:1,

Levison

celebrated

~I2rch

a role

in

on~. 172.shin;to:n

for

played

the

civil

plans

ri;hts

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led

to

t~c

on .~.t::;t:s: 2S,

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 m,;;!

Ori:;inal1y,

leaders,

President

of the Brotherhood

proposed
Fall

a march on the

that

proposal

,· .

is

time

the

now,"

~ooperation

an earlier

for

in the forefront

Car Porters,

of other

the

during

the
who

initiative

Negro leaders

for

put King

~ove that

events

had

with Levison,

King seized

march--a

of the

Randolph,

soraetine

capital

t~~.:::..:::;;=after consultation

"the

and secured

of Sleeping

Nation's

lni~

A.

Bv"'t

of 1963~

agreed

principally

King!s

squarely

developed.

that

"Freedo::: -:·.'.lys"
The C?~SA di~ not

-::T.

Benj2:::i~.=2~is
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in c::ar;c·.

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to try

to :-.as~ ~it~

~eviso~

IJN~IJlNf

to

:to

r::~11

but

":Freedo:-:-:-:2.ys"

2.lso as a he.'.lc:-::_;J:!rters-fo:- P:rt:-,-

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in

the

O S:YOt

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his

South.

ldttt

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,

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!~,~-~~st:r._~.:~
,?u~.R2ll

In Septe:-.ce~~:~3~

instructed

base

of Leviso~

,JeNs,r,"'',;- J;hc-J4ti
JNl~lk1;y,~
tJfr'-1,A11a\_
,,.

a struggle.
~request

cootrol

give&?

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King and Levison

considerable
occupied
evening

met again

7, 1964.

Februar·y

0

•

SCLC headquarters

One of the purposes

of thes2

SCLC should

hire

Reoudiation

Refused

exposed

rel~tio~s~ip

result

of this

Bayard

of

to

p~ess,

On the
resid2nce.

consider

~hether

be d2scrib2d

ar:d Levis~n

r.1. !lg

in the

val-.:2

at Kingts

was to

...

King was

sa=ie time.

~ho will

e:~~sure

r:o lo~;~=-

past.

neetings

Ki=i

told

8 and

spent

Levison

in Atlanta.

dined

Rustin,

on January

1964,

at the

Levison

•

York City

in SCLC headquarters

of March 9, 1964,

the

N'E!

On March 9 and 10,

tiwe
in the

in

hereinafter.

•
Levis 2~

~~~t

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Kin;

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to

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follo-;;er.

if

Levis:)iJ.

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Levison

:,.L·•

to be a noncon..~unist.

and would h~•

fodoJ'0
1
Levison

said,

order to improve
Negro move~ent,

his

_.,t..,.,.~....,,,.,
.~
._,-,_-_r:._
v·u-·-~
.............
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position

away from the

of influence

did

His

in h~~:.-""dismissal by King.

he had stayed

but this

t

his

resultec

co;;m:iented that

-

and· strength

mean that

not

CPUSA in

in the

he was anti-Party.

Use of Interwadiary
soon beca~e

It

relationship

bat~aen

expediency.

Starting

apparc~t

that

the

severance

of the

and King was a te2poraiy

Levison

in A?ril,

1964,

contacts

Levison's

d
King wBre h2ndled

by

Cla:-2nce

an inter~3diary,

the

of the

G2r:,:::1i

Ri~:-:ts,

fc:::

a

~

..,rr"

-1.-

of
~ith

Ne$.,,--,;.

Jo:1es '/· -;;-::_ois

t

for

act

...

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SCLC.

-

-

... ,,_,...
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J.. -

gro-...:p.

Spring

and

during

this

"our

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n..;..

fric:~G.

i.. ., ..

183-L

p~riod,

Jones

~

I3 bis

usually

co~vcrsatio~s

referred

~ith

to Levison

11

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as

•_;

 On September
latter's

office

to

end of October,
Jones,

1964,

and re'7linded

King

Plans

a personal

for

about

met.with

the · SC~C.

for

what

role

that

Levison

under.72.y

wzre

involving

this

had

by the

King,

in2eting,

could

Levison

i~ ·the

Leviso~

meeting

In preparation

King to think

future

Jones

1964,

discuss

_ and Levison.

told

j9,

Jones

play

in the

bee'n helpful

in

the

past.
King

an offici

play

during

~

the

of

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offered

,;:;a s in

al

t~is

I

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role

p0ricd

i"

Jon2so~

the

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.

.

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'/i et n Z::J ls s ;_
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;

the

G2.nd hi

Soci~ty

foi:'

Ri;hts

P~,--:::-i

.

In

1949,

~2chtel

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bulwark

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Rustin

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King __utilize
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prestiie

as a ~inner

President

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Nob~l Pbace

Ho Chi . 1[irih bf North Yietn~rn;
to

President

Vietnar:1

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le ft .~r~ ' to
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pz.per

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sent:

OD Vietn2;":1,

l~rid~rs

of

~ptith

1 ·

the

.,

4,

c2lled

upon

Le~{~on

to

cl.2 r

to

2ns~er

if~~~

his- , _pDs:i.tio:::

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Levison,,

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a

con-

King

should

~ecision

Baya_rd_ R:ust~n_, Harry

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attended

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this

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a short

.of this,

p1=pte::iber ,. 1965,

Vietna □

the

avoid

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persor;al

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the Attorney
Gene1J~l~:-~'-~\--·
advised
Assistant
Director
Evans that in view of. the poss:i.ble
co1;mnJ.nist influence
in the r8.cial
situation
he desired
con.sidei:ation be given to placing
technical
surveillances
on 1fa.rtin Luther
King, Jr., leader of the_ Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
(SCLC), and Clarence B. Jones, a Hew York City attorney
who is
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associated
with King and involved
in the rac:laJ. moveri1ent.
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General
at that tine indicated
he ,,as not concex·ncd
. with the repercussions
if it should
ever becor.:.e known that such
.survcill2.nces
had been put into effect
and thr~t he thought
it
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to h~ve co::::plete covernge.
Altho1;.~b., when such a
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r,'a.s 1:12.de of the L.ttorney
General
7/22/63
he rejected
~·~.coverage on Kin:r,. he hn.s subsequGntly
authoriz0d
technical
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Surveys have been··made· on the residence
of 1Iartin
Luther
King 1 Jr.,
in Atlanta,
Georgia,
and the headquarters
of the Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
(SCLC) in New York City o These
surveys
indicate
it is feasible
to install
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the Attorney
General
advised
Assistant
Director
Evans that
in view of the possible
communist
influence
in the racial
situation,
he desired
that consideration
be given to placing
a technical
surveillance
on 1,iaTtin LutlH~r
King, Jr .. 1 le,1:der of the SCLC, and Cl2.rence B. Jones,
a Ke-;--;Yor~:: City
attorney
who is closely
associated
"':i th King and involved
in the
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mov2r.13nt.,
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Attorney
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if ~t should ever boco~o
: knovm that such surveillances~
had been put into effect
and that
he_,,...
jli thought it advisable
to have com.plete
coverage.
Ho\°;ever 1 when such
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GeneTal
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and · is P.resid-ent
of the Southern
Christian
Leadership
ConfercncP.,
330 Auburn Avenue 1 Atlanta.
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of the -SCL:;: is-1:'?cated
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/by Levison
as, a ,Lholehearted
1.!arxist
who has ~tudi ,E;.g__J
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of the
sources
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or control
at any time.
I d1d inform.
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Dr• King and two members
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Reverend
Andrew
Young
and Reverend
Wyatt
Walker
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since
QtDell
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by
many people
to have
had Communist
c~nnections
his
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association
with
their
organization
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in the
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job w:i.th the Southern
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Con£ erence
was . changed.,
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response
to direct
questions
whether
I had hard
evidence
of O'Dell's
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however,
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22 prior
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Party.
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Levison
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control
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on a previous
occasion,
warned br. King
about
any association
with Levison,
basing
the
warning
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Georgia. It is noted that last week the Attorney General authorized
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that on 7 /16/63 the Attorney
Gener~.l ad"1iGctl
Assistant
Director
Ev~ns that in view of the ·possible
co:11nunist in:Elu·ence in the racial
situation;
he · desired
that consideration
be given
to placinr:;- a technicrd
surveiJ.l~nce
on 1'.i~rtin Luther King;, Jr.,
le~dor
of the Sc,uthe:rn Christian
Leadership
Conf ere nee, and Cl~.rence :te11j r.:J.in
Jones,
a lk,w Ym."k City attorney,
v:ho is closely
associatGd
v.-ith I~in::;.
The Attornc-:1 General indicated
he WD.S not concerned
v:i th the re·nerif :tt should ever becone knovn that sti.ch E:u!.·ve2112.:-:ce:;- h~d
} cussions
been put into eff0ct
2.!ld that
he thought
it advisable
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at 563 Johnson Avenue, N.E., -Atlanta 1 Georeia,
· and is the President
of the Southern
Christian
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330 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta.
King is on the Reserve Index.
He is
closely
associated
ui th Stanley
Levison,
a concealed
r.1e.:;1ber of i:he
Com:.mnist Party,
USA. King has been described.
by Levison
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request
that consideration be given to placing
a technical
surveillance
o~ King, our Ltl~nta
Office ~as requested
to conduct a survey to ~scertain
if such cove ~r~e
is feasible
and could be conducted
~ith full
security.
Atlantn
teletype 7/20/63 discloses
that technica1
coverage on King is ~c~siblc
n.=.d
- can be · ccnclucted
with
full
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OBSERVATION:
In view of the Attorney General's
request that our coverage
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it is felt that ~e should institute.coverage not only on Kine's residence,
but also on his office at the
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King is a national
figure
prominent
in the racial.movement~
H';'Ras been involved
with and is taking
advice
from well-knm-1n
communist f·igures.
This source provides
information
regarding
his
r ,.; ·
contact
with these
individua.ls
as well as information
as to what /~ :;:.\f·"
theJ- advise _him to do.
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amount of the information
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we have received
from this source has been furnished
to the
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White House, the Attorney
General,
and other Governnent
agencies.
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This source has provided
a great
anount of information
concerning
:_;1.
racial
disorders
in the South,
racial
riots
in Northern
cities
as
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well as racial
activities
at both major political
party
conventions.
In addition,
this
source has provided
inf orBa tion (i.;hich .has been
furnished
to the White House) regarding
King's
i'i:1!:loral extramurital
activities.
The type of information
received
through
this
source
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through
any other
source.

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action
pending
concerning
King ar.d
on the basis
of the information
wehave, prosecutive.
action
appe.2.rs to
be unlikely
in the foreseeable
future.
It ·would appear logical
to
continue
this installation
bec~use
the large
contricution
tl,~t it
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KING ARRIVED ATLANTIC CITY VIA PRIVATE PLANE ON AUGUST 22
AND TESTIFIED
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VOLUNTEERS DHO ~ENT TO MISSISSIPPI,
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By letter
dated 6/30/64
the Atlanta
Office
requested
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authority
to install
3 additional
technical
surveillances
(tesurs)
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on the facilities
of the Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference·_
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(SCLC), 330 Auburn Avenue, NE, Atlanta,
Georgia,
for the purpose
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providing
additional
coverage of the SCLC and its leader
Dr. Uartin
f-:-__;;;'.·
Luther King, Jr • ., If approved,
Atlanta
desires
to utilize
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SA l'lilli2m F. Kusch of tile Hia.ni Office to install
ii1ese surveillances./
Atlanta
also requested
2 recorders
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on
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11/8/63.
i'ii.th the &ddi tion o:C the 3 c..
additional
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there
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a total
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The 3 additional
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coverage of additional
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recently
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The SCLC and 1.Iartin Luth0r King, Jr.,
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that communists and co!fil:lunist synpathizers
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The 4 surveillances
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Since the Attorney General has alre~dy
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RECOJJf.IENDATIOHS:

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UARTINLUTHERKING
PRESIDErIT, SOUTlillRl{ CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (SCLC)

The following individuals
are known to have
been closely associated
with Reverend King:
(1)

Reverend Ralph Abernathy,
Atlanta,
Treasurer and Financial
Secretary,

Georgia,
SCLC

(2)

Reverend Mansfield Collins,
Los Angeles,
California,
who is associated
with the
Western Christian
Leade1 ..ship Conference

(3) Reverend Logan Kearse, Pastor,
Cornerstone
Baptist
Church, Baltimore,
Maryland .
(4) Reverend Bernard Lee, Atlanta,
Secretary,
SCLC
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Joe Co L-0wery~ Nashville,

Georgia,

Field

Tennessee

(6) Reverend Wyatt T. Walker,. Atlanta,
Georgia,
Executive Assistant
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Director,
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Information received by tlzis Agent indicated that the above
captioned, during the early niorning hours of April 27, 1964,
had been laying up with a local white prostitute and the .prosliLzde
had piclzed up a $100 reward for her services.
This Agent, through
informants, managed to pick up the nanie and number of this white
prostitute and decided to check the above information out for what
it might be worth.
Now, normally a situation like the one mentioned above wouldn't
be considered as anything new, but due to the above captioned's
position as a God-fearing man of the cloth and respected leader of
the NAACP, it was decided that perhaps a casual inquiry made to the
prostitute in question 1night shed an interesting side light to King's
. extra curricular activities.
This Agent phoned tlze above mentioned pros-titute at about 11:45pm
on May 15, 1964 and spoke to a girl named Gail, who agreed to mePt
this Agent at a designated spot on South Fifth Street. However, due
to her being called out at about the same time as this Agent callec.i
her. the meeting eventually came off at about 3 a. m. on .',:fay 16, ·::-54-_
Following is the information that Gail gave this Agent and, I zcri!e zt
as she told it.
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27, 196-1 she zcas called OJ
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Hotel. Gail proceeded to cl:e
Clara Ward in the lobby. After
introducing herseZj to Gail, Clara T1/ardhanded her $100 and said "I
have a coufJle of friends in town that would like t(:, n:eet you and have
you talie ca.re of them." Clara w·ard then stated that lhe reason she w..ts
paying Gail the ;;::.oo
was because these. two men did not believe in
paying a girl for her services and for Gail to keep quiet a"bvut receiving
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Clara Ward then tooli this prostitute, Gail, to the Sands Hotel
bar where they lzad a drinh, then Clara ivard made a p.1:.onecall
and shortly thereafter, Rev. JvJartin Luther Xing-approached them
at the bar and they both accompanied him to his-room in the Sands
Hotel. Clara Ward introduced Gail to the Rev. King as a very good
friend who worked as a dancer in the line at the Tropicana.
Gail stated that she, the Rev. King and Clara Viard all sat down in
his room and started drinking Vodha and Gin drinks and the Rev. King
started telling about his ''juice" around the country, wlzich Gail siat..:d
was apJ;arently told to impress her on what a big man the Rev. King
was. After a short time drinking and bragging, the Rev. King called,
by phone, to another roO'Jnwhere as he said, "my partner is staying,
sleeping off a drunli", and spohe to "his partner", with the following
remarli, "don't call me a black son .of a bitch but get your.danzned
ass down to my room because I have a beautiful white broad here".
He then hung up_and told Gail that he, the partner, told him he would
be down pretty soon.
At this time both the Rev. King and Clara Viard stripped nalzed
and told Gail to do the same. Gail stated that she had anothe,· drink
and then stripped na!?ed and sat down on a chair. At this time, the
Rev. King went down on his lm,ees and started nibbling on her right
breast, while Clara Ward did the smne with her left breast. Gail
then stated, "I guess the Reverend got tired of that and put his head
down between my legs and started nibbling on "that". After a u:lzile
he got up and told Clara Viard to try so-rne of it, so Clara ivard zcent
down on Gail for awhile. Gail stated, "I thi,f?Clara Ward is queer".
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zcitlz her zchi!c Clara Ward set u:.,·in the chclr and nc:cl:u! t::e r::.c::c:;.
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Gail then stated that she was getting scared as they were pretty
drunli and all using filthy language and at last she told Clara Ward
she would have to go. Clara l1/ard then told King that as Gail had
to rehearse the following morning, they would have to leave. The
Rev. King then whispered in Gail's ear, "I would like to try you
sometfrne again if I could get you away from Clara". At this time
Gail and Clara left and had another drink at the bar in the Sands
beJore parting company.
Gail stated to this investigator that "that was the worst orgy
I've ever gone throug!z11 and added that a few days later Clara l-Vard
called her on the phone and asked her to come up to her, Clara's,
room for a few drinks later in the evening,_ which Gail stafed she
refused to do.
The foregoing is a blow by blow account of the Rev. King's extra
curricular activities dz.:,ringhis stay here in our fair city, which
leads me to believe that the good doctor doesn't exactly p-;actice
what he preaches, or does he ?

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Infori:1.a:rion received
by tilis
il1vestig~:tor
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tlle a:1::>ve c~ptio.1eci,
during
the early
;norni!;.:7 hours of April
27, 196i!., i1ac...been layi119 up with a local :•uite prostit"t;."i:e and
the Drostitute
i1ac.. nic:.ceu. u.D a ;>100 re:·rard for tier services.
This investiqa·i:or,
hir:):t<-h
ini'on :~<1.,ri:s, nanaged to Die:.-:: UD t:·rn
m1.r:1eantl nu,-10er of -~l1is Tvhite pros-'dtute
ana decic.ied to ci.1ec1c
"t110 aiJ~;ve ·h::.i'or::mtion out for wimt it mirht be worth.
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ai.JOve
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:·:··~cie·to ti1e prostitute
in ques do;_1 i:li~Jht sbe6
important
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national
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at about 11:4-Spia on i ay 15, 1964 2.~1ci sp0lce to a nirl· na:.1ed
Gail, -;•rhoar,rc2d to ueet tl1is investi~ator
at a ciesirnated
snot on ::iou•~i1 .t•'iftll 0treet.
.w:rnver, <..,.:12·~o her bci:·w call et:
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rei:mr!r, ildoa' t call me a black son of 2 bitch b1.1t net your
c~amneet ass cma to ..iy rooi:i because I J1ave a beau·i:ifttl
,·ihi te
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another
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J.t t~1is tine,
the \.ev. ::ino ~le,i.t dvwn on i1is knees ai1(i started
nib 'blir,c_: on ~V.:!l'"' right
i)re2.s't, u ;iile Clara '.·Tard did t:;-e Sa !'te
with her left breast.
Gail t~wn s·~ateci, 111 f}t:ess ti10 .:.(evercnd
got tire<i. of ti1at a11c"iput :·iis i1c,:.u c'iu:m oe·;;1~eo;1 i::.y lec;s 21,t~
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ni:J,.>linr1 on 11 that 11 • ~~fter a 1·rhile he got up anc told.
Clm~a ·J2.rd to trv s01:ie oi it, so Clara ~fa.rel ·;re-:1t ci,11vn on Gnil
for auhile.
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1vith her 1,;ili:i..e Cl8.ra i~c1..rdsat by in ti1e c~Jair a:rn :.;2..tcl!ed -ti1e
aci:1on.
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off a~( had another
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sec ;,nc~ go arot:.nG.
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that ti~ie, ·anrc 1 s partner,
a ~-~egro I iale,
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Lut-her King, Jr.,
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having Co1111.
Party
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since
his _rise to
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in the qivil
rights
field.
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ilis his principil
advisor Stanley
Levison,
a long-time
secret
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whose memb~rship
in the Communist Party,
USA, has been
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as late
as July,
1963.
Clarence
Jones,
another
close
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to King,
was a former member and in a position
of leadershil•
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organization.
Bayard
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another of Kingts close
advisors,
was a r:ieniber of the Young
1 lcommunist League in the early
1-940 ts and is an adrili tted
bo;uosehual.
On October 10, 1963, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
{ approved tecnri1cal-surveillances
on King~s-current
residence
or
l ~t any -further·
address· to· ·rihich' he -may I:lOVe~;- R~Cal-so· approved
the
tec_hnical :·1:iurveil~ance~ o~ the S<:mthern_ Chr~stian
Leadership.
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New·York ·city Office
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Atlanta,
Georgia,
on November 8, 1963, and
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July 7, 1964,
July 31, 1964, a wire tap was maintained
on the
. )) Southern Christian
Leadership
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on October 21, 1963, Attorney
Genera.l Kennedy authorized
wire tn.p on the Southern
Christian
Leadership
Conference
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::Headquarters
at Atlanta,
Georgia,'which
was maintained
from_
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; N~vember 8, 1963, to June 21, !9~~,_.r;hen
~ttorney
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ordered
it disco~tinued
since
he thought
it might-.,··
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to_ the possible
prosecution
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hotels
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skinned
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BARBAl{A i.100:-cE is

mately 33 years
of age,
a r.,ccretary
,.;.t th:;; main
915 Donth
Apa:i:tment

m)Tnan Avenue 1 Chicago.,
Development
on Chicac:o

33rd 3treeto
Reese Hospital

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in Chicagoo

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repo1·ted
ly close
to PE~ sidcnt
KENNEDY
who bq~an courting
hel'.
KING learned
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i ~.-;uncle rs 't .ood to br,
w:i. th a wh:Ltc girl
residing
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The so-cialled

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wife

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6015-C~TE

JA\lliS !RV1NG~ ab6vd

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October,

1951,

a :robb~~1-y

w;:i.s committed

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and, because of the nature
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at the Amer'icana
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Mr. G.· C. Moore
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SUBJEc-x;.:--CO:t-1MUNIST
INFILTR..A.TION
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the Attorney General requesting
a telephone
surveillance
of Southern Christian
Leadership
Conference (SCLC),
Atlanta~ Georgia, in an effort
to obtain intelligence
of their plans for massive civil .disobedience
in the
Nation's
Capitol and 10 to 15 cities
throughout
the
United States in the Spring of 1968.
BACKGROUND:
On December 13, 1967, you approved an airtel
which was directed
to Atlanta Office requesting
the:-:i to
conduct a survey as to the .feasibility
of instituting
a secure telephone surveillance
of SCLC's headquarters,
. Atlanta,
Georgia.
By communication dated December 20, 1967,
Atlanta recommends installation
and advises it can be
accomplished with full security.

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Since SCLC's President,
Hartin Luther King, Jr.,
has urged massive civil disobedience
throughout
the country
in an effort
to spur Congress into action to help the
plight of the Negro, it is felt that we need this
installation
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SOUTHERN
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100-438794
concerning
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King has warned that these massive
deroonstrations
may result
in riots.
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MARTIN LU'J!h"ERKING, JR.
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coverage
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full column.and
the portion run in the Post are attached.
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made-therein
are beY,ond n-1y know( ledge of the fact.
Several
I know to be untrue.
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there are a number which are true and must come from secret
docuinents,
t~e contents
of which are known or need be known
to only a very few people in the office of the Director
of the
FBI and in the Office of the Attorney
General.
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should become kn.own outside of these offices and appear in the
public press evidences
either a lack of integrity
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of these offices,
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you deen1 feasible
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at the request of the FBI. He ioi·ney Gen.era! that Dr. King
never_ authorized al)Y bugs at tr.-avelcd a lot, so a wiretap_
and Jack A1!derson
,anybody's request."]
might not be too effective.
The question of whether
However, the facts In the Also he said that the wiretap
Bobby Kennedy, wh~n AUor- eavesdropping on Dr. King are would h;we a ?ad. reaction
ncy General ordered wide- irrefutable and we can report among :Negroes.if discovered.
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, m the FBI. Durmg the 1960
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umn has learned that, when' ~ncl his brother, the late I'resAttorney General, Mr. Kenne- 1de11t,had offered to help Dr.
clt ordered a wiretap put on King when he was arrested in
tlic phone of the Rev. Dr. l\iar- Atlanta on Oct. 19 and refused
tin ,.r,u~hcr King .'Tr. . _ _ t?, post . b_on~~fo c?n_neclion
J.,._c1medy demes Ous and \\ iib a civil nghts sit-m.
other· statements that lie or- John F. Kennedy even isdered or condoned the wide- sued a press release offering
scale wirctapni:ig or caves- to help Dr. King, a gesture
dropping und~rtnke1i by the ·which had important effect
li'JH while he commanded the on the Negro vote three weeks
Justice -Department. He states later. In Cook County Jt was
·that nowhere in the ,Justice ihe Negro vote which gave
Department is thrrc io be Kennedy his slender 8000-vote
found n singlr eavesdrop or- margin in lllinois and won
der signed by him.
him the Prcsiclency.
[Pierre Salinger, Srnator
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KennNly's press rcprescnta' ,I
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tivc, gave !he following stale- , \Vhen, therefore, lhc brother
mcnt to Hich:ml llarwoocl of or the President ordered a
The Washington Post, trayel- \\;irelap on Dr. King's phone,
in~ with the Senator in Orr- lhc FBI w,,s amazed and opgo1i;\"While he was Attorney 11o!'cdit. CourlllC'y Evnns, who
Ge}le>ral, 8cn. Kennedy ne>vcr served as Jinison officer beau·:horir.cd. 1111y wil'claps cx-j tm•cn J; Erlr,ar Jfoo\·er and
cept 111national security cases 1Dobhy h.cnnctly, told the Al'
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King suspected Hoover _was
tappin~ his wires. H:wever,
King _never realized that the
person who originally ordered
the m~nitoring was µobert F.
Kennedy, the man who had
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of jail. Later Kennedy _was
one of the n_1ost ~1cadhned
mourners at Kmg's funeral:
. However, we can report
that ihe J.<'J3I
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011 Kennedy's original instructions and submiU.cd re"lil.r re~
H~we\er,, 111October 0 ~ }liat ports 011 King's activities....:
yeai Boob.1 Kennedy si,,,ned rie1ht up until the time of his
at~ 0,r cler. for a tap 0.n Dr. c1iath: They are coiisidered of
Krng s . \\~:·.es, a nd _ lllere:f.tcr some importance now ii, tryJ?r. Km,,, s ph_one conv~isa- ing to ·track down J{ing's astions were momtored.
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to the i·cp;rt(~g
hon bet,, -<m DI. Km., aucl J. of Kine1's nHwemenls around
Edga_r H_oo,·er turned out. the ·the cot;ntry and vi.rious perway it chd.
sons to whom he talked. These
On Nov. 18, J9(H, Hoover :have been checked out for enccalled Dr. King "the most mies and those who mi;;;ht be
notorious liar in the country" interested
in
assassinalin~
«ff.er Dr. King had urged ci\"il- King.
rights workers not to report
'l'hc King wiretap was probviolence to. the l!'BI on the ably the n~ost sensationnl of
ground that li'Bl agents WQrc the taps inspired or ordered
Southerners who would take by Bobby Kennedy when he
no nclion.
was Attorney Gcner:11, but it.
, Dr. King hurried to Wash- was by no menns the only OliC:,
inglon for a showdown with This pha~:c of his government
Hoo,·er. Emeriiing from the Qareer Jws lJcen sc1·ulinizccl
FBl dircclc,r's office after only casually in the>pai;l, How~
their conference, Dr. King ever, the public has a right to
mark a statement surprisingly know all of his rrrorcl hrfore
favorable to the FBI. He had voling on his qu:i1ifir, 1 liuns to'
no critici~m for Hoover. Inti- he President.
m:ill'S 'hc1\'C' lolrl us that Dr. © l!l6S, Rrll-McClure srn•!l,·:L~. 7:ic.

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SENATOR HUGH SCOTT
{R - PE:NNSYLVANIA)
PROPOSED BILL TO COMTvIEMORATE
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

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Over the years we have had very cordial relations with
Senator Scott, and the Director has regularly .wri.tten him on his
re-elections.
He gave a tribute to the Director on the latter 1 s 35th
Anniversary.
The Director sent him an autographed copy of 11A Study
of Communism 11 in 1963.
In addition, on :rviay 11, 1964, the Director thanked Senator
Scott for his splendid comments on i.he Senate floor with regard lo i.lte
Director's admi:1istr3tion of the FBI. On July 15, 196G, the D:rc;::or
sent Senator Scott a letter in connection with the latter's operation at
Bethesda Ka\·al Hospii,J.
On May 3, 19 65, according to a confidential source,
Martin Luther King participated in a panel discussion two days before
in a panel commemorating Law Day sponsored by the Federal Bar
Association.
It was reported th:it Senator Scoit was in attendance at
this meeting and was "fawning" over King who gave the impression during
his speech of trying to justHy disobedience to the law.

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Senator Scott was first elected to the House in 1940 and
was re-elected to seven additional terms.
He ·was in the Navy for two
years during the war and ·was first elected to the Senate in 1958, being
re-elected in 1964.

Enclosure
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Your attention is directed to the attached clipping from
yesterday's ''\V'ashington Daily News" indicating that Senator Hugh Scott
of Pennsylvania proposed that one million bronze commemorative
medals
be struck in honor of T\1artin Luther King. Senator Scott indicated he
would introduce a bill to authorize the medals and "a gold medal to be
presented to Dr. King's widow. 11 According to the article, the medals ·
would be sold at cost to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Fund
for Education at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

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now pending on the Hill.
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In view of Senator Scottts friendly and cooperative attitude
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Jack Ande:::-son called
and stated
he wanted to s.peak.
in confidence.
I told him if it.concerned
an official
matter I could not agree with this stipulation:
He stated
he me::cely w2.nted to tip me off that Drew Pearson will hl!\,ve
l an .a1--ticle on Frid2.y, 5/2 1:!:/68, alleging that forme1" AG Bpbby
Kennedy ordered the FBI to place a wire.tap
on Martin Luther
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who·have been friendly
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however, they felt
that Kennedy should-receive
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I told him that,
as
he had been advised once before,
the FBI would not become
involved in bitter
political
struggles
and that the record
;should-be
quite clear concerning
this fact.
Anderson said
ihe well understood
our position,
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King's communist affiliations
arid sex life
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rumor was true that was going around Washington
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that Bobby Kennedy had .specifically
asked the FBI
lteotap the tvlephone of Uartin Luther King. I told Weisl I had not
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I asked him what prompted
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faci,
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this was when the information
I asked Weisl why he was now asking
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Sr., had also di$cussed
the matter with Pearson.
Weisl
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to this matter b~ing
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I told him it appeared
as if the
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I stated
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things
in mind, i.e.,
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of how
sue~ an article
was written,
a segment of tho Negro population
of the
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Weisl stated
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this action.
I told Weisl that,
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certain
Negro groups
would still
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action or not.
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if the FBI felt so strongly
about it.
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held no. brief for Kennedy, in view of the shoddy way in ·which
he had treated
the.FBI;
however, we did Pot want to be involved
in ~ny political
maneuvers and action of- this nature would most
certainly
concern politics.
Weisl stated he would try to keep
this from appearing.
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article
on the
!Dil:ector a statement
that the FBI had several
tapes on Martin Luther
}King, as a result ·of the utilization
of microphones.
This fact has
%also appeared in a number of other newspapers.
Apparently
Weisl
ihas discussed
this matter with Pearson---Pe~-rson
desiring
to print
Bthe facts in order to embarrass Kennedy.
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through the medium of memoranda
written
by former employee Courtney Evans, that_ Kennedy first
· requested
electronic
coverage;
however, Evans succeeded
in talking
him out of it.
Several months later Evans approached
Kennedy and
'.requested permission
for such coverage,
at which time Kennedy approved
this coverage.
While an expose of such facts could obviously
hurt
iitennedy, such action would also harm the FBI from a public relations
We, therefore,
should have no part in it and should
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BIBLIOGRAPHY(MARTINLFTHERKING)
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Books b;r King
Stride

Toward FrRedor.i, 1958, Harper,

Measure of a Man, 1959, United
Strength

to Love, 1963, Harper,

Why We Can't

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439-410

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Without

Suffering

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13, 1960,
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"Time for
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God? 11

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from address,

1':ation,

For a New South,

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13, 1962, pp. 209-10.

October

">='ol--ur••r..,...
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Fetruary

March 3, 1962, ppq 190-30

Freedom Has .Co~'=,11 N~w York Ti:r;es 1':agazine,
10, 1961, p. 25 plus.
.

"Who Is Their

"Boycotts

!'!ation,

t

Il

91-95.

29, 1960, pp. 24-25.

February

I
f

Century,

4, 1961, pp.

Newsweek,

U. S. News 8: 1•Torld Reuort,
11

5, 1957, p. 7080

24, 1958, p. 320

Christian

n

February

"Full-scale

from addressir
June

February

rrwonviolence and Racial Justice,
February 6, 1957, ppo 165-67.

pp.

by King

Moves to Fore:
excerpt
June 5, 1957, p. 700

"Negro and Negroes,n

"Equality

•

Article

I

 -

"

nHammer of Civil

Rights,

"In a Word--Now,"
pp. 91-20
nrs It
August

•

Nation,

0

to Break
p. 6.

f.

l:l'arch 9, 1964,

New York Times l1ag-azine,

l\ll Right
12, 1963,

i
pp.

230-4.

September

29,

1963,

I

The Law?n U. 'S. News and "'.lorld Renort,

rrrt' s a Diff'icul t Thing to Teach the
interviews,
Look? November 17, 1964,
"Letter
From a Birmingham .Jail,u
.June 12, 1963, pp. 767-730

11 excerpts
President,
pp. 61 pluso

Christian

from

Century,

"Eartin
Luther King's Reaction:
A Stc=itement and a Disagreement,"
U.S.
News & World Renort,
November 30, 1964, p. 58.
"Negro
0

Is Your BrothAr,tt

Speaking

Out,n

Saturday

Atlantic,

1'.:vening Post,

nTwo Persnectives,
one Goa1,n
Time, 12/18/64,
p. 21.
'Visit

with

1

1~artin

Luther

nBehind the Selma ~arch,
p. 16 plus.

accepts

King,n
11

Saturday

"Let

of a Brighter

.Justice

"Next

Step:

"FnChristia:r.
nFreedcr::'s
pu.

288-92.

the

Christian,"
Cr::.sis:

l&st

15,

st~ep

ascent,"

7, 1964,

Peace

12,

1965,

1963,

pp.

34-56

pp.

269-74 ..

pp.

November

13,

1965,

p.

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1965,

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March,

p.

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~l'or:v, Aufust,

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Review,

Ebony,

llarch

'!-Iorth" Saturdav

Nobel

to vote,"

Tomorrow,"

Roll, ,r. Nation,

1963,

November

Look,

"Civil
Right r~umber One: : right
i-~arch 14, 1965, p. 7 plusc
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October,

1966,

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nNew Negro Threat:
Mass Disobedience,"
excerpts
from address,
U.S. News~ World Renert, August 28, 1967, p. 10.
trnternational
Evening--Martin
Luther King,
Publisher's
•·TP.ekly~ June 9;9, 1967, p. 52.
1

nMartin Luther King Defines Black Power,"
Magazine, June 11, 1967, DP• 7 plus.

NW

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MARCH 31,

I need not
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to be here

standing

in this

and all

morning,

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talce at
the

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least

enjoy

for

envolvement

goodwill

all

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as a subject

found
that

Book,

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that

that

sure

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one

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friends

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remember

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two passages

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our nation.

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in worship

deep and meaningful
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 together

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rid

and live

last

that

not

and poisons
more urgent

of the

disease

is

the

whole

America

of racism.

death

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times,

he goes

send

to remain

to know

of life,

awake

challenged

to

from our

racial

injustice

is

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The disease

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positive

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morning

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can

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racism.

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of America.

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the

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ri~ht

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his

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to

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say

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stop

in slavery

as a result

to
years.

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by Abraham Lincoln.

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a person

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him and say now you are
crutch

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by himself

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of

of over-reliance

to rise

ethnic

hard

forces

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he is
all

this

and realize

is kind

by his

no other

they

time

•ri;ht.

if

individuals

primitive

of poverty,

he must do it

the Negro must lift

comes through

of the

Now those
out

and wait

human progress

Without

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of slum conditions,

and segregation,

It

help

to do

philosophy.

if the Negro is to rise

that

of God.

an ally

g_ets around.

boot-strap

around

work of dedicated

So we must

always

see

of inability.

to be co-workers

itself

who sit

come to

and persistent

who are willing
work,

good people

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rolls

-

give

guilty

go up to
him any

him any money to get
feet.

Yet this

is

some
the

 very
set

thing

that

him free

what

and just

to do.

nation

our nation

of the

share

with

grunt

povor

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their

have

every

who tell

Negroes

bootstraps.

is

in our country.

tragedy

of racial

closely

related

another

challenge.

hungry

must

lift

right

at night.

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of the

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are

themselves

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in federal

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nation
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deep

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poverty

people

ones

himself

say

are

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hamlets

and

by their

jest

to

years

a man to lift

octopus,

of land

force

of dollars

challenged

an

them to farm.

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into

through

so they

and they

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day , thousands

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but

to lift

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agents

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knowing

was willing

teach

to tell

the

it

simply

acres

of

of economic

is

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man,

men to

to farm,

to racis ~ that

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that

millions

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prehensal

the world.

sent
county

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in o~ ~c r to

tools

seizing

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word poverty.

meant

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which

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all

bootstraps.

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away millions

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low-interest

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year

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man that

nagging

not

given

provide

farms,

subsidies

less

hini in ignorance,

for

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provided

persons

by his

man.

man the

to them.

did they

very

has

the white

to the

l{now that

Mississippi

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mechanize

black

to do anything

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west

left

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failed

did

-

world
are

all

its
over

go to bed
ill-nourished.

 -

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it

I have

this

seen

in Latin

America;

poverty

in A~ia.

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India.
marvelous
of India

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forget

to meet

thousandsd

people

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will

all

those

in Christendom

literally

millions

night

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on the

million

they

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people

Calcutta

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we Anericans
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say we are

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we can store

vi

that

millions
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of

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.

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thousands

to

of people

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some years

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to me as long

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remain

great

and talk

to ta~with

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will

experience

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c.,;_v.Liars a

food
children
national

 -

budget
than

establishing
basing

military

our genuine

to alleviate

poverty·

nation

there

are

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seen

ghettos

I have

the

process

of touring

it

in Quitman

tell

streets

their

fathers

they
them,

they

money here
their

them in Appalachia.

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t~nclothcd,

to

trying
trying

1

them

they

- no welfare

didn't

of

get

only

season

berries.

When the

rabbit

and that

is

and catch

a few rabbits

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a little
to feed
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were

anything.

so.-::ethin 6 .

we pick

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on ...

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Head Start

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in

myself

and girls

I saw their

on the

to carry

day,

in the

llack boys

The Federal

...

county

been

found

other

of

and I cust

country

the

to wear.
carry

and fathers

age pension

poorest

have

I

I literally

Mississippi

of little

and there;

children

of our

where

the

were trying

stricken.

areas

many areas

trying

poverty

rural

no shoes

had no money.

I have

you in our

I have seen them in the

some situation

with

who are

in order

in the

you I saw hundred

the

people

remind

rather

them

seen

county,

world,

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crying.
is

is

the

and understanding

and there.

north.

south.

around

I would

40 million

the

confess

concern

abroad.

them here

of the

bases

-

I said.

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hoW\ie

berry

season
get

comes,
it.

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I was in Newark and Harlem
the

homes of welfare

wall-to-wall
talked

and this

won't

repair

place.

victim

and coillngs
night

11

night.

from getting

you pay for

this

it

more for

such

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living

40 million

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because

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man.

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rats

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the

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in

the

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are

forced

and said
to pay

rears

so often.

Because

America

are

expressways

is
carrying

a man went to hell

The man was Diabees

was a poor

froCT his

how a little

-

he could

that

- Now when he died,

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poor.

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$125.

tha:e

poor

out

I said

Tragedy

because

2 years.

awake to keep

are ambittered.

And there

had fallen

the

children.

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one day.

feed

body.

about

$GO.

of the

a parable

told

to stay

conditions.

people

~here

and

landlord

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and so rich

away from the

hole

the

here

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to the

worth

living

poisoning.

apartment.

isn't

been

into

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to me even

repair.''

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and roaches

to myself

said

and the

conditions

rats.

1 have

of lead

falling,

after

I saw such

mother

He has not made a single
boy was the

week and I walked

- wall-to-wall

welfare

the

this

just

mothers.

carpets

-

table.

Diabees

(Phonetic).

man in Nazareth

hardly

move.

Diabces
went

to hell

who was

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did

nothinz

- there

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to

 a rock

-

between

parable
rich.

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that

says

Jesus

never

wealth.

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and Jesus

that

that

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universal

all

surgery

and not

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look

between

distance

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setting
at that

rich

go to hell

realize

his

that

wealth

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because

and minimized

because

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to help

bridge

to hell

..

the

gulf

America

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to get
the 1.lill.

between

rid

of

new is
poverty.

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It

day.

you

Diabees

was Diabees

Diabees

day and didn't
his

because

richest

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really

brother

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is

have

A"1eri..ca

has

of

have

world.
c·· ,:·:,rt:!·r-:::-·.-

nots.

nothing
the

question
are

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in the

we now have
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the

because

and the
It

to hell

to become in-

country

This

that

Now Abraham

Old Testament,

In a fc·.v ·.i.eei;:s, s01:1e of us

145

had long-

to Diabees.

Lazarus.

the

tool:

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can do it.

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angels

men of his

that.

all

its

conversation

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the

with

wrong

is whether

resources

every

maximum.

to Auerica

poverty.

and all

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he allowed

went

the

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we have

Lazarus

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can hap9en

parable

was an opportunity.

he passed

visible.

a universal

he was rich.

him from brother

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question

because

against

forth

tlle

richest

he was

was prescribing

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man.

see he was one of the

didn't

with

and hell.

because

in that

young man came to him

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calls.

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will

heaven

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indictment

...

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place

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an individual
diagnosis.

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made the

is true

told

and Diabees.

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to do

techniques
is whether

co;.1in;

to

and

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to

see

to Washington

if

the

will

is

still

in a poor-peoples

pride

along.

all

those

who have known long .years

long

to bring

and carved
adults,

a doctor

or dentist

in any

Government
read

created

in certain
liberty

or income,

for

the

ago.

around
is

coming

~ay because
qu~stions

involved

it

is

until

it

is

is here

He merely

exists.

huge promise

o~r

We met here

some years

growth

experience

the

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146

We
That

their

are

Creator

have

We are

corning

signs

traumatic

non-violent

between

promises.fulfilled.

a nation

a

possibility

'of prophetic

massively.

doesn't

move

when the

po0~

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something

should

be done.

House conference

same recommendations
but

all

life,

nor

es,ecially

us that

be dcr.:r~ndin'.;; in our cai:-:)ai~;n here,

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ago in a White

We came out with

to demand the

a man doesn't

liberty,

confronted

to tell

if

a

seen

of poverty.

nor

the

never

endowed with

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to engage
to

coming

is

coi.1tn~ to

among these

of rran11ine rquality,

documentary

rights.

to

not

We

to bring

be self-evident.

are

life,

to bring

life

who have

problem

That

of happiness.
to be true

We're

~·ie are

to

they

rights.

attention

going

the

of happiness.

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to call

this

That

he has neither

pursuit

to ask Anerica

it

truths

inevitable

job

action

these

equal.

and pursuit

years

to

bringing

and neglect.

sign.

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itself

going

that

lives.

coming

is

come to feel

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~-~~ ~r~~~~l?~

to adjust

we are

of hurt

people.

in thc:i.r

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Everyone

masses,

no exit

and old

one day we hold

men are

the

who have

door with

children,

engage

those

alive.

campaign.

his

a1--e going

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-

nothing

..

has

on civil

that

we will

been

done

 about

-

it.

The President's

automation

and economic

some time
Board

ago.

which

country,
things

leading

done,

still

have

come out

been

done.

goodwill
this

will

this

their

poor.

report,

just

a great

able

say we built

of other

been

is

souls

the

in terms

of

to

its

to

subcarines

to

penetrate

many other

thin~s

of

seens

I can

hear

kiss

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till

before

America.

scientific

nation.

America

depths.

to

span

we will
the

HE

made our

We brought

sayin~

be

seas.

we have

and technological

God and history

the

God and history.

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Ye~,

of

be a poor

done.

sky.

the

people

our

to

has

I believe

will

bridges

oceantic

_-

ago.

facing

we've

gargantuan

buildings

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responsibilities

stand

things

these

in motion.
it

our

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a cor.1passiona-ue

and

of

have

be done

question

is

have

said

a few days
will

things

cities

done.

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obligations

talk

that

and

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have

nothing

nation

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hugh

a Presidential

has

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built

done.

been

nothing

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met its

to

has

difference.

campaign.

not

these

hearts

make the

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has

recommended

businessmen,

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put

peoples

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on technology,

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the

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power.

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war

find
and

can

say

an alternative

I fear

solve

that

the

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one other

social

a lot

challenge
to

~ar

of

people

problems

of

and

we face
bloodshed.
feel

mankind,

this
is

-

 -

sleepini

through

a revolution.

occasion

mankind

must put

end to mankind.
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are

will

wars

world.

that

has ever

in Geneva

our nations.
vast

spending

regime

spend

only

one,

a year

poverty-stricken

fH~od~ :: of the

our o~n house

in

stacked

every

person
poverty

away fron
Vietnar10se
order.

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force

c,:..;::c bac:~ :--.0.:0,

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the

line

ca.n't

i:cardly

and see that

so~ething

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must

alienated

but we end up morally

,.

1:

li·.:e

of God is on us today.

be done quickly.
nations

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world

this

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to rise

to the

of

against

trying

poverty.

in

of

destiny.

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of appearing

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self-determination

about

put us in a position

c~llcd

the

we spend

up

industrial

of reactionaries

Vietcong

for

of the

forces

domestic

we

most

has torn

military

is

an

today

history

every

against

railes

on one

one of the

us in a position

our

or so-called

thousand

is

in the

the

that

even a good skirmish

ten

it

because

to kill

$500,000

time we kill

late

war in Vietnam

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havoc with

every

are

that

the

of people.

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this.

has put us against

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majority

protection
world.

it

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before

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progress

must hear

a war I am convinced

fighting

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this

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.world.

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nations

Korea,

and a few others,

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put

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point

if

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continues,

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the

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be transforLled

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for

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alternative

this

suspension

of nuclear

the

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United

and

be a civilization

holocaust.

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even

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the

ny cause

conscience

of

critics

me on.

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today

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so ~ell

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NW 55097

the

is why I am raisin~

the

The

raay well

that

I can to arouse

the war in Vietnam,
say

and the

an inferno

I renember

lead

is no longer

of nuclear

- this

Mank.ind must

come to the

and nonviolence.

~hole

abyss

into

could

to strengthen

the

the

inevitably

to greater

alternative

South

an end to manl;:ind.

which
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alternative

thereby

3orking

China,

violence

Thailand,

an end to the war in Vietnam

and nonexistence

armanent,

could

put

we will

annihilation.

nonviolence

tests,

put

Taiwan,

is where we are.

an end to war or vmr will

best

their

li·ke

that

you really

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ought

to change

say,

Sir,

I am sorry

consensus

leader.

position

because

today

that

is

an active

challenge

maintain
the

confront

stacked

truly

great

there.
i.s

:1)

Goliath

go this
been

in the

that

the

lndeJen~cnce,
Star

two centuries,
the

cotton

for

justice

time

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we will

we will

be like

be.

a people

here.

Ccfore

Leiore

and oppressive

say

going

thG

tne

to

to cet

whose

destiny

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LeautilJl

we were

labored
the

the

here.

were written,

built

David

I'll

but we are

·.;c ·,,ere

really

~ake Anerica

here

hon;.es of the
conditions.

..

~or~s

here.

with

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55097

campaign,

scorned,

our forefathers

the r.iost humiliating

in this

called.to

of. /,•::crica.

by saying

I'r.i gonna

oe're

Banner

they

is

This

a~d peace.

and I believe

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cane,

that

to

of the

Then we close

This

he must

of good will

spring

destiny

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it

but

war no more.

in justice.

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us.

tal\'.e the

I believe

of despair.

God, grant

Anerica

We have

tied

study

to struggle

against

line.

up against

I 1 ll

gonna

the

in the words

modern man.

ahead

right.

people

Say,

to a politician

who stood

you that

all

is

As we come to Washington

a goal

the

for

we ain't

yield

are

need

nor popular

him it

conscience.

days

hope.

cards

the

I am not

when one must

political
tells

facing

we have twelve
I would not

neither

at him and I had to

know me.

comes a time

conscience

old Negro spiritual,
is the

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stop

us,

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of

God are

our
embodied

in our over-gro~ing

demand.

I still

can sing,

overcome.

overcome

because

- we shall

overcome

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can live

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of God within

With this

we will

and peace.
sons

faith,

of our

course

God grant

newness,

and the

together

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own.

earlier

scaffold

of brotherhood.

it,

right.

singing
that

national

in this

and brotherhood

sing

his

the

symphony

is

unl;;:nown standard

dh1

above

we shall

right

scaffold.

to transform

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as we were

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watch

to a ~eautiful

development.

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be able

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to grow and develop.

of slavery

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that

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continue

cruelities

win our freedom

nation

they

this

magnificent

bring

about

That

day the

of God will

a new
norning
sho~t

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SPEECHBY :MARTIN
LUTHERKING
BROADCAST-BY
STATIONWOLAT 8:30 P.M., 3/31/68
UNI'flAN:( Commentator on WOL) Black ministers
country

recently

leadership.
speech

KING:

met to attack

many issues;

have had fellowship

a real

profound
sense,

experience.
life

for

lifted

be returning

a mountaintop,

to the valley.

to be returning

of young people

in moments of despair

because

bread

Docld

a sense

of eternity.

in a few hours
calls

us.

of poverty.

We're going

with

with

thousands

and

faith

in Ame~ic~.

b:ack

people

of their
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in,

a minute

~re

circumstances
themselves

out with PAUL (LAWRENCEDUNBAR)(ph) a cr~st
to sleep

we

with men and women

they unconsciously

and a corner

inspired,

filled

who lost

f~lled

moments in

The •valley

filled

We go bac~ to a valley

crying

NW 55097

to valleys

In

where we are

that

to valleys

many

has been a mountaintop

transfiguring

who know the ache and anguish

and ever again

this

and where we feel

be returning

we

presentations~

so many of us,

But I want to say to you today

thousands

the closing

and we have heard

and passionate

when we do ascend

We will

of community

we have deliberated;

together,

There are those

where we are

will

the

group.

We have discussed

eloquent,

the problems

Dr. Kil'JG as he delivers

We join

to this

from around

to smile,

of
and

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-

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•
an (

) to weep in,

trouble,
that

and never

is

life.

a laugh

Now these

we must go back to.
of Negroes
island

of poverty

that
poor,

called

the

words are

oppressed,

unemployment

a social

community.

government

welfare.

lives

The fact

b~o:hers
subsidized

credit

people,
Negroes

is on welfare

in this

black

call

it

people,

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in the

for

subsidies;
they

in this
with

that

take

call

country

federally
our white

w~~~

of go percen~.
The problem

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a

called

is \·,1henever the

was built

country.

communities,

you have massive

everybody

money to the tune

Whenever

is a depression

were tu!l:

of

when you deal

it's

and poor

and the highways

out ~o ~he sut~rbs

realm

and privileges
they

is that

Suburbia

in the

thing

opportunities

for

on welfare.

subsidized

Now the other

and rich

do it

that

majority

separated.

community,

that

ocean. of material

Whenever

is that

vast

and

on a lonely

used

in the

problem.

provides

people

the

valley

the

of a vast

The fact

it

is that

in the midst

depression.

when they

in the

perishing

in the white

white

are

still

unemployment

black

cries

are

different

you have massive
it's

as the moans come double,

Now you lmow what happens

semantics
the

of joy to a peck of

The fact

in America

prosperity.

with

a pint

..

~veryto~y
is

that

we

 ·•
all
free

too often

have socialism

enterprise

problem.

•

capitalism

for

the rich

has made for a lot

of bitterness,

and a lot

the situation

ended up in explosions

of despair,

see a riot

of the suffering

the gains

that

We have to face

this

This anger

point
loss

of life

that

poverty

the only thing

grant

or what have you, and that's
change has come; no schools
quality

integrated

problem

has not been solved

we have to face
ard

yet

see that
in this

education

cc::-.ethir.;;

it

has

should

ago America signed

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outweigh

token
(squares)

no substantive

as a result.
as a result

more

The job
of the ri_ots;
as an answer,

see this

to get tr.:'..s ~e.:; ::..c;: t.:,
to see that

have a job or an income.

a huge promissory

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it;

has a moral responsibility

country

.

far
cities.

have moved toward

to be dcne

they

as the result

hydrant

about

So I don•t

it.

few

no substantive

we see is a quick

and maybe some water

has

of view the

change has come to America or to any city
of a riot;

last

of our burned

) fact

(

cqmmunity;

as the answer;

and the

come as a result

is serious,

over the

pay off as from a practical

enormity

the

in the black

of violence

)

made for a lot

worse everyday.

I don't

summers, and yet

that's

problem

of anger

is getting

and (

the poor;

As you know the economic

and this

don•t

for

note

everyb~dy
Years

and placed

it

 •
in its
all

·e

Declaration

men being

of Independence

created

equal,

and then

say they are endowed by their
creed

men.

white
And it

men; it

rights

it

said

that

that

are neither

is necessary

said,

but it

now we will
country,
celebrate
a life
liberty

are

derived

lived

celebrate

it.

we

knorm?

by

.

came from,

the dim mist

of

is what the nation
Eight

years

of independence
man will

have we known?

from

in this

be able

Too often

of misery

and poverty.

Too often

it

is merely

to
it

frcm r.0w.

eight

or nine

of government

years

with an outline

Because,

number one,

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155

..

s

tr.e

if we can celebrate

it

1

What

I don·

now why do we have to go?

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basic

liber-;:;y -co rr:ove f'ror.-. c.ne s :;.u.-:1-co another

going to the seat

NW 55097

totalitarian

had certain

Now this

the black

What life

black

which ultimately

where they

200 years

of unemployment,
have

else

up to that.

but I wonder if

didn't

from or conferred

to discover

God-given.

hasn't

men; it

from other

to move back behind

they

went on to

men which includes

each individual

In order

eternity,

all

our form of government

the state.
it

all

said

about

and you know this

goes on to say something

distinguishes
regimes;

says

it

Creator,

did not say some men, it

say all

and talked

i,;

~.nc·,\

Now

c~ de~~nds;
we must

 find

an alternative,

timid

supplication

for

way to transmute
a creative
reason

the

(

a

) waves of the

ghetto

into

Well,

are angry;

reason

is that

of civil

rights

blaclc man until
doesn't

I'm tired

it

about

be done about
that

we face

mention

source

after

everything

they

that

already

written

Progress

said

Rights

said

it.

said

everything

after

Page

156

to

jail;

.•..

I'm

not

the

economic
I could

Presidential

commissions

we gonna

it

•...

tney have

should

House Conferen~e
riot

it

something

that

the

you the truth,

community.

and said

the Detroit

for

pressure;

der.1and in Washington

the wnite

moves on

that

about

an

reason.

equality

of going

three

down on paper

are

never

I tell

are saying

source;

one

that

Now everybody

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did;

in the black

we will

it;
it;

or genuine

the slums,

problems

it;

for

country

I'm tired

but many people

have said

this

I wish it

of marching;

everybody

people

s made to move through

happen;

being very honest

should

I

that's

and you got to give

so we need to go to Washington

the question

Docld

and find

they are bewildered,

But the other

NW 55097

on the other

force.

we need to go; people

outlet,

on the one hand and

justice

and constructive

frustrated;

just

the riots

be

of Civil

a group was formed

 -

•
called

Urban Coalition

the big cities

with the mayors in most of

in our country,

conservative

mayors agreed

to come into

being

jobs;

this

and even some of the

that

to provide

a massive
jobs for

program

everybody

is what the Urban Coalition

but you had on there

down the line.

for everything

that

broke from its
like

past

this

be talking

for the first
policies

and said

urgent

that

we are gonna be asking

should

action

the

desirous

and the

about
is now;

things

The Harris

for.

about

poll

feel

that

being

of working;

64% of the American people

be eradicated,

history,

of not editorializing

program ought to come into

jobs for everyone
that

in Washington.

in its

68% of the American people

that

revealed

time

and they recommended all

kind of massive

provide

outstanding

in a document

about

the time for

it's

revealed

some of the

They have asked

we'll

"Newsweek" magazine,

things

of it

DAVIDROCKEFELLER,
HENRYFORD, and you can

businessmen,
go right

desiring

came out with.

LEANSER(ph) had been one of the architects
and others,

has

feel

communities

some
to

it

that

rebuilt

slums
by the

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.;Ob program.

nation
sitting

about

this

around

They aren't

seems there

thing,

fiddling

going

and yet
while

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our Congress

the cities

to do a single

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is a con~er,sus

thing

::-...--itr.:?

is

are burning.
until

we act· :~md

 until

•

we act massively,

crisis

in this

until

nation,

and we are

some 15 communities.
poor people

a thorough

hearted

with

just

Pharoah.,

to start

out ·with this

demands,

group to set
and every

the pattern

week we just

and start

change.

This is a poor people's

And I urge

you to do it

know, you find

fighting

it

forget

our poorer

because

in your

brothers

NW 5509 ·7

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we demand
who

for poor people.

means.
there

of float

to a degree,

of the back waters.
to be ignored;

day

come in a

really

who kind

- 7 -

every

is so much of our

this

congregations;

class

we want

coming in

saying

will

something

of the m3.instream

the stench

keep

campaign .. and those

is what our ministry

among us in the middle

waters

for

hard-

out and then

more affluent

role

this

with

you gotta

to Washington,

supportive

ministry;

would be

want waves of people

back grievances

come who are a little

of

to be sure we have a disciplined

bringing

flovring

and that

one plague;

group

3.,000

of the demands

and we want waves and waves;

plaguing

now

in the discipline

wave, but you see you don 1 t·deal
Pharoah

right

start .. out with

understanding

they must be their

the first

'

We want to

a non-violent

organizing

who have been trained

non-violence,
because

we create

are

You
som~

out or

and they

We must not allow

we, as preachers,

must

 join

hands with them.

is separation.

PAUL KILLECK (ph)

What represents

see going

on in our nation

separated

from ourselves,

and finally

separated

Washington

to try

and I said

earlier

these

men around

they

to deal
it

church,

same time are

about;

not saying

I don't

preachera

civil

~re tote

rights

got to do~

in your communities

lot

in salaries;

mind saying

to this

in action.
me~bers

you
to you

committed

It

is not

and board

organizations
that

~~en~ifiad

Washington.

cuts

mind asking

it

with

We n8ed your support
into

to the

in SCLC, and I am

but I am saying

( 3oJr,e applause)
to get people

a church

men who

couli make much more,

here

are preachers

other

not be supported,

you've

they

most of the staff

that

to

problems,

dedicated

and I don't

this,

SCLC is a church,
that

going

They're

are humble enough to take

members and leaders

that

do the work.

we want you to leave

no accident

from our neighbors,

is not MARTINLUTHERKING; it's

we need your support;

today that

we're

with some of these

me, they

but they are doing

sin

what we

and in the world;
separated

I knovr what I'm talking

that

more than

from God, and we are

are humble but at the
struggle;

it

is right;

should

is conviction
2J~~ b~~~u:e

to ;;-::t

t,-.1st:s

We got to feed

of things.

would help us,

If

everyone

America will

lt

a.r,d

people;
of you
see a

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movement that

it

has never

to moving., people

will

people

of people

on these

coming from?

Who are

someone to go in there
i1'iississippi

there

we get

and say they

and Alabama.

highways.

Detroit.,

Where

And I want

they?

are coming up out of

And I want somebody to go by

and say they are coming from the ghettos

Chicago,

and I

to go to the window and look out

I see a lot

are these

After

be coming from everywhere,

want some congressman
and say,

seen before.

Newark,

New York,

of

and Philadelphia.

I want somebody to say they are coming up out o~ great
trials;

they are coming up out of years

years

of hurt.

Who are

want somebody else

they?

to add,

And I want somebody just
count
that

them all,

but it

.•..

How many do· you see out there?

about

this,

seems there

I am fired

the nation

on to sa:,· thz..--;; these

clergymen
altruisT..
dangerous
others.

are

a committed

altruism;
Jesus

told

ended up saying

da:;s

empathy~

up over Washington

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need this.
that

another
a lot

Page

•••

and I am

And I am going

demand for us a:::

And a kind of dangerous

parable,

ourselves

a
to

"One day a man came

of questions,

who is my neighbor?

160

to

need to be a number

we have got to give

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been trying

This is what is demanded of us tod~y,

to Him and raised

NW 55097

I've

I want you to be in Washington

serious

and

And I

These are they.

to say,

no man can number.

of neglect

and finally
11

Now that

he
question

 could have very easily
But Jesus
air

immediately

and placed

a.nd Jericho,

it

pulled

question
curve

it.

Finally

another

race.

because

I thought

And I want to tell
about

in the Holy Lands.

it

I don't

was a man of

times

religious

law which said

service,
that

and then

they

maybe they
that

conference;

were following

a Jericho

road improvement

felt

it

was better

cause of the source

carrying

on a religious

we say that

this

of this

parable,

is possible
because

association,

these

they were afraid.

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at the

·goes somewhere e:se.

men went on the
And it's

other

possible,

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to organize

than get bogged ~own in an

my i~agination

that

is a possibility

and maybe they

to get at the problem,

rather

a

one was not to touch

before

sometimes

of

were busy;

maybe the men were going down to Jericho

that

been

Why? .•• did the

we say that

we say that

a human body 24 hours

it

and we come out with a lot

sometimes

times

about

when I've

they had to get down to some ecclesiastical
at other

fell

have to go

you a little

several

Jerusalem

man that

We ask the question:

and the Levi pass,
ideas;

between

the man who helped

debate.

out of mid

about a certain

You know the story,

through

imaginary

that

on a dangerous

and He talked

among thieves.

Priest

ended up in a philosophical

..

side

too

you see,

It

 •
that

when that

Levi and Priest

they

said

maybe the man is

he is

that

just

seizure,

there

to lure

and now they

robbers

are still

out of this
question

stand

asked;

and help

about

this

cause,

home get bombed?

question

Will

I get

is divorced

from the problem.

is so often

the question

get put off the poverty

weigh.
first

question

This

took my position

get on and get

question

this

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162

happen

to

So often
our

happen

lose

I

I am in?

we raise.

a

Will my

or will

That
to me

Yeah, will

\rfnat will

happen

I

to me?

I do not take a stand,

qu~stion

that

in my life;

against

what

~e al~ h~ve to
I remember when I

the war in Vietnam,

- 11 NW 55097

question:

If I take

What will

board?
is if

the

of life.

that

that

man, what will

reversed

put in jail,

that

it

The first

happen to me?

group

is the

I have weighed

maybe the

saying:

what will

in a particular

suffering?

that

our prestige,

ourselves

my prestige

But the great

and easy

the man, what will

our jobs,

and Ne find

for

to help

and maybe

quick

the first

good Samaritan

That is the ultimate

positions,

for

You know the words.

But the

we are thinking

a faker,

have said

was if' I stop

If I do not stop

man over there,

and we better

the Priest

happen to me?

him?

could

around,

the Levi asked,

just

us over

situation.

that

saw that

..

almost

 every

newspaper

bother

in the

low period
wasn't

took

the

in my life;
only white

not only priests,

ghettos

past.

And every

sanitary

house.

industries
stomachs

Prophesy

be a thing
man will

no longer

end of a prayer,

but the

our state

houses

who will

do justly,

walk humbly with
even the

none shall

lion

agenda.
and city

and the

be a;:'raid.

may cause

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it

lamb

It

one of your

slums

to live

and ratand a dark

in a decent

until

the

vital

and the

wrinkled

Go out and prophesy.
be the

first

end of a world,

item

will

of business

be filled

love mercy,

won I t always
children

- 1.2 -

Until
.;nd

be easy.

It

men

and who will

to ask you,

so much? 11

Until

with

down torether.

can lie

may mean weary nights.

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When God speaks,

God. -Go out and prop~e~y.

do you have to go to jail
a job;

we are

Go out and prophesy.

halls

who will
their

I must rush

dead past

filled.

will

legislative

open a newspaper.

until

be able

with

was a

was Negroes.

of the

are

agree

it

are revitalized,

of Mississippi

They don't

I want to say that

of Appalachia

on every

it

it

Go out and prophesy

brotherhood

at the

hardly

but we are prophets.

who can but prophesy.
infested

at first,

I could

but

me.

too many people

position

people·;

on to my conclusion,

Until

critized

me too much now because

me, but when·r

It

country

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11

Daddy,

may mean losing

why

 It may mean standing
but if we are
Christianity

followers

ease.

taking

it

bearing

that

cross

Christ
up the

leave,

cross

transforming

When people

burning.

so let
let
it

give-up-itis,

lose

us go on and disrupt

is dark now; it

may tarry

the r.orn:.!-:_:.

o:--!,I

and sisters

for

to wait

to give up on non-violence,

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that

is

into

the

die

the

as we
filled

with

job of
buoyancy

spiritually

flame

of hope

they

develop

a disease

develop

a kind

of nihilistic

that
for

you can't

change

disruption's

anything,

sake;

the

but ~crning

a night,

tut

will

surely

~oy cc~~th

th a.t.

until

in
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the morning;

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don't

black

nationalists

who want

don•t

give

we haven't

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We need to

young men and young women that

be:::.eve

tell

up the

and finally

hope,

is dismal,

come; weepin~

soul.

they

hope,

and

marks of

We have the

hope,

which concludes

give up too early;

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the very

Jesus,

and they

us go back and tell

brothers

leaves

keep the

comfort

and pack agony and

of despair
lose

When people

philosophy,

(tich)

hope ..

the fatigue

we know that

means taking

back to a valley

have lost

of adversity,

of unannoyed

its
it

Christ~

It

and follow

and physiologically;

called

all

until

going

people

of hope.

with

winds

on your body and on your

we are

despair;

-of Jesus

What is it?

cause,

take

chilly

is not a euphoria

untroubled

Jesus

amid the

up yet;

 tried

it

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in the North on a massive

and tell

them that

this

if

got three

or four buckets

fire

and it

out,

say that
that

water

didn't

can't

building

It doesn't

we haven't

tried

it

out,

out.

you wouldn't

You'd just

:B.verything that

we have set

story;

tell

them to wait until

give up yet.

I know that

bends toward Justice.
"We Shall

singing

shall
11

rise

is right.

don 1 t play

singing

You shall

reap
11

I know that

what you sow.

We Sha ll

rise

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the

I 1m

Overcome 11 because

one d~y the God of the universe

wit h me; I will

crushed

I'm not going to stop

up and break

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but it

the truth

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"We Shall

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(

I know that

again.

not goin g to stop sin r,ing
I know that

a success

the next morning;

Overcome 11 because

We Shall

It's

a non-

I 1 m not going to stop singing

Overcome" because

to earth

work;

in the North.

that.

I'm not going to stop

Overcome 11 because

won't

out to get through

movement, we have gotten

violent

scale

say

and intelligently

non-violence

on a massive

and you

to try to put the

put the fire

mean that

go back

caught afire,

of water

put the fire

yet;

you need more water more efficiently

applied.

Bible

scale

.,

will

be able

tr~e ta::ktone

 •
of your power.

I'm not going to stop

singing

"We Shall

Overcome 11 because mine eyes have seen the glory
coming of the Lord counting
grapes
truth

of wrath are stored.

Glory Hallelujah,

of you

struggle

who support

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the work of the SCLC in our

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where the

is marching on.

Thank you for listening
those

out the goodness

of the

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By letter
dated January 2, 1968; authority-was
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a telephone
surveillance
on the
national
h~adquarters
of the ~outh~rn Christ+an Leadership
Conference, 330 Aubur:r;iAvenue, N.Eo, Atla:r;ita, .. <;;eorgia,
because its President,
Martin Luther King, Jr.,, had
publicly
announced he would lead a massive civil dis<;>bedience in the nation's
·Capital in the Spring of 1968~ At
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adviser aJ;1d long-tiIBe secret
Com~unist Party cember, Stanley Levis0~, conce~ning the
events of the preceding day. King stated he was considering
calling
off the Washington rr.arch. Levison advised hi~ to
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Despite this violence
.King are continuing
their plans
disobedience
~o ~tart the latter
Washington, D. C.

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in Memphis, Levison and
for this massiye civil
part of April, 1968, in

In view of the internal
security
aspect involved,
authority
is requested
to install
telephone
surveillances
of the Southern Christian
Leadership -conf~rence at its
national
headquarters
at ~he above-liste~
a~d~~ss and also_
at its local headquarters,
1401 U Street,
N.-W., -Washington,
so that we _can keep apprised
of the strategy
and plans· of
this group.
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Attached for your approval is a memorandum to the
Attorney General requesting
a telephone
surveillance
of
the Southern Christtan
Leade:r;ship Conference
(SCLC) . headquarters
at Atlanta,
Georgia, and Washington,
D. C., in an
effort
to obtain intelligence
data concerning
massive civil
. disobedience
planned for the nation's
Capital
the end of
April,
1968, by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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On January 2, 1968, we requ~sted
the Attorney
General to authorize
the installation
of a telephone
surveillance
on the headquarters
of SCLC in Atlanta,
Georgia,
because of possible
riots which might ensue with King's
·
planned Washington march.
By letter
dated January 3, 1968
the Attorney General denied our request
advising, 11There has
not been an adequate demonstration
of a direct
threat
to the
national
security."
RECENTDEVELOPMENTS:

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On March 28, 1968, King led a ~arch in Xc~pnis,
.
Tennessee,
which resulted
in a riot.
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King conferred with his principal
adviser
and lon 6 -ti=e
secret Communist Party member, Stanley Levison,
conce-:nTng ·
this riot.
King was considering
calling
off the Washington
march and Levison advised him to continue with his plans.
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SOUTHERN
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100-438794

OBSERVATIONS:
.Since Levison,
a long-time
secret communist, is
counseling.King
to continue
the Washington march in .spite of
the Memphis riot,
it is felt we should again request
the
Attorney General to authorize
a telephone
surveillance
of
SCLC since it would appear that a threat
to the national
·security
now exists~
We have a total
of ~elephone
sur~eillances
in operation
of which ~ are in Bureau cases
and ...,19 are at the written
request
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I am declining authorization
of the requested
installation
of
the above telephone
surveillance
at the present
time.
There has
not been an adequate
demonstration
of a direct threat to the
national
security.
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evidence
be secured
of such a
threat,
or re-evaluation
desired,
please
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investigative
activities
should be undertaken
necessary
to the protection
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At 9:30 p. m., 6/24/69, Bill Bar.ton of the Associated
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that the above captioned women reporters,
who are with Knight Newspapers,
claim to have had an exclusive interview with the Director on Tuesday,
June 24, 1969. He stated that the only information about the contents of
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reporters that 11that racist columnist, Rowan" started the current
controversy regarding wiretapping, that Mr. Hoover allegedly stated
that Government agencies, "all over town" have been wiretapping, and
that they quote Mr. Hoover as stating that he did not wish to get into the
wiretapping of King but that former Attorney General Kennedy ordered ito
Barton wished to know if the alleged interview with 1'.Ir. Hoover was
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·rt is recommended attached
d~cument reg?rding
Martin Luther King, Jr. be furnished
President-elect
Nixon
and the Attorney General designate, after the inauguration,
in view of the agitation
by some ir.dividuals
and groups that
~ing's birthday be made a national' holiday.
The.Southern Christian
Leadership
Conference,
formed
by King, held demonstrations
on January 15, 1969, King's
birthday,
t~ urge that that date be made a national
holiday.
According to press accounts, Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy and
_other prominent Negroes met with President-elect
Nixon on
January 13, 1969, and Abernathy then urged Nixon to make King's
birthday a national
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to President
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view ·of the inaugural events scheduled bet,;-1een now and that
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concernin~
received
I

recall

Kine's

visit

from a reliable

tl,c

an aide

Luther

~;oLcl h:a.:;e

According

King,

rrl,:;e,

by running

prostitute

of stealing

tr.e police

besm:i.rching
that

into

prozt~tutes

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where t~ey

is a

prostitute

Rustin

one morning

accus~d

to e·.rade
the

however,
claimed

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in order

King., Jr.

and ttat

of

coming out of

claimed,

roo~.

Norway,

receipt

D. King at tempted

had na~ed girls
stayed

himself

the latter's

The police

of ;-;:artin Luther

entouraGe

(Rustin

a prostitute

The prostitute

6 the

Kine; to Nori:,ay

dOi·m by ti•1e police

room.

of A. D. King'~

tr,e reputation

into

we

when he was in Oslo,
with

had caught

~artin's

o:.it of arrestin

bf a hotel

corr~dors

to Rustin,

;-,as called

money.

members of KinG's

incident.

J'.lartin I s brother.

~as paid by the occupant
~al~:ed

1964, which info,

in connection

the police

the room of A. D. Kini,
the police

Jr.,

Rustin

at 4:30 a.m. because

I gave you earlier

to King 1·1hoaccompanied

of the following

homosexual).

with Martin

•

source.

two acqualntances

convlcted

information

to ~orway i~ ~ec.,

Bayard Rustin,
told

the followinr;

-

runninc

that
Ltat

she
~e

to avoid

Rustin

also

sa::..d

up and down t~e

they were brinJi~:

wt:te

rooms.

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ASSASSINATIONOJ!"'MART~NLUTHERKING, JRo
Bureau notified
lo
2.,

IL,

by Memphis, Tennessee

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King shot f1/4/68Jon
balcony of Lorraine
Motel, 406 Mulberry
Street,
Memphis, Tennessee shortly
'JU!tc.r: 6; 00 pm (Memphis
time)
Pronounced dead at 7:05 pm, 4/4/68
(Memphis ·time)

3o

Department of Justice
requested
FBI i:q.vestigation
possible
violation
of 18 U.,S.Co 2410

4a

Death attributed
neck vessels.

to bullet

damage to spinal

for

cord and

Crime Scene
Flophouse

A.,

'10

Assassin fired
located across

"'-2o Assassin
4/4/68
3.

\B.

Paid

shot from flophouse
street
from motel.

rented room 5B between
using name John Willard
for one week's

$8050

at 422½ S~ Main
3:00

pm and 3:30

pm

rent.

Bullet - .30 caliber
metal jacket,
soft point,
sporting
type bullet
of Remington (insufficient
markings to allow
positive
identification

C.

Rifle
1.

(Remington

game master

ga~e master
Conpany in

Purchaser
Lowm.eyer,
Alabama.

Date of purchase

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caliber).

where thrown
...,.

by white

Traced
through
to dealer
in Alahama.

Company, Birmingham,

white male giving
fictitious
and address,
1907 South 11th
- March 30,

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.30-06

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model 760.
Connecticut

Purchased
- Aero ~!arine
Alabama for S248.59

5.,

model 760 -

Found on sidewalk near flophouse
male who was running from scene
Rcrnin~~on
Remington

NW 55097

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197

1968

name Harvey
Street,
Birmingha,.11,

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"n.

Zipper

bag thrown

on ground

by assassin

-

near·the

,,"l(,nz

1.

flophouse

ft1,>

It contained
q_inoculars.
FBI traced pair of binoculars
to York Arms, 162 South Main Street,where
purchased
4/4/68 for $39095.
Purchase
paid for in $20.00 bills
Tee shirt
and shorts
- laundry marks -checked
to laundry in Los Angeles,
California.

and traced

3.

Pair of duckbill
pliers
- traced
by FBI to Hardware
Company in Los Angeles&
Employees state
item was sold
from "bargain
barrel"
but could not identify
purchaser.

4.

2 cans

of Schlitz

beer

bearing

Mississippi

tax

stamps

Hammer
Transistor

radio

Numerous toiletry
White mustang

car

1.

Mustang formerly
Alabama

2.

Paisley

3.,

Eric

advertised
S. Galt

articles
seen

leaving

car

for

purchased

sale

with

on 8/29/67.

$1,950

issued
7/20/31,

of crime

D. Paisley,

owned by William

Alabama drivers
license
him as white male, born
hair,
blue eyes, address
Alabama.
5.

scene

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Purchased

8/30/67

cash.

to Eric
5'11",

2608 Highland

Galt

describes
brov:n
Ave., Birmingham,
175 lbs.,

Mustang located
4/11/68
in Atlanta,
Georgia,
as result
of inquiry
by local
authorities
to F'BI National
Crir:1e
Infornation
Centero
a.

?,~ustang abandoned in area
housing project
in Atlanta

of low-income ·white

bo

Ectrccn
S::0 a~ a~d 9:ro 2r1, 4/5/GS by ~~ite
~~:c,
5' 11 11 , 165 lbs, neatly
dressed,
who walked away
after
locking
cnr.

c.

Speedometer
Speedometer

on car when purchased
20,000
on car when found in Atlanta,

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39tOOO miles

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serviced
serviced

in Hollywood, California
(no date available)
in Los Angeles, California,
2/13/68

eo

Mexican tourist
sticker
Mexico at Nuevo Laredo,

indicated
on 10/7/67

car

entered

Evidence

IIt.

Ao

Fingerprint
(latent)
on map found in items believed
left
by Galt in Atlanta rooming house is identical
with print
found on gun believed
to be murder weapono

B.

Fingerprint
(latent)
found on binoculars
with gun.

c.

Fibers found on bedspread recovered
with rifle
believed
to be the murder weapon and fibers
found on sheet recovered
from Galt's
automobile
indicate
that the two items have
been in physical
contacto
Subject James Earl
Harvey Lowmeyer

found on gun identical
with print
purchased
in Memphis and abandoned

aka Eric

Ray,

Starve

Galt,

John Willard,

Identified
with latent
fingerprints
on the rifle,
binoculars,
Schlitz
beer can, shaving lotion bottle,
and map recovered
from roominghouse in Atlantao
checked against
more than
/ \ Bo Latent prints
whom wanted notices
have been posted.

c.

53,000

persons

on

:B,ay is escapee
from a Missouri State prison,
4/23/67,
serving
~O. years for armed robbery
and operating
a motor vehicle

without

permission.On

Bo_rµ_.3/10/28,

entered

3/17/60.he

Al ton,

Missouri

State

prison.

Illinois

Obt,d.necl :1s:7,:,!10J or~tcnJ. h0lp fror.1 a cl in icnl ps:·-:-ho 1t:,:;i~~t
in Los Angeles, California
from 11/27/67
through 12/14/67.

E.,

1.

Ray gave his

2.

D,,ctor

true

dcscri:)ecl

name and date
P.ay a~ s!1y,

but not psychotic
3.

Ray furnished

4.

Ray paid

or plagued

little

cash for

introv0rted

with

information
all

of birth
r-.::.d \".'i th,:r:1.·::n

neuroses.
regarding

background

but one consultation.

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Arrest

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1.

Convicted

of burglary

in Los Angeles_ in 1949

2.

Armed Robbery in Chicago

3.

Forging and cashing
Missouri in 1955

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1952

s.

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Postal

Money orders

in

Prison record:
was incarcerated
in Los Angeles Coun~y
Jail - 1949
Illinois
State Prison - 1952-54
Federal Penitentiary,
Leavenworth,
Kansas, 1955-58
Received Missouri State Prison on 3/17/60
to serve
20 year sentence
for armed robbery and operating
a
motor vehicle without permission
of the owner
Missing from prison 4/23/67
G.

Bartender's
school attended
in Los Angeles from 1/19/68
to
3/2/68,
under name of Mr. Willard,
751 Figueroa Street,
LAo
After graduation
he declined
to take job offered
by school.

Ho

Locksmith correspondence
course,
from 1500 Cardinal
Drive,
Little
Falls,
New Jerseyo
Enrolled
as Eric So Galt submitting
address of 2589 Rue Notre Dame, EST, Montreal,
Canadao Submitted second address
(no ~ate) of 1535 N.
Serrano, Los Angeles, California.
Submitted third
change
of address on 3/30/68
as 113 14th Sto, N~ E., Atlanta,
Ga.

Io Characteristics

V.

lo

"Loner"

2o

Likes. to dance
Los Angeles

3o

Drinl,;.s moderately

•'1&

Avid reader

Foreign

operates

of

and travels
took

1

'girlie

dancing

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alone
lessons

in Birmingham

r.1agazines

Travel

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VI.

Known residences
Birmingham,

California

Georgia

VII. Prison

to 10/7/67

- 12/15/67

- 3/24/68

Memphis, Tennessee
Traveled
returned

in the U. So

and travel

Alabama - 9/12/67

Los Angeles,
Atlanta,

-

to 3/17/68

to 3/31/68

- 4/3/68

to 4/4/68

from Los Angeles to New Orleans,
Louisiana
to Los Angeles from 12/15/67
to 12/21/67.

and

associates

Ao Raymond Louis

lo Curtis

Curtis

served

- serving
time with

life

sentence

Ray on three

for murder

different

occasions
2. Says R.ay told
payroll

him he engaged

jobs

while

in burglaries

operating

and

out of Quincy,

Illinois
3. Ray claimed
Detroit,

\

(

told

Curtis

-

Martin

in Chicago,

Tampa and Tijuana

4. Ray allegedly

--.

to have hoodlum contacts

Lo King was alive

a dozen

times that if
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when he got out of

'-~ ··

prison

he would like

$1,000,000

to collect

a bounty

of

on King

B. James To Bond
1.

he 1:nc•,-; r.~y in ?~iss~1uri

States

2o Claimed

Ray was dealer

3. Said Ray was avid reader

State

Pri~:on

in amphetaMine.
of sex books

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 UNITED

STATES DEPAR.TME;.'{T

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FE

OF JUSTICE

L . Il U ~_EAU OF. INV ES; I GA TI WASHINGTON,

In Reply, Please Refer to
File No.

J;),C.

20535

FOR IMivIEDIATE RELEASE
.APRIL 19, 1968

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Attorney General Ramsey Clark announced today that the
.r

FBI has identnied Janie~ 1?arl Ray, an e~capee from the Missouri
State Penitentiai·y, as Er~c Starve Galt, ag~st

who1n a Federal

complaint was filed last Wednesday in connection with the fatal .shooting of the Reverend Dr o Martjn Luthe,r King, Jr

o

Director J. Edgar Hoover said that a system~tic ~nd
exhaustive sear·ch of latent fingerprints
case against the fingerprints
t

uncovered in the Dr. King

of the over 53,000 persons for ·whom

uwantedNotices11 have been posted in the file§ of the FBI' a Icientifics.tion
. Di\7?-sionled to the determination that Galt and Ray are identical.

Mro Hoover said that Ray, who is 40 y_ears of age, was
reported missing from the Missouri State Penitentiary

at Jefferson

City, Missouri, on April: 23, 1967. He had been received at that

institution on ?,:arch 17, 19C0, to s2r\·e a 20-year sente:.:ce fc-::0-,\•i.::;
conviction in St. Louis for arnied robbery a..11.d
for operating a motor

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In Septembe~, 1966, whiJ,e serving this sentence., he was

confined for a time in the maximum security ward at the State Hospital
at Fulton, Missourio

According to Mr o Hoover, Ray has a known arrest record
... .

·dating back to 19490. Prior to the 1960 conviction for which he received
the 20-year term, Ray had been convicted of burglary in Los Angeles,
California,

in' 1949; armed robbery in Chicago,

Illinois,· in 1952; and

forging a:n<l-c-a-shlngUnited States Postal Money O~ders in Missouri
in 1955.
He has served terms in the Los Angeles County Jail in

1949; in State Prisons at Joliet and Pontiac,

Illinois,

in 1952-54; and

in the Federal Penitentiary

Kansas,

in 1955-58.

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at Leavenworth,

Ray was an enlisted man in the United States Army from
February,

1946, to Dece~ber,

1948, at which time he was given a

General Discharge due to ineptness and lack of adaptability
service.

While in the Army, he received a three-month.

for -~ilitary--

-senten~e

at

hard labor for being drtmk and brea.~:ing arresto

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Mr. Hoover said that durfog his crim.i_-rial career,

Ray

has also used the na..rnes of Jarnes ?-..i:cBride, James \Valwn, \\~. C.

Herron and James 0 1Conner.

He is a ,vhite male; claims to have

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· b;en born 11arch -~-0~1928_.,in lliinois; is appro.xim~tely 5 ~eet 10 inches · ·

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is a small

-·hairo There

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was filed ill Jefferson City., Missouri

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Backgro~nd:
Martin Luti1er Kii"!g9 .Jr.? is u well-kn~~:n
southern Negro leader who is Pres io.znt of t!,e S,;:H.:!tl-d~:T;:1
Christi~n ~eeoership Conference (SCLC) and is Co~sstcr
with i'lis fatl:e:..- of ·die i:benezer Baptist
Churcht .Atlan~a 9
Georgiao ~e ~os born i~ Atlenta on January 15 19290 ii~g
became natio~ally
prominent 6uri~g 1955 &~d 1956 wten ~e
organized a ?rotest that ended bus s~gregation !~ Montgomery 9
Alabamao As 2 ~esult of his activities
-in recial matters,
he has been arres~ed on cumerous occasions by :ocal offic~a:s
and cha:cg-zd wi:th miscemean~,:rs. 'I'~-.roughout tis eii'o:c~s L1 tne
:racial field i1e h&s stressed
nonviolent actiono
9

.Subversive

Con!lections end Associations:
11

The Wo:rker,.: an east coast communist n.ewsp&pc:r9
issue of N0veraber 6 9 1960~ c&rried an article
e~titled
"Sobel: ?a:rley Ca~ledo 11 A.:::cordir .g to this &rticle
widespread ap~2als on behalf af freedom for Morton Sobell were
.sche~uled a~a ~ould be climaxed at a national g3theriLg in
WashingtG~~ D. C.s from November 19? 1960, through
·
Nove~~er 21s 19600 Among :tose who sponsored ~he nat~onal
gathering was Martin LUther KiLlg, Jr.
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11

The Worker 11 issue of Noverr:;:;er27, 1960, .:::arr1e~
11
an article
entitled
1200 Clerics urge Ike Pree Sooell."
The article
listed King as one of those s~onso~i~g a~
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The January 16P 1961, issue of the "National ·
11
Guardian" carried an article
entitled
Aholish The
Un-Americans. 11 This article
indi.catecl a petition
was
directed to the 87th Congress asking for lhc abolishment
of the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Among
the signers of this petition was tl1e name of Reverend
Martin Luther King 1 Jro

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The 11Atlanta Journal, 11 a daily newspaper in
Atlanta, Georgia 1 on February 23f 1961, carried an article
11
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entitled
Highlanders and Dro King Join Forceso
This
article
stated that the Atlanta SCLC, headed by Martin Luther
King, Jr., and the 11Tennessee Controversial
Highlanders Folk
S~hool" had joined forces to train Negro leaders for the
south~rn civil rights struggle.
This article
indicated
that a Tennessee State Court revoked the school's-charter
after a legislative
investigation
charged that communists
had lectured there~
The 11New York Post, 11 a New York daily newspaper,
in the issue of May 2, 1961, carried an article
which
indicated the name of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.,
of Atlanta, Georgia, was listed on a petition
requesting
President John Fo Kennedy to invoke executive clemency for
Carl Braden and Frank Wilkinson.
Mrs. Alberta Ahearn~ a self-admitted
member of
the Communist Party 9 Louisville 9 Kentucky, in testifying
on December 11 and 13, 1954, in Jefferson County, Kentucky,
Criminal Court, in a State Sedition prosecution
against
Carl Braden identified
nraden as having been known to
her as a memher of the Communist Party from 1951 until
the time of her testimony.
The "Courier-Journal,"
Louis¥ille,
Kentucky 9 a daily newspaper,
on February 3, 1959:. carried
an article
indicating
that Carl Braden had been sentenced to
one year in· prison on a charge of contempt of Congress for
his refusal to answer questions before the House Committee
on Un-American Activities.
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The New York Times·," a daily newspaper, in the
issue of January 24, 1959, carried an article
to the effect
that Frank Wilkinson was sentenced by the United States
District
Court, Atlanta 9 Georgia, to a year in jail for
contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions before
the House Committee on Un-American Activitieso
The August 25 9 1961, issue of 11New America," an
official
publication
of the Socialist
Party - Social
Democratic Federation 9 carried an article
entitled,
"Prominent Americans Seek Pardon Junius Scales."
He was
sentenced to six years in prison under the Smith Act.
Among those who joined this effort and who signed the
petition urging suspension or reduction of Scales sentence
was Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
9

On September 7 9 1961, a testimonial
dinner was
held in honor of Henry Winston in the Skyline Ballroom of
the Hotel Theresa 9 125th Street, 7th Avenue, New York,
New Yorko One of the speakers at this testimonial
was
Martin Luther King Jr. At the time of the testimonial
Henry Winston was publicly known as a member of the
Communist Party, USA, National Committee and Vice-Chairman
.of the Communist Party, USA.
9

The November9 1963 9 issue of 11Through to Victory"
published in Ridgecrest,
California,
cafried an article
by
Carl Prussian entitled
"Communist Planned Tactics of King
N.A.A.C.P."
In this article Prussian made the statement
that Martin Luther King 9 Jro, and the N.A.A.C.P. were being
influenced by communist generated revolutionary
tactics.
Prus~ion idcntificu
hir.i~clf as a f()r~cr counter~r.Y f, 1 r the
FRI from 1947 to 1960. He ~ade the state~ent
that
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., was always set forth at
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to

wh II m c 11'!J": u n i s ts

look anJ ru11Y arnund in the cor:1'l;unist stru1:glc
on the rnany racial issues.
In a sworn affidavit
Prussian
made the statement "I hereby also state that ~artin Luther
Kingp Jr., has either been a member of or wittingly
has
accepted support from communist fronts,
individuals,
and/or
organizations
which gave aid to or espouse communist causes,
numbering over 60."
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The March, 1963, issue of the "Southern Patriot,"
the official
publication
of the Southern Conference
Educational Fund, which is the successor of the Southern
Conference for Human Welfare 1 a1_1organization
cited by the
House Committee on Un-American Activith!S
us a Com111unist
Party front group, has several pictures of Martin Luther
King, Jr., at an affair described as an annual reception
for New York friends of the Southern Conference Educational
Fund. The main speaker for this affair was Martin Luther
King, Jr.

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published in New York,
New York, on April 5, 1964, carried a column entitled
"Washington Pipeline" by John Henshaw. This column
contained a paragraph as follows:
"Martin Luther King, Jr.,
isn't happy about the detailed report that FI3I Dir,ector
J. Edgar Hoover has compiled about some of his past
associations
with communistso In order to limit the FBI's
future role in civil rights investigations
King has
launched a backstage campaign to get President
Johnson
to transfer
the authority
to U.S. Treasury Department
Law Enforcement Agenc:i.ES
and to es pee ia l ly establ:isled Corps
of Uo s. Marshals. II
The "Atlanta Constitution,"
an Atlanta,
Georgia,
daily newspaper, on July 25, 1963, carried an article
entitled
nonetime Communist Organizer H~ads Revo King's
Office in N.Y. 11 This article
indicated
that Jack H. O'Dell
was Director of the New York office of the SCLCo This
article
identified
O'Dell as being in the Communist Party
as late as 1958. It was indicated that O'Dell was also
known as Hunter
Pitts O'Dell at one time and that he had
been identified
as a mcmher of the National Co~~ittee of
the Communist Party, USA.
The 11Washington Post and Times Hern1d,r, a
Washingtont D. C., daily newspaper, on April 15, 1964,
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Mattcr of Fact," by ,Joseph Alsop.
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This article
stated 7 The subject of real head shakinJ~ is the
Rev. Martin Luther King.
His infl ucnce is v<:>1-ygreat~
II is
original
dedication
to nonviolence can lwntty be dnuhtetJ ...
Yet, he has accepted and is almost certainly
still
accepting
communist collaboration
and even communist advicea
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In 1962-63 the issue of the communist role in the
King organization
was raised because of Hunter Pitts O'Dell
commonly called Jack O'Dell.
This man1 a known communist,
held posts in the Southern Christian
Leadership Council 9
first
in the South and then in the New York office 9 until
the late Spring of 1963. King finally
dropped him when
he was warned by United States Government officials
that
O'Dell was the genuine communist article.
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0fficial
warnings have been given to King about
another 9 even more important associate
who is known to be
a key figure in the Covert apparatus of the Communist Partyo
After the warning King broke off his open connections
with
this man, but a secondhand connection nonetheless
continues."
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The "Jackson Daily News" printed
in Jackson,
Mississippi,
on May 18, 1964, carried an article
entitled
"Charges King Accepted Money From Group Labeled Subversiveo 11
This article
indicated
that in a speech·to
the North
Jackson Exchange Club, Erle Johnston 7 Jro 9 Director
of the
State Sovereignty Commission said Dr. Martin Luther King 1 Jr.,
had accepted money from an organization
labeled as subversive
11
in spite of his claims that his SCLC inYestigates
any leaders
charged with cn~~unistic
associations.
Jnhnstnn showed
members of this cluh a photostatic
copy of a check made
o~t to King by the Southern Conference Educational
fund,
Incorporated,
of ~cw Orleans.
He pointed out in his
speech that this ~as the success or organization
to the
Southern Conference for Human Kelfare 9 which had been branded
as subversive by both the House Cor.i':littee on Fn-American
Activities
and Senate Internal
Security Committee.
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of Martin Luther King,
who was publicly identified
as one of the leaders of the
"March on Washington, 11 was Bayard Rustino
According to an article
in the August 30, 1963P
Washington, D. C., "Evening Star 9 " a Washington, D. C., daily
newspaper, captioned 11Rustin Rights Actionist,
Press On9 11
Bayard Rustin joined the Young Communist League (YCL) in
1936 while attending the College of the City of New Yorko
This article
continued that he quit the YCL after four
years and he later 11served 28 months in prison for being a
conscientious
objectoro 11
The "New York Herald Tribune, 11 a New York daily
newspaper, for August 14 9 1963, is an article
entitled
11
Thurmond Assails a Leader of March, 11 reports that ·in
addition to Rustin's
past communist activities
he was
11
• convicted
in 1953 for sex perversion. 11 Rustin reportedly
11
declined to comment on the morals charge which was
lodged against him in California
and which involved two
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section

This very synopsized
account is a representative
of a large amount of material
on the same subject

cross
mattero

It is to be noted that this account relates
only to a
factual
description
of certain
day-to-day
aspects of Resurrection
City
It daliberately
excludes any comments on economic·, religious,
political,
educational,
and sociological
factors
and interestsG
Furthers no conclusions
have been drawn or interpretations
madeo
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Louis Cassels

June 10, 1968, Senior Editor and Religious'Editor
of the United Press International
wrote:

A month after

it began,
the Poor People's
Campaign is flounderingQ
It is beset by leadership
problens,
racial
friction,
confused objectives
and
11
low moraleoooo
11

The Caravans

The Poor People's
Campaign began with several caravans
throughout
the United States forming to travel
to Washington,
Do Ca
In Boston 1 1'1assachusetts,
a man pic1r...eting the caravan was stabbed
while it was formingo
In Dayton, Ohio, follo·wing reports
of
missing purses
and money, m2mbers of the l·:iciwestern Caravan were
Fore sent beck to ChicF~o bcccuse of tt~se i~ci~cntso
In L'etroit.
L.ichigan,
local
l~ecroes brought food to the can::.van
there but rc•~\t!:"ed to f ivc the fo:>d to cr,ravcn particij_n.nts
tLey
contin:cnt

of a C£rt>V9n
of narcotics
and Lester

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of the caravancalled
the "1-fule Train" ·was arrested
in New Jersey
in P.pril, 1968 t with drugs and a stolen gun in his caro
Several
members of the southern caravan were seen with pistols
in their
possession 11 In connection with the Mid.west Caravan, large
quantities
of food 9 clothing,
and blankets
were found abandoned
on buses used by the caravano
Campaign officials
·were not
interested
in having this material
returned
as they said it was
all donated and they could get more on the wayo
\!io;t.ence

On May 20, at Resurrection
City, a news cameraman was
threatened
for failing
to enter a tent as instructed.;
A marshal,
one of the city's
own security
force, told the newsman~ "If you
dontt get in that tentp !fll
cut you with my razor 11t 1 Later,
Jesse Jackson, a campaign official,
said the marshal was only
kidding and didn~t know the incident
was being recordedo
The next day a resident

of Resurrection
City was arrested
a pistol
loaded with 11dur.:-ciurr."
bulletso
Luring a rock-and-roll
music entertain~ent,
six fights
erupted 0 A marshal requested
police assistc.nce
in removing
armed men from Resurrection
City in another incident,
but a Reverend
Young, a campaign official,
said the marshals would handle this and
denied entry to the city to the police 0
for

practicing

a "quick

draw1t

,;,;,ith

There have been fights during meals which caused officials
to call a town meeting to discuss
the fithts
and the marshals hsd
to disarm a man terrorizing
other residents
with a m~at cleavero
The "Commandos/' a group under the leadership
of Father James
Groppip have clubs, six or seven butcher knives,
and two gunso
RosiCG:nts of !'.czurrccticn
City lrn.\"'C thrm;n
roc;:s &t
passing
automobiles,
damaging four cars and injurinl?
one wc,:::·.r-n0
T1:o r r:i;::-.>:-·~c t" r c.::,o rt -2r$ r .::re L .:.::.
t<:.n by te e n-.: ;e re.'.. .1.-...:nts o {' t:1e
been returnedo
Senator

It was valued at over $5OOa A drunk lun f_ed at
of l~aine during the Senator's
visit
to the

L0'>-mrd Luskie

citya
On June 9 8 a. Negro man stole a camera during the afternoon
and raI1 into P.cnurrection
City
Harshals
refused to allow police
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into the city and no arrest was madeo Members of a youth gang
from Chicago at the city have been stealing
goods there and ~elling
the items they steal
At least four firebombs have been made at
Resurrection
City for use against factions
of residents
of the cityo
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Resurrection
City participants
have repeatedly
expressed
objections
to leaders of the Southern Christian
Leadership
Conference, which organized the Poor People's
Campaign, staying
~t th~ Pitts
1:0-tor J',:)tc:l in i:ochin;:ton,
Do Cg, instcc::d of at
Resurrection
City 0 Participants
are also upset over heavy drinking
and the presence of ·white and black females in the rooms of
campaign leaders
Reverend Ralph Do Abernathy had obscenities
shouted at him when he visited
the tent city on June 7 beceuse of
the fact that he was residing
at the Pitts
Motor Hotel rather th£1n
in Resurrection
City with his followers
and because of rumors
circulated
to the effect
that Resurrection
City residents
had
caught him in bed with a white female 0
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Racj_al Friction
been friction
between the Mexican-r"..Inerican
contingent
of the Poor Peoplefs Campaign and campaign Negro leaders
The Mexican-American contingent
has charged
racial
discrimination
On June 7, Reverend Abernathy
told Reies Lopez Tijerina,
lender
of the Mexican-Americans,
to either
move into Resurrection
City,
which the l:1exican-Americans have so far. refused to do, or leave
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While a Negro newspe.per rep®rter
~,usurree: t ic.;.1 l-i ty,
n : :(;; ro r .:.~L..:-:.
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p~ges with ,·:ri ting
t i.:.
c '~-~C:.o
Washington,

itnelfo

was getting

c... i:h i 1:a t' -..:1.;ort e r r:.~::rby i·~us to lu to le : . .:: 'by
Tb ::: ~:!..i t2 rc.:.~-ortcr'
s note:)ook \•; c:s t d:c !l, t ::2
on them torn out J and the notebook
thrm ·m in

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Violence has not been confined to Resurrection
City
. Three cwpaign
participants
(two coming with a caravcin)
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two Uo So Marine officers
and ,;,;roundingtwo other personso· These three were to move into
Resurrection
City the night of the murdero
lfembers of another teen-age gang called the "Invadersn
who are with the campaign from 11.emphis, Tennessee~ invaded the
Ballou High School in Washington and roamed the halls setting
off firecrackers
and turning in two false fire alarmso
A
campaign part:i.cipant was arrested
for refusing to pay for drinks
in a Washington restaurant
and pulling a knife on the waitress 0
During a demonstration
at the Supreme Court Building,
si;:"{ceJDpaigners threw rocks and broke five windowso Three
campaigners were arrested
for lowering the flag to half mast and
five others ·were later arrested
for obscene languageo
At the Department of Justicet
campaigners met with
General r.amsey Clark and one said, "we e.in' t got no
money, man, but we got matches,
mano Y.;ro Ramsey Clark,
you
better tell the police to get their guns readyo For every one of
us you kill in Resurrection
City, ten cities
are going to burno 11
J\ttorney

This was after

lmdrew Young reportedly

said

over the

public
address
system in Resurrection
City,.
·wecannot survive
in America unless we put an end to the present government system
that will inevitably
lead to our destruction
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City

In May, 1968 1 a Negro female was raped in Resurrection
On June 1 two carloads of white females ca.,.-rne
to the city

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2 r.o:::.o to ll,_·::,i..:..:.::tcl.'..:i:'
tl~t!ir ~ ...rvic12so II he 6 ro fer::ales
in the city
nre: di:-.tu::~::.(.: .:.:t ~:cwro r..:.:lcs [0r .slcc.)i.ng with l~ezro :'.:'o:::r::-alcs
durin3
the day and then going to hotels
·with white females at nighto
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A female marshal was raped at Resurrection
City by three
or four rr.en and two days later two Negro female visitors
were
raped thcre
The boyfriend of one victim ·went to the city to
confront the rapists
and was met by campaign official
Hosea Williams
and marshals 0 The boyfriend ·was told to leave or he would be beateno
9

A white female, approximately
22 years old, caree to the
fence at the city at night and said she wanted to do ·w·hatever she
could to support the campaignQ One Negro male suggested she enter
the camp and engage in sexual relations
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Situatiqq

Between 800 and 900 participants
remain at Resurrection
City, which ·was built to hold 3,000 peopleo
The permit to
occupy the park originally
scheduled
to expire June 16, 1968, has
been extended to June 23, 1968
Most of the legitimate
poor
peo,::>J.ehave left and in the main only "black nationalists"
remaino
Reve'i:'end Abernathy sald on June 10 that evicting
residents
of
Resurrection
City ·when the permit expires would "infuriate
those
·who would like to resort
to violenceli
and would "only disturb
those in cities
around the country to the point where violence
would break outo u
0

The Poor People~s Campaign has scheduled a mass
demonstration,
called "Solidarity
Day" for June 19
This demonstration
is to include sympathizers
from all over the country
besides residents
of Resurrection
City 0
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still
refuses to move
into I:1:...:::urr1:..c
ticn City &n<...the: city
is still
,,or king on its
housini;; e..nd sanitcry
fc:cilitieso
/.._l'~erro f)lU!;!ber who volunteered
to l:.y ~Ji.:,~ t~:..;r(! ,:cs qui t.e c:ri tical
over the refusc1l of residents
of tL: Ci-:::,, t:) r. S .:-i..st }·.:.;.: in Li!:; 1-r01:!~a

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spent the night of June 16, 1968, at
the Uilliard
Hotel, Wat:hington,. Do Co si in a. ro·om occupied· by a

white £err.ale, age 20-22, who claimed to be a secretary
Southern Christian Leadership Conferenceo

of the

·who had resided
at Resurrection
City
advised that one of the Poor People's Campaign marshals h~d
pointed
to Lincoln's
statue
in the Lincoln t-iemorial and said
to her, "See that bastard?
He're going to paint his skin black
and make him look like a niggero"
This indivictua.l also made
e.n obscene reference
to the ~--<'.:..:::hington
1-:onurr:ento This fe11:ale
stated
that !';everal atte~:)ts
,·:ere made by Ner,-roes to have interc0u:c ...~ }.l 1...i L1...r uo·1..h volur1t:sl·ily
ana. :rorceably o
.

A white

female

Another individual
described the leadershi?
of the
Poor ?eo?lees Care?ai£n as chaotic and described
the campaign
as 113odom and Gomorrah all over againou
f..n individual
reported
that a gang of youne Uer;ro
youths from Chicago c,alled the Rangers,"was stealing
goods at
Res-1.1rrectio11 City m.1d selling
the i tcms.c This gang prefers
white wor;ten and uses its authority
to procure themo

Over~60,000 have been spent by the Poor People's
Cerepaign staff residing
at the Pitts Hotor Hotel, Washington,
Dt' Co; $7,000 reportedly·were
paid to Hosea Williams to cover
cash and property stolen from him at Resurrection
City
Carn,.,aign officials
ulso have reportedly
been cheating
on travel
voucherso
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at

the Ho1-;ard Johnson

and his

Y.otor Hotel

family

have been living

in Wa.shingtons

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llliL o:ui iJcc:.me n iootuaii i.t.:,r. there. After visorii," "nitles,"
nncl "nssistanls"
or

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1:0:i. G. ELLIOTT
HAGAN
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RECORD-E:"':-emio11s of

tho chll<!rcn were r,rown, Mr. nnd Mr&. Cohen

)IU,\'Nl ba,·k to A 111:u5 ln, :mt! Jinnlly lmd; lo
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llfr. Cohru <llr<I :Hl y..ari, :ir,o, 11nt1:,Iner. LlmL
time ,ml.ll Ju::L n few 111011Lh:;ar:o. :-.rm.Cohen

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DJ:umc J.:cvcl, SLol:cl<:y Can,:l<:h:,c:I, P:,111
l3ooLh, John . IIulcLL, James Pu:-man, Hap
Brown, Jerry Rubin, Fred ShuLilesworLh,
and Michnel Wood arc no longer denied.
King's close association with knov:n sex
perverts
Bayard
Rustin
nnd Ralph
Abernathy
is not even denied by his
frantic defenders.
'.rhese 'facts a:-e now t,(',o v:e:11kno,\·n
h,Ll~:1·-(lay

h,,.i 11,·c,1 alone, driven her own car, coolted
hcr meals nn<l kept house. "I'm 11ot sick or
,
nnythlni; now, I Just c:m't wan:," she snld.
...::.::,,:?,.,:n;1pc:lred In tile \Vnyncsboro, Sht- !ell nnd broke her leg recently.
c;;,.. :~('\\,-;,.,pct·. the '1111c Citiz,m. on
l\Ir:i. Collen rcmembern Waynesboro when
tho downtown arcn con:;lstecl of one blocl: o!
J;:::,• : 1 :-,·,:.n-dinfr n Jndy who cc!cbr:tlcd
stores,
the streets :mcl sidewalks were un?:,·:-i~:~:hb1:·,li.fay, ::.\frs. Mnry S:w ::rnnnll p1wccl nnd
"cYery Cl'Ocerystore so!d llquw."
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"Youni:; ctrls wgrc 1101}n1Jowgd ~o ~9 ~
,\; .. h'lii:li iih'i"l' i§ 110 GOUlJI,that 1111\'u wWil 611 !fatth'dnY iiight," she snl<l.i.fost (J[ to -theAin~"ifoa~i
The t~-uth·-~dr-·
·
h - ··,•.,eted one's 9!lt.h ~-car would be rea- the stores were Just shanties, she snld, ,~ith not go i,.way.
e::t,;:,:h t-:>be the subject of much
the exception of those owned by tile Pulchers
Instead, following the adage that the
:!:V!~i.!ht-:n~'°"!
p::·oS't.',
in :nr c~se I feel cs- :ind the Grays.
. · .
.
· best defense is a good offense, the ie:ft
Pl'd:,::r fo:-!-,mine to 11::wca grnnd lady
In answer to the lnevltnb,e que st ion asked has Jaw1ched a vit1iolic attack on t:-,c-- the \'cry olcl, Mrs. Cohen said, in her honest,
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'-1:· t;!:s c-~::bt!rr~siding in the First n:sstraightforward way, •'I don't know wh~•-f..::BLll;.general and on ~~';L.,t~ver
t:-k;. o~ G'->orgin. :Mrs. Cohen's senior I've
lived i;o Ion:;: my fam.!ly members usu- m para1cular .. , .• .
•
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,·,-.1:-s St'l:':n to enhm1ce her charms, her ally don't, but I did h:i.·,·ean aunt who llvuct -: _]ih::.B9.:.u:e:.:.:s
monum~n tru r~co:-a c,f a .
k\."''-•::
!::ter,.-~~ in t!~~ngsh11pj>cning around until she was 90."
lilcoime of devoted service to h1s country
lh'r, a:~d her de!ig-ht in. reflecting bnck
She secs well and reads e~erything she can i needs no defense. HistorJ will reca!i him
o,·.:-:·he!· yc.:>.rsfrom ci1i1dho.:>c.to adult- r:et her hands on lr.ch1dinr: the At!=:,nt:i.and as one of the gre:?.t Ame:.:ic,ans of all t:mc:.
l.v~cir~::Crc·1:1en1:.~rin~
the vsst ch511g-cs Augustn dally newspapers and Tile True . His meticulous care in the protection o::
in he:· hometowns of Way·nesboro and Citl.7~n
th
·
f th . di 1'd 1 •.•
Mrs. · Cohen's mother, Sophie Settngast,
e r:nva.cy o_
e :n 'Y ua _wru.e co:1~
~\\:$.'!!$=~c:m1c from Germany and. took her children ductl::g ,he _mvest1gal).o:1s vital to ~n~~
I .am indeed proud t-o be able to call there
when "Vannah" was nine for a. ten security of tne community
has chi>.r.ec:
~r:·;:. C0!1e:1 n nc::;hbo:· and constituent,
months visit. "Mnmn wanted ·us to learn to a course which is an im·.a.Iuable addition
a::d I ccrt~1inh· hooe t.hat she will enjoy speak Gcm.,.~n. but we used to kll her, 'No- to our way oi life.
lier 99th year in th·e s.1:ne spirit and with ' body tr.lks like that'."
Americans, armed v,ith the facts, .h~·;e
t-he sa:::e zest for li,·ing as she has ex:Mary s.wannah Barrett Cohc:_nhas a ~o:1d no trouble c.eciding the qucs:lon of creihibit.e.:i. in ~..!l the wonderful years past. mcmory or Augusta ~Yhlch sne ese:pc.a.!y ibility between this man and his delikes to tell about: Snc remcmbc:rs riding
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T;:c a:-,.:cle ro:1ows:
horsebac,: to a drug store on Broad Street, trnc°?rs . . Tne latcs .. co, o,e.
JOlI~ ,ne
Hi:?. ~::..:o!m:S Si'A::-;' J.. CEl\"TURY
1n the now-trnmc- ' ammed metropolis.
yappmg is C.a.rl T. Ro·.,·an, wnose co ,umn
(By Jo;-ce OciO:ll)
J
_\ published
in the \Va.shinzton St.a::- ycs1f;\!"f S.'i.\"~nn~,11
Barrett Cohen v.·as 99 ye~\rs
. tcrday, I insert it at this point in my
-0~~ !a.st. y.:~~k.
.
remarks:
T".r.:,~ In l!.sc:~ Is a remarkable thl::~. bt:'i M ,\RTIN
LUTHER
KING-THE
IT Js '.!'l.~~.f2~-~-.E......,....._~&.lio<,;:~.:r
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~-!:s.C-oh.:':1r<!::ds;.!lree newspapers every clar.1
TRUTH
LONGER
BE
,_.,.,...._
(By Carl T. Row, ,n)
c~~nr ..~:-:-:..:-n'l~c:-::le a;;es or her grcnt-cr:ind-5
.... CAN NO
c!'·.!lc!:t:-1!'lUd '\\•:itc:; lct!-e:s lu a graceful, :low-!
l-IIDDEN
'A soc!ety ls ne\'er In more ~:ii ;.he:i. •.;•;~e:n
11:r:h:.:1cl.
\
t.1lepc-op!elose the ab!l!t;• t-0 ldC:1:tlfya ,;e::.uB:-!;ht b!ce c:;-cs sp:i.rk!c wbc:11 she t.,n::s,
ino threat to personal Jibe:-=;-.
HON.JOHNR. RARICK
~! 1. l!.\t°::\:-~ . Ml". $1)(':lkc1·. I \\"illlt to
•1 :1 t,) :!: .• :\:t,•a!ion of my collen[rncs nu

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a ·.;:l;.ccl"h~li- now at .Keys-!

OF LOUISIANA

v1::eX::rs!::,; :Hcn:e, nnd fc,r the first ti!11e111i
!:.:-:..lift! !,; :. b!t leJs ~han comp!ct~ly indc-

IN THE HOC'SE OF REPRESE~TATIVES

· l'r!ondayi June 16, 1969

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S~c \\";-L; b:.:-!! In August:, June 2, 1870, a.nd

This soc!cty ls in a lot o~ ?(::11 11 •;.:c mr"j.
Jae;: cf
it--to cou:-"~oom ad.r...1!ssions o: a \"1:'ict· .-- o:
illegal FBI ~·lrctnps and b~1g:gi.ngs o! hc~1-~s

judge from the publlc rc-ac';!on-¢r

· and hotel rocms.
A Justice c!cpc.:-tmc:nt otr:c!:i.1ac;::1c,-.,,·:c:;zed
:::'".:~: 1°:?:- c::.:-ly :,·c:l:-s 1n ,s:,'"e.yncsboro
Jn :1i
Mr . RARICK. Mr. Speaker, for the in Fcc:er::I Dlst::-!ct C;,urt th:'.~ Dr. },:a;:.11
hot:~;, ·whc;;, n scrn:c stt1~!011 ls 1,ow on the
fourth time in 14 days I rise to call on Luther Km.?, was u~~-er elec.~o:n!.~ su:\·c,::
~.c,-.\·~'s:1!:-d1~s!:reet. Llbc:-~•:.
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to
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bl' • · lance 111 l9o•~ and luo:i, r.nd t .• e rBI :.i;cr..,
S~¢ :-e:-:'le::nb~:st!l~t dufing he:- chlldhOvd
e a ~m~ ri:;1on
m_a,:e P~l .re ?n- who supervlscd thls sur-.-e!llc.:::.cetcld tl".e:
l::{':-::~t?'lc:-.
J!:n E:i:-:-c-tt,a~d ~n t:r.clc bOUtibt formatlon
1;1 ns possession con~emmg
comt "It was my underst:'.:1c!!ni; that It went
"a:i o:o. l;;c,;:.:-:1c:own p.,~er ::1111In Ba th,
the llle;ral, 1mmoral, and sttb\·ers1ve ac- on ::rter thr,~."
S.C., 't!'l:l!.yv'..i h~d t-0 [;Ct to uphl!l t.~ro\:g!1 tivities of the late ::-.r:n-tin Luther King.
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of it h~s a!:er..c:ybeen destroyed. v.·a..spc-:-sv!-:.:
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well-tnown
-;:here :l:t :; planted 1:1dl,::o.She rc:r.cmbcrs tinued
:.:i c,·e::-:cl~ ~:.:r.cd Hcc!,::~swho h::d n peg lcnc!ers of the Communist
conspiracy,
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both here and abroad.
T!:~ :·::::~!:yr:-.c·,•~Jto .'..::gus~:i ,:1:cn ..Vt!'!lThe Amcric,m Pco;lle h:>.vc karned, a
:::,h;" :.!, :..:~c-;:.:s :\:·..:.:ys c:,~h:c!.W~!; seven. nnd little at a tir::c, of his close assccintion
li·:cd !n :. H:,\:~c en C:'l:-:
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thl!i co\u 4t.ry t~,r clo!.cr to n pol!cc st:~tc U, :.n
kc:r, J,::h•ab,::ih Ga? ·lc·y P!:,-nn. Gus 1!:\11, mo:;t A111er:c:,nsrer.h1:c:.
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Wl:y tho bin.rid, l~cll1:-~c~t :-, :.ct.:!onO!l ~:.:,
~::d :, c!:,,:.;l:te:r who c:lcd 25 yc:-.rs c,::;o).
Abt, Do.nicl Uub!n, P.lld Arnold Johnson,
par:; c! moot Amcrlc:,ns?
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o~ !c:1.r th::u1 ther do•

rcscntntives,

pr!s.-,i tl, hc-:ll" o! the wl:.-ct.'lp,>!ng nnd bu!!gin; ,:.! Dr. King-. Could Clnrk po5slbly havo
bL'('!l 1m:1w:1;-ct.!1:1; :PnI o!li.:lnls were ~olngbc!o;c c-,m(;r.:-ss!on,:! conunlttecs :i.ncl p:irtly
Jus:!!ylni:; Inri;er :1pp:·o;iri~tlo:1s by.titlll:1t1ni
so:::t' N:i:~rcss:ue:1 :rnd feeding :intl-K!ng
:i.:1~n\,m!Uoa to Sonthcrncrs who c!.:s:ilsed tl\e
c-!,·;: r!:;lt:.s lc-:i<lc-~-:111b;•- w:i~, of i-e,·e:iling
"t:d!nt.~·• p!ckcd up througl1 the: ,;,.•iretnps nnd
unnw:frc

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the Increase In the Pi3I's :i.ppropr!:i.tlon over · In th:it poslt!on, he was used as a speech
n pcriocl or years, :incl it ,~·:1salleged that be•
e-0mpanlon !or V::c
1 writer rmd t,aveling
c:1\rne ot Its Dircclor·s "nh5orbing intcr<::;t ln . President
Lyndon B. Johnson.
llls rr.:,Jc,r

ccrbln

J?BI
1c-~,king to

Jnvcsttgntlng
n1lcgcd subvcrslYc nctivlt.les"
the PBI wns f!?.lltr..gbehind Jn its regular jc,b
of dc:il!r~; with other t:,;;.:,cso! spcci~c :Federal
· • -: ~violations (Daily \Vor;:er, l\-farch-25, Hl-10).

!"..r!\Y!
.:>a":1~:
cditvrs "O..:>!s1Jnous
stvr!c.; :t.bvut Dr.
Ka!g: :i!lCt ,,·h:-,t-tlic bug:zings nH~;cdly, hnd

re-.-c.\led? •
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En,;·ybodr c:se.l:1 Washington or nny conS<.'(lth~:,ccknew It, :md m:i.ny deplored It, but
no o:1c sc~:n('d to know· how to ,. 0 ntxmt ·
m:iki::g tl:e FBI bend to the 1:1wso/'the land.
Tl_:~:e Is :i not-too-i]..Lnp:i.nt assumption In
\\':"ISs\m~ton that J. Ectg:ir Hoover has be:en
FB! director !or .;5 ye:1rs bcc.-iuse :111the recent ?rcs!dem.; h:ive :1ss1::ned th.1t he knew
too m\lch i-.bout them to be renlaced. so not
only wris he not rnp!~cl
by any ot tho
yoc!1:;e:, vc:-r :t.b1e FBI rne:i !n the no:-m:t.l
co"..tr-3~
o! thin5s. but Presidents Johnson :ind
.... _Nixo:i htlvc f~lt i~ ,1o·Isco:- expedient to ~-~ive
s In,;,.•s..~;:\i; Hoover ha.; re~ched the roc;~ng-

ch_::_!.r
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.nOO\·er O\:gnt to be replaced

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r~cto:--!nt:~C'7:!ately.
. ··As \\'"~s;1::1~on 3 ;;e!"!Cj"'
he~ds go. Roovc:
:n:iy h::ixc c!oae a better job than :ncse. But
the- ;>cop?e o~ thts cou:1try- k:1~\'• s0~1.c:l'lil1g
v:hcn tt~ey l!..,-iit~d the time one nu\n ml;h4;
s~:-\·~ h~ th~ p:-cs~dcncy. T"ne s~\\. pe:-sonnl

:t!most :,.nyo~c. The J.:ind o! a.busc o! a~d conthe Jaw m:inifest in th<.'Kin~ nr.d

•.•t:!::-.:1.~,;1:idc:wc:;drop;>i:1g bcccn:c

\ achtcvc1ncnt for the S!.:t.tc Dcpart:ncnt.. ~10-.~! c·:cr, was to sc:-vc :'-~ the r:cnne:dy Ac.t:r.!n!s; tr~ttion's cffic!cnt h1.tc!1.ctr::~n r..z,,.!r:.;t :.~,,:~c

s Tshombe o! the Congo's Katang:i Provi;;ce. -·
The Nnzl 0('st.-ip~ Is Hoover's Moclel of Con-.\ Whc:n Tshc.:nbe's
anti-Communist
rczi:r.o
d11c~ !or FBI (Datly Worl:cr, December 19, • seceded !ro:n the rest or the chnotlc Co:1.;o,
19·10,p. 5, eol11mns 5, 6, nnd 7),
\ Rowan branded Tshombe as an "lnt<:ns:t•
Federal Bun::i.u o! ~nvc:stlg:i.Uon Director
, tional Uncle Tom" who Wa!i not::lng more
J. Edgn:,Hoover w:i.s.r;ferrccl tons "Shle! ot !ihnn
n hand•plc;:ed
stooge for Bcl,:i?._:i
the nn,1onal thougn.
police • • •
(Eel!- Ibusinessmen.
.
torinl, PolWcai ADairs, J:i.mmry 19·W, p. 10). I In 1963 :i.ncl 19c.;, P.owan ~.-as U.S. AmIt seem th:i.&the FBI • • • Is wor,lecl that • bassador to F'lr;l::nc!. I:i. l!iC<; and Jf.65, be w:,.s
the Amerlcim people mny get wise to its real I Eciv.ard R. !-~u:row's successc::- :i.s c!:rc:!c.~
:!un~tion-wh!ch
ls thought control 0:1. t':e / o! the Unl!ed SZ«tes In~or:-:1:-.t!cn .-'.;;enc;.
Gcs"'apo nr..d Japa11c.:;e police model {Ed1- 1 \Vhile in th~t po<-lt!cn, hc tra.·,·c1;ed t.o Et:•
to:·inl, 7.:hcl:/orJ.:er,Jtn:e 6, 19.;.s,p .. 6).
I rope, pro:r.o!.ins- Lynd:>:-" Jo:·n-:so::.'s b:-!C:;e
The .r,BI and the De:p~.rt?nent of Jt?stice ! bullding" bet,i;cen the United S::-~~e3s.::d tr.e
hnve de;•elopecl into n secret political pol:ce ! Communist bloc or en.:;,ern Eu:,:,:,~. Ee -.c::;
:'vhlch. e:..:!;;f ~:,1tsid; \h':_l~w and beyond the ~ out of his ,,·a:t to a.!s....:.re
Co~:=.. ....
t:::s: lc~t:e:s
,.U.S. Gons""'\,t11.,10:1.
,.n nrouscd nation i that the t;r.~:t'd StJ.:.es gc,:e::-;.::.:.c·r..r.
!ild
must stop the FBI effort to r~pl:\COthe Arec:-i- { plo.ccd its ;>e:~c.:::.~nt s~al o! a;~:-c,-;:~1 on
cnn Constitutioa by th~ re!e-n of the po!it:..:·a1 Eurc,~·s Co::1:-:~i·:--.!s~
:-c-!:r:.~s. '.Z-0~~ at:.•
· sp:.; (Editorinl, Dai!y ..\-;luri:cr1 Ji:nc 13, 1949, "\dic:1cc in llci~:-\1c!c. Y°'-•£;.;~:.....-!a..
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p. 7) ·
·
·
th?~t Amc:dc:tr.s ,;·ere rict:te::• r.:;::~:-..!
o! :-~-:~!u-

fierdon1s as ln!m!cal to the de:\1ocrric;·. the
p.:-rso:ial rrec'dom, th:it ,;,.·e have con:e to
cherish.
.
•
. · I! it Is d:in;;ero\:s to hnve one ma:i. se:ve
three !ull t<!:-ins c.s Prcsiclcnt, It 1~ fa.r more
d:ingcro~
to h:ive one man t:ike lifet!me
ss
·
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po.. CSS!O?lo. a po'sc: ...t: po. ce-invcs!.iz:itiv¢
tl.:;:~~.:-y
:h3: pro-.:ls!ato the dcc~cs: sccrc.!.s or
'thC :nost p:-o!n1:~cnt, r:~ost hor~oicd cltizc:1s
•
nn d ..h :,s tn~ p,o,:.:c:-to d!scrcdit. c-·.·cn dclt:-vy,

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for

(B:, Francl:; :x. a:mnon)
Carl no·1:an v:as r,0m 0:1.Au;;ast 11. l~:!51:\

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nlumnus o! Obc:.-lin Cv1lr·~:e (A.B .• l'.H7) :1::d
17, 1050)
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• the Unlver:,lty o! :l\~lnn<:<.o~n(!-.f.A., 1~·13). P.e
, S. FEo;;r.Ar:num: ,\'U o;, T:-:vr-:sTIC:.\TlO:S- · 11s the author or So11th of Freedom. (19:;J),
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and the l'roud (195G), Go Sout'~
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gn 1~ occ .. u~c O \ c o~is ·=snu 1""upOI. civ 11 and No Nccc! for ITun er (1' G2)
liberties" Eclltorl:i.l. (Daily Worker, March 13.
g
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19
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~8 un_tll lOGl, Ro ;:1n ~,::.s with the
An nrtlclc In the D:illy Worker lncllcnted
.Mmncapolts Trtbt:nc :is n cop:;wr!~r
(19{3that tlle FBI had gone beyond the scope o! 11950) :ind ns a st:.:r writer (1950-l~Gl).
Its :111t!1ority Jn conducting
general lntem-.:
From 1961 ui:tll 1963, Ro•,::1:1.was r, c!c;mt:,gence hwestlt:i.tlons. Re~erencc w;:s macte to : assistant secretnry- of st:ite !or-;;..:bl!c af:''.l::s.

'I'll,, pu::;:lil~5 th!n~ nbout Clarx•s st:itemeat ls thnt he acts ns thou:;h he is s\tr-

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by :1. comnuttee of this

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He :1tlendcd. T<:r:.n<:,sc.eS:r,le uni•
un-1\merlc:in Activities. U.S. House of Rc:p- ve:rs!ty :i.11d W:ishbum
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Honse nc:irly 30 year,; nc:o:
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insc-rl~t lh:s i,c,h~·t in 1:~:, ,;~mnri:s_:i. sun-oifan
Dr·. Franc!!; X. Gr:r.nc~. ~:i:: 11•,c,:;t
mary of tlus Cgmmmu:;L .i:'arLy )JllC, ac:- recent biographical s~:e:tc:ho: P.!;·;:~,:1: ·

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-E.vteJJsioJJs. of Ramrtrks

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Contin.uatlo:i of t • • P•_?tests ca:\ turn
the rumors nbout J. Ed6:t.r •Hoover's rc3lgna-

•tion~:-y ch&r.zcs s·.r:c-~;;!:-.gt~c \'o\:•:~d.R'e c:'\'h!orated: "\'le. e:np:'l~.s~zc t~a~ v..·e bc!!e-;-e 1:--..

tlon Into r,cti:al P.lld he:irtening
!net (E11- · ; change becra:.se we were ccr:1. o: !:, ,.-e t.~-.-~
torlnl. Daily People's World, June 16. l!i-i:l. , li,;ed by I,, v.·e p~c:;>(-red n~d r.~,.-c:.::.~ !:>J
P, 6) •
.
So tl',c st~tus cuo t.::s ne·:e: b~en ou::- g;;c:
The F'BI's "\lndercovcr network" ls n n:en:ind we :izk no cne else to bow c!o·;::n be~:ire
nee to the 1ntcrn:il scc.:rlty o! the nation
!It"
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must go. We have no c!oubt which the people
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JOINT.
COMMITTEE
ON ATO!v!IC
. ENERGY
ME~.1:BERS . SPEAK TO
NATIONAL COAL ASSOCIATION
\

· HON.CRAIGHOSIVIER
07

CALI:FO:ll'.IA

IN T.dE HOUSE OP P•EPRESE)ITATIVF..S

. Monday,

June 16, 196~

, Mr. EOSM:ER. Mr. Speaker, Repre-·
sentutive Joux B. A:xo;;Rso:, and myself
had the pleasure of spcak!ni this morning to the 52d anniversary co:wention
of the National Coal Associr.tion .. our,
respec~ive speeches foHow:
Nz==:>:til: A PL.-\Ci: Ti:::.J.-:-y

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oa Ato:r.!c
Enc:-gy, Be:-:orc the N:?.t1o::.al Cv:il .-\.s.soclv.tlo:~. ::-.l:l:,f!ower E:otel, Washlng:.vn,
D.C., J1.1~e lo, 19£:l)
Good mornlng, ladles and gentle..:ne::i, I
hope 1t. isn't t-oo e:.:-?j• !n the ci.17 to si)~:...}:
to you about a se:ious su'b!cc:.
I re!c:-- to the 1:icre~:;!ng- p~;):!~ op;>jsition, no~ a 1:it;c o: It --;;•!'lo:l;"t::'!~C:\~:~!:~:;.
to the co~st:-\~ct.!:-,n. o! a?l c:c--.::!:!c po ·.i.·e-!"
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FBI'S HOOVER CALLS CARL RO\VAN A RACIST .
Vera Glaser and JVIalvina Stephenson
Knight Newspapers Special V✓ritersWashington: FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover called Negro colmnnist Carl To
Rowan a racist Tuesday while discussing the controversy over the tapping
of the teiephone of the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
In an interview Hoover was asked who started the current
dispute which already has involved President Nixon and 3 former Attorneys
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UntU now, Hoover has 111adeno comment on the feud
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Hoove1·rs fast reaction to the Rowan column ca.me in the
form of a letter signed by his long time aide, Clyde A. Tolson.
Later Hoover told a reporter about two men1oranda. in
FBI files which he said documented his claim that Robert F o Kennedy
as Attorney General both suggested and authorized the wiretaps on King
to detect possible communist contacts ·;· · ·.-. ·
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made public.
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Both Katzenbach and his successor, Ramsey Clark,
however, that Ke1medy authorized the tap on King's telephone on
October 10, 1963,
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He said Mr. Nixon telephoned him before the press co1ue1~ence
· last week;. and "personally investigated" the King wiretap authorization.
Discussing his general attitude toward electronic
surveillance, Hoover said he has always been opposed to unrestricted
wiretapping by Federal agencies.
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it tarnishes the FBI1s image.
This assertion: also contradicted the statements of Katzenbach
and Clark, who ·said he was constantly goading them to tap phones.
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account of why Dr. Marlin' Luther King's phone· -was
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t~:it Hoc\·eJ' hr.s ~a!lc pt.blic wr:s fc·-,slb:r .
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Ls very . sir:\!l.iir--<:xct?pt the1t. 'fh~ set...)::,:i ,vts lioo\ rr·s re- bur,e.1u ,,! t!-:e J:.:$t!cc De:J:,::.rtnis acc,:,unt ;:.tlributcs. th<' ir:-rs' lll)C:'-i.for t:;.- wi,·et:ippin3 a~1- r..:cnt.
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t:1at D:. King was a .'.\!:.>:-xiftUio:•iz1'tion; it bore .Kcn:1edy's ~1 ha\'e n<:vcr ~uthoriud
t:> Kennedy.
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;iroposed tap:,ini Kil';!'s pbrne : An .FBi s;-i.;l.c<:man ~r:cle the ~tar '1'.lutec i-bi;\ er .as
to discvYcr if the d\ il ri;hts ('!~a.r in r..!s~"n~e to qu,~st!on!': i-r.yin·~. He sale~ thr> Kir..; wire•
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If it is dnn[':(::rousio hr.w:
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i·i}am- one man s-:rve tl!rc·cfull tc:nns.
a variety of Hlc;;~lFJ3I wire- fraction of the illeinl y;irctnps fai1i
laps c:nd ln;~ging; c! homes that !:ave moved this country ing-.2L)1£counfr:(
__fo,i~ing to as Presid~nt, it i::. far i:,orc:
;u:d l1o[clrno:.1s.
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. ~5)ng_a!1d tal:c lirc~in~epc!,:sc~sic,ncf a
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agency tiwt pruls in;rJ {hi?
Lul!1or 1':L1ey;,•.s u;Kl:>rclcc- Amcricnns?
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ironic survcl!i,mce in l!l~-1,md
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pcril if we r.rnyjtl'l,:;efrom lhc
'l'h,•se bug e in gs, which bils" picked up thrllueh the freedom, that we lmvc come to.
. 1mb1icl'cticticn - r,;· l::ck of i~ caught some Clny convcrsa- wiretaps and bug?:ings?
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- (o courllooin admissionsof tions in their "nd," arc but a
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lhat ccrIf it is d:micrc-us to lmre :
a variety of illegal Fm v,ire- fr2ction of lhc ilk:~nl wiretaps t2fo·FDI oificlnis ,,:~i·ei·~amone m:•n serve t.hrccfoll terms•
taps :md huggings of homes that have mo';cd this country ini_}_J.:.cf.'
corn~ri.
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and hotel rooms.
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_cd;fo1s p1)Ji-Oncus dan£;t>rmg lo have one m:!u
A Justice Dc;>:?rtmrntoffi- lhnn mod Amcrici.ns rea}i,c. stories ab:mt Dr. l~i1~1and hike lifetime po;;session of a.
cial ncl;nowlct1!.'.Cd i!l Federal
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_bu?{rJ1igf_°?Dizedly powerful policc-invcsti;;dirn
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ngency that prods into th,\
Luther Kini was unc1cr clcc- Americ,ms?
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ironic surveillance in lS:H?.ncl
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A socie:tv is n~·,cr ia more mer hcavywcisht boxing
peril ihan ,,;!Jentll'.! p:-op'."'lo:c cl1ampiJJ1Cassius Cby's effort
the ability to Vi~;:tif;•::. genu- to m·crlurn a fi\'e-year prison
ine t.Ju-e•,tto p"r~,-·,··l J":1,,-~v i:cn!'cncefor his refusal to be

titillatini some· cm,grcssmen
something when lh::y limilccl·
and fci'iling anti-Kinz amnn_~- the lime m~emr-11mr;;ht serve·
niti01f to__
Sonti:c1:ncrsv:ho clc- in the presidency. 'ihcy saw
spised Ille civil rights leader pei-sonnl fiefdoms as foimical:
'l'his ~;~cie:ty·i; -f~''
a "i;t
drafted.
·- all by y;ay of reve,.ling "lid- 1.othe <lcmocrac·y,the personal
}Jeriljf we may ju{:gcfrom tha
'l'hcse hug gin gs, which bits" picked up through the freedom, that we harn come lo.
. public rc:?ction - or kck c,fit caught some Clay convcrsa- wirel:?ps and bn3!;ings? .
cherish.
- lo cowtrom:1 admi~sionsof Hons in their "n.:>t,"are but a
Was Clnrk unw.-:ll'eth:1tcerlf it is dangerous io hnvc
a variety of illegal FBI ,·:ire- fraction of lhe i!l('~:?l,virclaps tafo)i'J3I o:iicia!s·,,?cii·e_
i:q,un- one man ~crvc three full terms
faps and bugf,;ings of homes that ha\'c moved this country injf.j_t~2.2Eig1j.:Jea~ing
lo as President, it is far more
and h0kl rooms.
far closer lo a p:,lice state
11ew,sparcT_c:c._1lors
1w1,:01!nttsdanr.:erous to lun-e one m:in
A Jnslice Dc;i:,rtmcnt offi- than most Americm1:;realize. stQdes__a 1xm_t_Dr. I(.ing_and take lir~tin,e possession of a
ciaf ackno~·.-lc:l~!(;G
in l?cdrtal · Why the bland, indifferent w!}at J.h~_puggiJ1gs.=_ajJ~gcdly
powcrfnl jiclice-ill\"esligath·<5
District Court that Dr. r.fartin rcactic:1 on the part of most had revealed?
agency thnt prods into !h,i
Luther Kini w;:,s under elcc- Americans?
~very body_cl">~,in_'\'f.~sh!ng- Jcepcst secrets of t:1e mos::
tronic i-t1n•c-i11;-nr~
in l!l:H nnd
First, there is lhe general tqn -of r1:iy cc'.ns~·:!U':.',,r~
knew promil,cnt, mo:::thonored citi...
1!;65,m::1 !i,e FBI 8Jcnt who J.:Bl jusli?:,1ti;,11JcJ!:
such t:ic- j_t.i..J!ndme~!?.9~lJ:g_;~<-)
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. no oiic-seemedto know how to credit, even cbslroy, almost
told the court "it was my un- / Former Altri-ncy General,, go abc,;t making !he FBI bend anyone. The kind of abuse of
clerst:mdin~ that it went pn< Haiiisc\•-clai:1;:;\~-J:o
~Gtcs em- ; to the Jaws cf thG land.
and contempt for the law manaft~r tha~."
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nu had no . There is a not-too-flippant ifest ju the King and 1\Iuham-~i'nr!.wn_olctruth 1s tha\ Dr. _atilhority· ·to ,•:in:!ap er bug assumption in Washington that mctcl cavc~drop~)i11r,become
I\.mg's pnc-~1rs,rnrc tapi)ed, nr·.Kinct;"f.s:s'crts·nnt"th~ im- - J. Ed'"'.arHcover has been FBI almost inevitnb!c when a man
liis hote:lrcoms ~:.1z~cd,n;\I ~e , pltc~tis~-l!i'i,LJi:o?c·-1hr,tight/
dircclOi.' for '13 yca:·s because fa left in a key job i,s long as
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all [he rcccnt f'r,.,siclentshave Hoover has-bc:m.
; 11p to tJ,et"~·:~/~ '·";.~1 an, 1,'-..I~s_oatt:£[\(•ous.'' . :
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Were I-I o o v e r a more
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se- much t.hout th<;mlo be re- thoughtful man, or as con! Another Fm agent, C. Barry
curity"-ifinore powc.:rfulthan placed. So not only was he not
·;rickclt, to;,~U,3court in IIou_s- ",notherh::iod," for it evokes rep1..cd by any of the young- cerned about th:; peservalion
a11d liberty as
1' ton, Texas, that for four sohcl fear ;;nd men s!ili surrender
er, vcrv able FBI men in the of dem::i(!r;,.cy
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hours a cl2y,fi\'c d:.ys a week, ty - out 0£fear lhr:n th~y c!o Presit'.ents Jo!mJe,nar.d X:xcn ha\~ l 1,:;.,.,, ... Cl le ..,, ...,,o.. t-Ic
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The pu~zling th1ng ahc,ut to waive a law sayin'.;Hoover dc:1'.0s
6 tc k":..qJ!:i:1; or e?.:;e
Black l',ius!ims. Pi~ ,elt em- Clark's sl,,t:;mcnt is that he has reached the roddng-chair C:cci:lir.
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ip l,f~!lar.;ni::.d's l:o:11e.
bugging of Dr. Ki!:g....~Qt 1_ld as FDI dirccto1·- im1:1cC:h,te- intcz.:llonerre:;\~1:::-1. So y;l.:::-n
Tliese cases of electronic C!,,rk._pc5~ihlvh:n·e been una- lv.
cl~:;s the Pre:sid,mt mus'.er ti:e
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:rDI :o:f:dals·\;·ere. ; · As 1rnsh:!1gtonnfer.cy l~eads cc'.1:·age to say: "\'i'ell d.:i::e,
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iustif-.,.... better job than nHisLB~t U:e ll:ou go::ii a:1df::itl.ful sernmt.
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HC)USTON, Tex.; .June 5· Jt;sticcDcpartmcntu~lit
Clay
(Al') -.An FBI agent tc~tified ~p~c~led his. 19G7 conviction.
in · tho Cassius Clay: wiretap Cla'y : ,U1en received . the maxi:
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con\•ersat1ons or ElJJnn Mutared by . Federal _agents at h ain mad while · workin g as a
least four years. .
clerk in the . FD( office in
, . Similar testimony Wedn~s: .Phoenix, Ariz., · from -1962 to
day indicated that Dr. l\Ia1:t1!1 1966. · .
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·.'.'Ymi spent :four :/ears of
i·i'C!hts leader, had ·been under , vcrnr Jifc Jist:cniny to (:011\;f~r sa -'
( 1c·ttro nics ?llr.yeill_ance· from. Li'o1Ys~f-thc.kacler
o[ the i\l u::;1964..until his death iri' 1968. · Hr1i religion'?" Morgan asked . .·
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:tcnnine whether_ the _wir~taps ca t eel the_ three Black iV[i1
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affected
.the .trial rn . ,,-hi ch.j conversat1011s h:icl been mom• I·
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Th e fo r mer . hea,·y'.re!ght , ?11:-trch24. 19ti4. summa r y ;Of a
bo xin g ch a m.pion :_-·coht.endc<l j ·coii.vdrsation · .between · <':lay
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Age nt C. Barry Pickett_ o.f !quiet after t,21ling him he j
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, con ,'e r sa u ons I hea rd out prc"I am tr vi ng to pro·.ce he h ad ' narcd only "Jerti:ient · fads t o
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Hoover said he sent a memorandum t otl;c Allorncy General
in which he reported that it was
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!TBI and Star columnist Carl
Howrn ovEcr lhc mann~r in
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of King
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Rowan ch:irgrd in a co1um11
Sunday that !he FBI kd no
authodl\' tci wirc!rq or bu" Dr.
KinJ's com·c·rsn{ir,m,
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memorandum in its files from
EYans to Hoover, dated in June,
1{153. Ernr.s reported that Kcn1 cdy sc::d he was concerned
aucut alleratiozis that Kir.g was
a stuc<'ntar:d belie\·er :n :.I:.lrxis:n. 1.,;enncdy,
accordinrrto t~e
EYans memorandum, expre~sed
concern that :.Iarxism might infiltrate the race bsue fa the
l"n:!ed S:u:es b!:c...~.se of K:ng·s
Ieuc:er:;hip of Xegroes throu;;h
his Souti:ern Christian Le::dersh:o Co:iference.
E1·ar.s rer.-o:-tedin fie memo
to the FBI c:.·
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said, that the a:t,1rney general
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lo a Jong sc>riesof C'har::resand
eountcr-char;:es im·olYil:~ Jusilice Dc'J:utmt!nt oftici~is the
l!fBI und Star columnist' Carl
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the conrc:.-sation:;
of King
1,1t.:re mtercepted ar.cl t.iped by
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,Sunr!ay that tl-:e FBI h:!d no
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Wiretrpring of Dr. ~Iartin Luther Ki:1s Jr.'s te!cphonc was
prop0s..:dto the FBI by then Attorney Gc·ncral Robert F. Kennedy in June, l!l53,and authcrizcd bybim in writing later that
year, FBl Director J. Edgar
· Hoover told The Star tcday.
: Hoover re\"ea1c-dlh<!contents
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of the rnce issue by Marxists
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of allegations that the
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cfo.tcd ,,_
·ith ;,Iar:-.ist ideas aucT
· followers.
Th.it u:e:r::irar.dumto Hoover,
, dated June, 1:::3, was \\Titten by
• Courl11cyE, .-,.ns,then assist ant --------,,.------------__::
director oi tr.e FBI ar.d liaison
man with tb: Ju!;~ke D~•partment. It repjr!<o<lt;:e S'.Ibst.i.n::e
o( a c.::.m·er.
,.:.:ic,:iEvans had jus~
had ,·;iLi r.._c:::.edyin wl>ichth~
AtUJrr.ev General asked a:xmt
the foa£:bility c.f i.nstal111:g
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Kennedy, according to.1h,:- "'v- ·
ans memo, w.is cancer ; ·
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reports that King was ct. :J •. ~
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ney with laiOwn Communist
conncctio11s; but that he did not
openly espouse i1lurxism because or his religions bdiefs.,
The Ev,ms memoraudum indi-j
calecl Kennedy wanted to know ,
· if it wus technically feasible to 1
use electror.ic devkes to prove ,
or-disprove these allegations.
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Tlie Evans memo said Ev.ins
replied to Kem:edy that King
was a man ·whotraveled nhnost
const.a.11tlyand that it was extremely difficult to use wiretaps
effectively in such cases.
Hoover told The Star that FBI
officials also informed Kennedy
at that time that they doubted
the advbability of undcrta!:ing
electronic sun·eillance of Dr.
King because cf possible political repcrcussiGns.
However, foe second memorandum cited by Hoover shows
that on October 7, 1963, the FBI
chief reported to Keimroy L'!ntit
was then tcchuically feasible to
apply wiretaps to King's telephones at two places, one of them
at an mmamed location in New
York.
That memorandum constituted
the FBI's request for authority
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to proceed with the wiretap pro- had sug~estcd • in . recent d~ys
posed by Kennedy four months that, durmg 19o_4,I!} the pcno_d
before. The document bears in after the assassmahon of Prcs1thc lower left-hand corner the dent John F. Kennedy, the atsignature, "Hobert F. Kenne- torney g~nera!'~ inter_cst in
dy " and under the name the some of his official affairs had
date "10-10-63."
fla~ged. · Howev_er, th<: assassiHoover did not indicate to The nation came nearly six weeks
Star when the surveillance was after Robert Kennedy signed the
started but said the taps were authorization for the King wirediscontinued on April 30, 1965. At tap.
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that time Nicholas Katzenbach
Hoover and Kennedy, .after the
was servinct
as Attorney Gener- latter became a New York senaO
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responsible for use of hidden mi5
As~ed. about
~e ults of th; crophones in investigations .
elect! omc _sun e1Ilc:nce toda:,,
Evans fi<1ured in that controHo~ver declme? comment.
versy whe; Kennedy maclc pub_'1h: /BI
director told '.fhe lie a February, 1956, letter to
~tar.
! have nev~r authorized him from Ernns which made the
~stal1~~1on of/echmca _l_~lectron- point that the use of hidden mi1c ~e, ices .,,1thout - \\11ttcn au-I crophones was not Kennedy's reth~;1ty of tne Atto.ney Gener- sponsibility but suggested he
al.
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may have directly approv i;d the
Today's d;sclosures chma.-xed,use of wire~aps on pho;;.es. That
a long smoldering contro;•ersy letter said lhc FBI sent n::c:onal i
over the role of the FBI, a sub- securitv wiretao rccru(;s t.s to ·
ordinate bureau oi the Justice KenneJy for ap;n:oval. •
Departme nt, in using wiretaps
It is reliably reported L'lat
or o:her elcctron:c devices i.'l Ke::.r.cri;• was rem:r.ced by the
investigative matters. Tbe mr.t- ; FBI t:-:::t it still bd in its files
' V/nen
. ~ tl ?e at:!!.orJZitlons
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s?gnco
Carl Rowan , a c0::::1;r:i~tfo::-Ti::.?: as Att:,:-ney Ger:cral f:lr te:e- -,
Star, cl:'.:rg.::d ti;~ ~ foe FE.I b:i , i;::.:.i: \, ;r,:,~aps.Ho-.;,evcr, Ibo- 1
no autf!o~;:y to Y\ire~
~P Dr~! ,·er c!:i r.otc:;~:iose at "L~a:t::ne,
King's corn-,:,rsations. He c;·.:c,
tC'.ia:::,- nau,es of persc:\s i.::1derI
former Atto:-ney Ge=eral I'..:rr.- .r:n:ta.p surveiliance \\i:..i. Ken- 1
sey Clark, who succeeded 'Kat-: nedy's ap;>roval.
I
zenbach, as sayir:6 •·tr.e i::1p::ca-1 At t!:at s~age, Kenne:iy and
tion th~,t people th:iu::;ct Dr. •Ho~ver broke off the public ex- 1
King was a security threat is · ch:.r.ie oi charges as if ty mu-1
outrageous."
itual consent. This \\ as regarded I
The Ro·wan charges pro~?ted partly as d:.ie to r:er.:-iedy·s ruli-1
Associate FBI Director C!yde A. z,,!.ic,n th:.t h:s sig:i\!d au~horizaTolson to "Tite to Rowan eari-.- tions were still in FLI mes,
this week defending legality
partly to the FBI's desire not t.:>
the King wiretaps.
to/
1have special a!ter:~on c:::-awn
"For your in!~rmat icn," Tol--its ir,vestigative tecbiq~ ·ec; nor
son saij in hls Je!ter. "L1:ew:::-e-'to er.;a ;:;:
e in a ba~tle v ::h t.'Je
tap on ~Iartin Lu~her K!r.6 Jr. K_,r.;:e~r fore-es t~at co;;(:! have
was spcc if:caliy at=;ircved in ac- pc::tical overtones.
vance in ,, :-,~ing by the !:l~e.it
The Justlce Department on ,
torney general of the rn .ted Tt."J:,.Jay dedined a d:rcct
States,
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therefore \\as \;i~i.'1 the pr:iv i-!
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of the United States."
Evans, now a Was!:ing!on lawyer, was en route to Puerto R1co1
today and could not be reached
for comment. Ho·.-.-cyer,
Tccsday
night E\·ans said he had no reco.llcction of whether a v..ireuip
authorization d:rected at Kin6
had ever been inw,JYed in his
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mad e~ves?rOi,pinJ become
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and foedin~ anti-King ar.mm11.itionb Southerners who cle- f !hou.::;htfulman, or as con- l coura;e lo s&y: "Yi"c!ldone,
fl cerned ab:.;uttbe preservation ~-tb~ good and faith:ul servent.
spiml the civil rights leader
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p!o:,-e:Ih('~h a iclc1:bme wireThe
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peril if we may judge from the
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Dr. King, ,vho heads the
Southern Christ!an Leudersh.:'>
Conference, was released o;!
bond from the .st. Augustine, :
Fla., jdl on Saturday, where
he hr:d been held after a civil
rights sit•in demonstration. He
wr.s one of 13 pex·sons who re. CC!l\·ed
honorary C:egrecsz.t the
:University's 263d commence;ment.
The others included Peace
Corps Director R. Sargent
S:d.ver, Under Secretary cf
State W. Averell Harriman,
Sen. John Sherman Cooper ,
(R•Ky,) and stage personalities _
Alfred Lunt and his wiie, :
Lyn::i For.tanr.e.
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Dr. Kmg saia:
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cutrage, so your st.:?ad.:astrefusal to counter.~r.ce Yiolence
in resistance to inj:i.stice has
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pai:::ns partly in search of
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Southern Chri5tian Leader1ra..;tttr~,!1 Pest s:au \\"r!tc:-s
ship Conference after sufDr. :.fartin Luther King fcrin~ setbacks in last rear·s
Jr.'s dramatic bolt into the Korthern civil rights drives.
.\merican Pl'ace movement , Some of his long-time ad;,as provoi:ed a long, secret- mirers complain he is just
terribly naive.
,:: wa:red stru!":;~lewithin the
Through
a turbulent
~l·iil rights coalition, engag- month of soul-searching, Dr.
ir. ~ political forces ranging
King himself was uncertain
irPm the radical left to top
about tactics but never
Jo,~nson Administration cir- about the basic issues of attacking the U.S. war polidt·s in Yictnam. 'l'o one and
At stake is the prestige
and influence of the inter- all, he maintained he has a
n_itionally famous N o b e l moral obligation to delaureate, the direction of nounce the war.
He was under heavy presgrowing anti-war crusades,
sure from modrrates to disthe future of the civil rights
avow the'"racficai'. left who
movement, and, some feel,
the course of Presidential '
1J >litics in 1968.
Dr. King's appearanc,;
v~sterday at New Yo1.il's
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point of long debate.~ Even
.rnme advisers who urged
him to speak out on the war
in Vietnam opposed his
•haring that platform with
1•,·pre.sentatives of the New
L<'ft and the far-out Old
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wanted him to p!ace all the
war blame on the CS. and
to merge unequirncally the
moniments for peace ane'
cMl rights.
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Hanoi nor the Vietcong of
their respon:;ibilities" and "I
have not urged the mechanical fusion of the civil rights
and peace movements."
That declaration-which
drew boos from some extrt.:r
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Ycu:1~ on th~,t point ,vere
n·ost of Dr. K!n::::':,o:,!er ai\"lsC'r£.The S:1turday ra.::y,
th(>y ar,zu<:>d.was open to
anyon(>, and its support,'rs
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left, inciudir.; the Amer:.;;.•~
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wou'.d be aY'lW<:>d~ymp!:, 1lhizcrs of the \"ietcon.:i- i ~
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\lould J,r d<:>nounc<:>d
as Xaz:like ,varmon,::(>r<:; President
Johnson would be pic-turl~d
as a mud, rt'r of chiid !·rn.
True, mo~·e moci(>rate peace
;.:roups wouid hi.: thrre, but
the radical,; with thc•ir Yietcong fla::::s \\'OUiu
attract
the n,,w, media. Dr. King's
im·nlvcm"nt. \~ould mean a
se\·crc
s<:>tback for civil,
r:!!hts. these
a cl v is e r s 1
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Chri~t::rn Lcad<:>r~hip ConThe twC1 YCIUn;rministers
frrcnrc into Chica;:ros gheta~i-erted thi:.t Dr. King had a
tr.~ ar.d Cicero·~ white neighmoral obli;:ation to speak out
1,,,rhot1ci~in the !-Ummer· of on the war. Little progregs
ifll;3 and 5uffered a serious
will be made in civil rights ,
(,rfr,at.
they suggested, so long as
I The nrw chapter opened tl-ic Xation's attention is
◄·arly this year, with Dr.
f)eused on Vietnam.
{,in; in ,Jamaica brooding
~lne of Three
~rid \\'l'iting a hook while
· 'T;:1, ~,~•t'!:!,"d :n :)(,. l)r.
r·~ .. ~,~" i~•\):· ~'-...t ait:rs. tlt(I
King's own feelings.
'l'o
l1e\'. ,Tames Bevel, moved
many friends he offered
full-lime . into the peace
mo\'emcnt as organizer of this line of reasoning: He
the Spring Mobilization to is one of three living Negro
:.\'obel Peace-Prize winn(•rs.
Enri the \\'ar in Vietnam.
One of them, Albett LutArroi·tling to one SCLC
huli, is under house arrest
assistant, the Rev. Andrew
Young, Dr. King's ambi\'a- in South Africa, and the second, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche,
lcnce really ended in February when fighting
rc- is prevented from speaking
;,,um<:>clafter the 'l'rt. or out hccause of his position
ior Po•:ictname:,e lunai· .\'cw Year, as l:ndersecretary
litical Affairs at the 'United
!truce. "He got yery hopeful
Nations. Only he, Dr. King
/luring the bombing pause,"
asserted, is free to open a
\ oun,:: said. "Thrre seemed
to be a mood for 1wgolia- debate on Vietnam.
But other close advisers
lions and d l'·C s c a l a t i o n.
Tlwn <:>n'rything began to were giving Dr. King a diff<:>rentview. l\Ioderate leadbrr:ik down-. -:>"•L-D1·. King
C'rs argut'd that open engot H'ry depressed.';'
dors£>mC'ntof a p<:>drcmow•mcnt could cripple
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that hr onec had bN'n told
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r,,u'.-i no: spend time on
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One cri~ls <'rupted C'ar!\in :\la:~t.hd:.1rini an an~ui~!:cd tdeph,mr
comersation
between Dr. King and iYhitney :\I. Youn::r Jr., exreutive
tl:!'Cl:c.~· of ,!;e Xational Crban Lt!a~ue. Doth had appcarrcJ one evenin~ brfore
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and split publicly on the war
issu<:>,with Young opposing
a "mixture"
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called Youn~ at home. T~e
two mrn a1·';t1NI until 3::,ll
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disturbed
at their fallin ~out and insisted that as h
clergyman and citiz(>n he
had a moral obligation to
attack the war.
Young, in reply, was blunt
and tough. He told Dr. King
· that his world-wide influence
was not as a theologian. He
had influence, Young said,
because of all the little peopl<:>who bd!c•\"c>clin him, and
marched behind him in ch-ii
rights mo\·cment. 1t wm' not
right to use that influ•nce
for some other puq.}()se,
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King's SCLC.
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Norman Thomas. the Social-;
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of the
mg was not left to the
\\"hil e , :\fartin was th .IS ta_tion of poor so long as
r:i iy.,1
nl ri; b :.s leaders.
Topat ~emp : ::1~ to counter Ilr . f10\·cntures J;ke Yietnam conTile rc ~t is public history.
ranking Democrats,
ir.e:udKing's ar;.:umPnl5, high J,d· ~inued ... "
'i",1u \Hc•ks latc-r, Dr. Km:;
ing \\'h!te Hom,£' officia!~,
min is'.ratitJn officials wc~·e , Of greater long-range :,:onv. ,·nt to Ch :ca_,..0 an-I, cc.lJnd
SOU;!ht to counter
his im. .
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mqumng
reporters • )
•h .\~l' r: c:rn :m·0 Jn'n:[•nt in
pact on 1>Oth Xe,7ro an~!
,. :, tnam ··barbarir and ♦-~
\\·1·•.,,t•• co•.1·.1nitn:t.;"s.
,the: r l o·.rn \'Cr~ion of Dr.
cern to the Dc>mocrat.i\ and
,,'.:,•;,!:,-my a;:ra:?:!-'t a:l th .. ~
Ewn
hei0rc Dr. Kin.;.: ; Km ,;.(! motive~.
their li hccal allies are the
\ ::a ·:·:,a ~tar.els for." On
C!Jica;:ro sp;:ech, on :\Iarc·!1 Out ol, :Honey?
.\p r:l 4. after one la s t talk , 17, a group of Segro new~ inUmations
that a merged
v. iii! J11S!Haff, he made the
pa1wr publi shers went to
The .SCLC. they su;:r~~stcd, ! peace-civH ri ghts coalition
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h ad nm
o:..it of monev• and
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Johnson
w1·th a•
r . 1\.ln~ 1rnd grahbed onto j candidat;., for Prc.>sident on
u .,, 111th<' "::!rratP st pun ·cyor of
citation for his "courage i; '
the pea cr movement
in
\·i,•k>fa•r in the world tod;(\'"
the pursuit of justice an,l
hop€.'S of re-plcnishing the
a third-party Uckct in 1968.
a•1,! 1: r .:wz ~ nuth s to avoid
fhcdom for all men." While
treasury ,
"It's more and more re•
1:1,· war by becoming cmith ~re, the:i,.· received
brie'.f.
Ru s tin. who remains close
m indful to me of the coali:- rntious oh,iectors.
ings, includin:r one on Yicf,
to Dr. King despite a diffc.>1r- tion around Henry \\'allace," Crcatcst Crisis
na:n, from
\\'hite
Hous• ,
enee ho~ \'lews, says flatlr
sa:d Josc.>ph L. Ila uh Jr.,
aides.
that t 1s charge is untru,.
liberal Wai'hington attorney
t Thal attack provoked the
Lc~is ::\Iartin, the Negro
"I've never known Dr. Kir '.! ! and a leader of the antirr~atest eri sis in the civil
deputy
chairman
of the
to take a po,ition that would . : C'ommuni~t Amc.>ricans for
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uncrf,:ence of the "Black
Power"
radicals
in 1965.
1 Other
eivil rights at first
' were reluctant. to bring the
f'.Uarrcl into the open, but
finally concluded
that siltnee would indicate assent
..n Dr. King's arguments and
npcn up a stream of criticism.
~
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Young declar~d
Wlutney
that ci\·il rights and the war
should be kept separate. lie
added: "The masses of Negro citizens we are com1mtted to serve and who have
'iven Nc"ro leaders the infi'uence t'ficy have, have as
thefr first priority the imncdiatc problem of sur\'ival
i 1 this country."
~The X.\ACP accUSC'cl Dl'.
Kin~ of making a "serious
•i.•etical mistake" in attempt~ g55:.DW1in Dmc Jj~2
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h. ::, : ! : 1 · - .! 1~1 =-~i.•11•«:·:'
m;-Uce, j:lot busy on the
Hu:::tm dcd :m•s.
pl/one,
calling
publishers,
Administration
officials al N egro ministers, labor lead- ' so expre ss {'(! concern about
e,•s, and others with aucli- : radical
influences
on Dr.
<>rie<'sthc>Ycoulcl rc.>ach.
r King's staff, and said this
11artin 's argunwnts
were
posit ion will damage th e ,
rPflrctccl in a :;pate of Negro'
alrca d Y·Shaky prospects frir •
µress editorials
noting the' ; civil rights action in Co¾ei\·il ri:;!hts gains under the
gress th is year.
\
J{nnncd,.' and Johnson AdThe extent of that damage
"
·
d b l 11 S
Ph
m 1·111·sti·at ·10ns, uming
sup1s e a a J c-. .'en.
ilip A.
,.
J)<>l'tof tlin, •''
".··"!!ro
troops 1•11 Hart <D-:'IIiC'h.>,manac;Pr of
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Yietnam, and observing that
the Administration
bill, says
the Nation's
only N l'gro
"You're
darn
right
the ·
Sc-nator, Hcpublican Edward
King spc.>echcs hurt. They
w. Brooke oi :'lla!'-sachusctts, shouldn't, hut they hav~ .• :
l.'.ad switchNI
to a proP_c•ople who di~agree with
./4.clministration
p O s it i"o"ii~• :nan . on one i~!'<UC arc 1~ss
aitPr a trip to Vic>tnam.
rncllned to go along w1th
;,\Iarlin
told
influential
~1im on ~11hrr5._ I'm afraid a,
-~<'"l'O<'!- that th<' nl"h :'\e"i·. 1
1nJJuenl1al \'Olce has been
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rc• c_nhstnwnt I ale 1s ~1:1
e,rIective 1:ehu)tal lo
l\.mg s
i,eon ,~igi~ n 2 !.>
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"~ ew Left'' p O lit i ca\,
groups in Xcw York anci
California ha,·c talked publicly for months about entNing a "pcaL·C candiclatr' (-'
in next year'5 Democratic
presidential
prinu,ries .
Last ·month,
the liberal
California Democratic Coul
f
c11, composec 1 o 30,000 vo ,·
un t ccr c 1u b mcmo-:-rs, Yoteft
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to cons1' d c1· supportmg
suci1
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 a---i::tirri1clat(' if P1~·
Johnso11 1•cf11scs to change
his Yi.ctnam \rar po!ic·:,-.
Fol101ring -Wallace?

R11,uh,recallin~ how AD.\
wai( formed to fi~ht the
Co(nmunisl - manip u 1 a t e d
"Ilrogr<.'ssh·e Party" can<lidac~·. of Henry \rallacr in
1948, said he secs Dr. King
on lht· \"Pl'!!t' or makin~ thr
same mistakr Wallace did .
"He thinks of l1imsclf as
,1' hl'idgc between U10se who
relic,·e in our !'yslcm and
t:iose who don't," Rauh said.
"'l'o my mind, that is an nnbriclqcable gap," Rauh said.
How serious is the prospect of a Dr . King "peace
candidacy" in 196S? The evidence is ambi~uous. One
ci\~n r : h 1 , }•·c.,!,,r f'U!..:;dt'
h.i1,;.:·,, circie dcscl"ibe7
him as "a sitting duck" for
sud:i a proposition. Another .
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"f}"ettnedy
wiretap on M;i:t-ini~~i1er
King
F B l v.~ays.n.
Jr. was specifically approved in
Approved lViretap
advanS7,ih writing by the ~ate
•
Att~rrey General of the Umted
OnDr.IGnlsPhone,§~~tes,
IY!r·
Robert~- Ke~nedy.
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WASHINGTON Ju
17 (AP) t~e_refore,. was withi~ the pro•
-The Federal Bu'rcau of Inves- \ 1s1~ns laid down r b_) the then
tigation attacked as "scurri- Pr~.s:d:nt of the Umted States.
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director, J."Edgar Hoover, had,wi.' 1 five tne »ame pu..1,,.::ty to
t d
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1th1s .etter as was given to your
a? e on 1115 own 111• wire ap-, scurrilous editorial."
pmg
. the
J Rev. Dr. Martin Lutherl Th e f ac t ti1at th. e GovernI( mg r.
· t appe d t.h e as::,ass1•
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,men t w1re
Th e wire ap was ;;pec1 1ca1- ,
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·t ;natec1 c1v11ng 11ts 1ea er s p 11one
Iy approve d m a vance m wn • 1 ,
r· ·d
, k
ing" by the Attorney General,:wa~ con m~e t:vo wee s agoi
the late Robert F. Kennedv the durmg hearings m Houston, on1
1whether the conviction of Cas-1
F.B.I. said.
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The bureau releaq•d the text\iuc; Clav, the former heavvof a letter wr!tten b;,- Clyde A-iweight boxing champion, wasi
• Tolson, associate d!rector, . to tainted by illegallv obta:ned evi.l
.!Carl T. Rowan, the colummst.,d·•
c· . . · r "
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,who der.ounced ;1-!r.Hoo,·er o:1 cnce. iaJ is a,)pea rn" a sen• i
Sunday and called fur the di- tence for refusing ir.d:.iction,
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rector's re,ignation.
into the armed fore\'.,.
The letter said:
1 The Justice Depar~men,, at.
"i\-Iyattention ha,; bern ca:led that time, ~aid that C:.1y at no
to the maliciou5 article whtch time had been the tar;;et of a
y,u wrote in The Washington Go'vernment wireta;-i. B:.it a
,Sundav Star on June 13. l9ti9, spokesman sa:d ;::o;ne of his
ic)ncerning :-..rr. J. Edgar Hoo- ~·onYersa:ions were over:irnrd
ver, director of the F.B.I.
,d:.ir:ng other wi~eta;iping oJ,er1 "For yo:ir
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FBI Directo, .J.
Hoover h::s oifcreci as
justification for tapping the telephones of the late
· Rev. Dr. i\fartin Luther King Jr. two assertions:
one, that this tapping was authorized by the fate
Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General at the time
it was initiated: and, two, that Mr. Ken_necly instigated the wiretapping.
The first of these assertions appears to be uncontested, althot:gh Mr. Hoover has yet to produce
any documentation of it. In cousiderable de_gree
it relieves him of responsibility for a gross intrnsion into the privacy of an honoree! citizen. The
responsibility fo:- this intrusion must be lodged. in
fairness, with the Attorney General if he clid indeed give his approval of it in advance. \Ve regret,
therefore, that in calling for Afr. Hoover's resignation recently, we imputed the responsibiiity to him
alone-there
are far better reasons than this .for
him to step down.
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The second of ;\Ir. Hoover·s assertions has bet",n
categoricaliy contested by t\rn former Attorne~is .
General, one of tliem Deputy Attorney General
under :\lr. Eennedy at the time• the wiretapping
· was begun. Nicholas Kaizenb?tch. decfored bluntly:
"To say or imply that this tap was the original
conception of Robert Kennedy-that
he was the
moving force in this situation-or th::it he had ;rnv
integri!y !~ Ld.sc.·•. H2n1sey CJar-1-:.~!i~·:nct.rlyc-aUtd
i\ir. J-IoQ'-··er'sas.~t-r-tion "Unfair ::nd d-~~('(:p~i·;e_::
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of Mr. Clark, without benefit of tl10;rajr.:--''.
proval ':' ;\ notii'er former high Fcc!cra l officia!,
Columnist Carl Rowan, says: "Certain huggings and
other surveillance of King did• not end in April.
1965. As a top Government official, I read FBI
surveillance reports on King long after the date
when Hoo,1 er says the wiretaps were ended:"
The essentiai facts of this controversy cannot: J:ie
established through selective release of materials
from the F'Bl's files. l\'lr. Hoover has a habit of
calling what he does not wish to disclose "classifiecl." w!ii .!e aJ!o,ring discreet gl.impsf:s of 1112!.erial
that: serves his purposes. His whole handling of: ·
the wiretap problem over a period of 30 years has
been, in our view, disingenuous to say the . least.
It began with an assertion that President Franklin
D. Roosevelt authorized him to tap telephones in
national-security cases: but he insisted that the
. President's letter conferring this power was classifo;:_d and therefore could not be made public; it ·
· _ be'i:ame public only recently.
\Over and over again, moreover,. !\Ir. Hoover has
sai{I that his Bureau has tapped telephones only
in connection with national security; and he has
said this in terms and contexts which led readers
and listener.-; to belie'.·e that he was tapping only
in situation,; involving espionage or sabotage by
en_emyagents. l-f his concept of a threat to "national
security " embraces the leader ship of a civil rights
movement. then he lacks either the judgment or
the candor to direct the FBI.
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!\Ir. Hoover !:as heicl hi3 present job for 45 years.
It entails a· most dangerous power .. In many respect;; he has :'Crved the American people ably
and deserves their grntitude. But long before now
he ought to have handed in his resignation. No
man who doe s not recognize the impropriety and
the danger im·olH·ct in a 45-year tE·nure ns head
or,-~:-:e
r;;ct i11-.
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of !\fr. Clark , without benefit of tl;<:>lr"~'
pnn-al'? A•rntiwr former high Federal official,
Columnist Carl Rowan. says: ..Cert:.iin huggings and
other surveillance of King did not end in April,
1965. As a top Government official, I read FBI
· surveillance reports on King long after the date
when Hoover s3ys U1e wiretaps were ended."
The essential facts of this controversy cannot be
established through selective release of materials
from tlle FBI's files. l\ir. Hoover has a habit of
calling what he does not wish to disclose "classific.:l." ,, !!:!•· , ''.• •·:.":P! 111<:<"reet
-:l·"-,:',,:s of rn"tcrial
that serves his purposes. His whole handlmg of.
the wiretap problem over a period of 30 years has
been, in our view. disingenuous to say the least.
It began with an assertion that President Franklin
D. Roosevelt authorized him to tap telephones in
national-security cases: but he insisted that the
President"s letter conferring this power was classifiGd and therefore could not be made public; it
be1!ame public only recently.
-Over and over again, moreover, Mr. Hoover has
said that his Bureau has tal)i>ed telephones only
in connection with national security; and he has
said this in terms and contexts which led readE>rs
and Jistene1:; to bc-Hevc that he was tapping only
in situations inrnl\-in~ espionage or sabotage by
enemy agents. If his concept of a threat to ''national
security '' embral:CS the leadership of a ciYil ri;hts
more:n~nt, U:en he lacks either the judgment or
the candor to direct the FBI.
:.Ir. Hoover has held his present job for 45 years.
It entails a mo:;t dan 6erous power. In many res,>ects he has sc-:·red the American pe(,ple ably
and deserves their gratitude. But long before now
he ought to haYe handed in his resignation. ~o
man who does not recognize the impropriety and ·
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terday lhal the Rev. i\Iartin Lu" Evi~l~.11,~e
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1her King, Jr., had been under
I_~m_h~11-o ~o pto\~ h~ h_ad
"You obtained the infomation
wiretap surveillance:for al least
sp~c':1~!nstrnct!ons_to,
o?tam 1~by electronic bugging?" .Mr.
four years before his death last
f?1111«Lo.i ~n foe 1 el,g10usb1.:- Morgan
asked.
ear
hefs of llus defcnC:,:nt,"Mr.
"Correct."
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l\Jor•'an fold Jwi"'" Jo In<'ra.C. Dal'ry !'1d:e[l a J ac~s?n•
ham"'of the u s .n\t
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1 1
. fv1l~e(J:'la._)FBI ~gent, t~shf1ed
··.:iu; m'ies ·f0ui:; ~:1dour :
ries were prepared on each con- I·knowleclne
1-rr.Clay ncvl'rh l:"•
toaay tnat he momtor.:>d
:'Ill'. :Mu- ___ .11111
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<>
ycrsa!ion.
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been
under electronics sun·c
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Jiammad's conversations from
v~rsd!lllns·involving.~-?,l::';-";.",8~-e:y
"\\"ha~to yo;'.
was pertinent?." , Janee i~-0uisvillc, J~~~~:~
1962to 1£6Swhile worbng as a
were admitted into evidenceyes:\Ir. :.fo1gan asl\ed.
1towrr.- - ··
J·clerk in the Phoenix(Ariz.)FBI
terday. One involved Dr. King
"WhateverI consideredof val-·· ·- ..
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. Frederick A. Brownell,a forJim officials.
"i\"hat criteria did you emply
111erspecial agent at Pl:oeni:-:,
Judge Ingraham hc1da fifth ·for determining \\~1atyou consisaid he had supervisrd the sursummary in a sea:cd envel0;Je dered 1:~rlinent'?"
veillance there prior to hls rebut refused to admit it into the j "There were written instrnctiremenl in late 19C5.
rccord on the groundsf:1atsuch
tions but not for a particular
· "I cannotreccll r,hen the case
action could endanger national 1ca:::e. They were ge;r.eral, a
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-ivasopened. b:it it p:·cbc:J!y was
sec1.,rity.
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ns to what we were lo
around JP-30,"
:.\Ir.Brc-;rnellgo!d.
The monifored C0!1i'ersalions listen for. facts re!ev?:;t to the
l\!r. Bro·,•;1,e!I
v;as the go·;crnwcro not revealed b\· foe Jus!ice- 1case we-wereworking
ment's final witness.
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::\Ir. King warned that a doc- spent millions of dollars on
LOXDON, Dec. 6 - Xobel trine of black supremacy was: storing surplus foods. It could
Prize-winning American Xe- a:; great a dan~er a~ one of' be stored free of char:;rc, hei
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)Ir. King al:-o advocated
grow out of the influx of col-• ·"Too many of our white Commttm:,t Chma's memberored immi:;rr:int, to the Brit- brothers,'' said }Ir. King, "are · shi;:> in the Unite<l Xations.
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}Ir. King made his call for · economic problem,,, their so-' C-!.ina '•in s,1ite of its d•~~potic
blacl: and white brotherhood cial status,
their p:>litical and to tali tar i a n regime"
befol'e a packed con;rc;ration powers and their ::o-c!a!ledway• would lwlp tow:,rd d:•arma•
,in St. Paul's Cathedral. He was· of life."
ment efiorts and a su:..pension,
· the first Baptist e\·er to mount
Of his own people he said: of all n•.iclear tcs:,-.
the An;!lican pulpit under Sir . "\Ve must not seek to ri5e
:.londay )Ir. Kin~ \\ill meet
. Christopher
Wren's mighty from a position of disadYan· members of Parliament
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I1 The no\·clty of an .-\merican stitutin~ injustice oi oue type Churches before actrlre~~in;; a
Xegro preacher at St. Paul's for that of anolht-r."
'Chrisforn Action m<'etin~ at
brought more than 4000 to The .'l.merican preacher, who City TPmple on the racial
evensong. Persons of all races had breakfasted with visiting i5sue. He lean's Tue~day for
crowded the nave. ~!any had Prime :.Iinister Lal Bahadur Xorwar to c0l!ect lns :\'obel
to stand in the ai~!es.
, Shastri of India, said .\merica Prize.

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OSLO, Dec. 10 (UPI}-The' need for man to overcome kind," Dr. King told the au-, Ala., to Oslo bears witness to
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King oppression and vi o le 11 c e dience, which included per-\ this truth. This is a road o,;r,.r
Jr. accepted "with an abidin!{(without resorting to violence haps the largest number oflwhich millions of Negroes ,1,t
faith in America" the S54.600 and oppression."
nonwhites ever to attend a traveling to find a new sense
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freedom and equality in the. In Stockholm at about the were a number of uniformed the Norwegian Xol>el ComUnited States.
1same time, two .\merican American Negro military of-j mitlce, hailed D1·. King in his
Dr. Kin~ ,yas visibly moved, scie~t!sts received a?·ards in ficcrs, South African stu?.ents ip.resentation address as "thcl
by the stirrmg ceremony to-: mechcme and physics. (See and a group of Dr. l\.mg's: first person in the WC'<:t<>rn
day in which he was pre- related story.)
The Peace. followers who said they had· world to han• !'h,,". n t ,. ~: :,t
sented the e:10.::,, diploma Prize is giYen in Oslo because scraped and saved to come a struggle can be wagcdj
and gold medal as the winner; the winner is selected by a here for the ceremony.
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D~. King slress~d the n~- 1 • The ceremony was telc., The au di(' n cc included to be awarded the Nobel• cess1tv of nonv10lence
111, vised
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members of his family and ' Peace Prize. An American,iwhat
he called the struggle ;After the i;pcech, Dr. King
friends
Kiner Ola\' V and' Ralph Bunche, Deputy Sec-• for social justice and said• was prc;:entecl to Kin::! O;r,v
Crown' Prine: Harald. repre-.retary General of the United "sooner
or later all the; and Prince Harald and shook
sentativcs of the government, Xations, was the first, in 1950.; people of the world will have : hands with them while the
members of the diplomatic The second was Chief Albert to discover a way to ih·e audience ga\'e them a stancl-i
corps a 11cl the cream
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Kegro ci\'!l rights
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which rejects
reven~e,
ag-, will dclh·er his Xobel lecture 1
found rerognilion that non- "I accet this award today Igression and retaliation," he to students at the uni\·ersitY
violence is the answer to the · with an abiding
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bv p:-oxv hv call:n" his first m om en t in th e freedom
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in !-Upport of a union here.
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l:»:,ycott again~t foe Scripto -so:1c1tcd: P:eas are als_o go:ng•
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th<' l'.r.ited States are er.~ag-<'d ernn1ent and diplon1atic- l':'!\dPr;::, rr:e:n!Jer;s of D:·. K:n!;"s
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: that he ha,! conw to 0:-lo as Luther King- Sr .. from Ata "trn:;le ,.,·• for lh<' "i11:m:11" hnta. Ga.: ::- :-:L<tcr.)It',;. Chrio:rhlJ.ir.-: ," c•, the l';,•i! ri~ht:; tin<> Farris . rm,l a brother, the
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jn ;:ci{ar~lt'othe tattcrdonalion crew of I~e\V)~eftists -who stirred up <lisorcicr ln -thC\streets of Chiogo ..:
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·respecting electronic eayesclropping, why can it .
not be used to ju3tify set tii1g them aside_ for any
·,other purpo5•:!the Pre sident and the Dcp,!rlment of.Justic 0 mq deem expcdieHt or convenient in the protection of national security? Wiil they _some
da); th iuk it not "unreasonable " to set aside the ·:
prohibi tions - against· ?.rbitrary arrest. or against;
random physical sca1'chcs of citizens' homes
against imprisonment without trial or against suppression of speech deemed d,:rigerou s? What the .•
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Conte,nut.a of Latv

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Why clid the Federal Bureau of Investigation tap
the telephone of the late Dr. I\Jartin Luther King
Jr.? The tapping was disclosed, beyond any contradiction, in testimony given on Wednesday in a
Federal District Court. It violated an Act of Con. gress , the Federal Communications Act. It violated the repeated assertion b~' FBI Director J.
Edgar H.oovcr that his agency tapp ed telephones
only in nation2l securit>' cases.
John S. l\lartin, an attorne>' in the U.S. Solicitor
General's office. acknowledged in court that the.
· ci\·il rights leacter had been under FB I electronic
wrvci!li\nce in 1964 and 1965 and that the four
FBI wiretaps made of telephone conversations in
which he participated were illegal. There can be
no doubt -_,;hatever as to the illeplit y of these
wire ta ps. In point of fact, the GoYernment did not
ciiOose to contest their iilegality.
:...,:\lr. Hoo\·er has said many times that his agency
tar-::: no teleµhones without expres, authoi·i.zation
from\ the A.ttorne~· General. Did !'\icl,olas deB.
Katzcn b2ch, a distinguished cha:npi on of civil
rig hts. rtuthor!ze sur\·ei!lanc0. in c!car ~:kd<.tion of

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law, of the counfry's most respefted civil rights
leader?
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l\1r. Hoover has said /nan _
y,·fimes, in. con gres-,ional
hearings and in public statements, that his agency
taps nc telephones k.x{ept in cases affecting the
country's security. Will he assert thilt he believed
the Rev. Dr. ::l!artin Luther King presented a peril
to national security? He has indicated on past
occasions that he takes an elast1c, and sometimes
a \'cry confused. Yicw of national sC'.curity. But
'.llartin Luther King?
It is no lig!1t rnane r to iiavc the law flouted by
the country's foremost inves tigating agency. Contempt for the. law by public agencies and public
officials breeds contempt for the law by the public
itse1£. \Vorse sti1L a contern~1tuousdisregard for
the privacy and the· essential fre>:.domof ..\me::ican
citizens str i kes c!ange;-ously at tbe foundatio::s of
:\merican life. The ..\merican people cannot. afford
to let J. Edgrlr Hoo':er be a la's unto himsel.f, no
matter how valuable his past public service. A .
people car-eles3 of funda rr:en~.1l rights can hardly
be S3id to d-:~er\·e t~1ose righ{5 al 2il.
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An FBI agent 22 years,
chols said hewas supervis\ng
the Atlanta surveiJJ,1.nc.eJJfl{mg,
when. a conversation with Clay
.ind E sl:ridgc was reco :·ued,

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advising I.be civii rights leader
to take care · of himself and
';watch out for them \vhitoys ."
Martin said the three other
admitted s1:mm,1rics were pre. pared by FBI agcllts in _Phoe. nex, Ariz.

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The summnry quoted Clay as

Cassius Clay returned to court
today to hear Fede"f-c,J
Bureau o(
Investigation agelltstestify how
they eavesdrop15ed on conversalions of the Carmer heavyweight
champion with the late Hev. Dr.
Martil) Luther King Jr . and with
Elijah Muhammad, head of the
Black Mtislims.
C. Barn· Pickett, an FBI
agent, testified today that he
recorded the conversations be- i
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to mid-1966. He said the eaves~
dropping was carried out both
by wiretapping and · other devices .
FBI . agent Rob~rt Nichols of
Aflant~. Ga .. testified yesterdav
that 2lectronic surveillance of
King Tas in progress as early as
1964 i!:nd :rn invesLi2:ationof the
Black l\Iusiims began as carly
. as 1958.
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U. S. D:strict Judge Joe Ingra-'
ham admitted into evideEce
summaries of four t aped conver•.
sations afier government law-·
yers acknowledged . the tapes
h2d bet"n recorded illegally. ·
He refu~ed to admit a iifth
summary, on the grc,und disclosure of its content could endanger natiorial securitv . .
Th,, ;aped conn'r~-a,ior,s were
not di3ciosed untiit:he SuDreme
Court received Clav's ao,ie2.l of
a 1967 conviction oi1 a ci1arge of
rt:fiJi,!!!g to W i::Cutted into. lhe
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mise ,among certain journalm e nt to our 'lime. After four
Years of e-avesdr,)pping eight
istic insiders . There
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those who claim to have had
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Why was Dr. King under
of a gathering,
bugged by
surveillance?
No one has
Government
investigators,
said. B;.it it may :be sic:nifiat which
Dr . King and
cant
th at
th~
sno~ping
began at a time ·,,·hen he
friends were present.
criticic zd the FBl fo!· ·as'.:izn It w,13 one of those repu ging ~oulhern age n ts to ;,"i·onant but . enduri:1g stories
t ec-t ·.ch•i! ri!!hts workers' in
tha t cling to controversial
the 3outh. ft is · a lso iro:::c
public figures . The FBI and
ti1at _t!1is, seeming ly gratp.itous ·-Im ·a sion of Dr. Ki:i·::;'s
Jus~ice Deparlmen t steadpersonal Jife · occurred
~t a
fas!.ly denled knov;ing any.fime when many high-ra:ikthing
spec ific about eiccironic
sm··,eillance
of Dr.
hing.
Shoulders
would
shru g . c~·ebrnws would arch
}:nov;ir,g!:,,
fingers
would
point
discreetly in othe,
dirE'ctions . .-\:!cl FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover contented himse!f 1,·ith .attacking the ch·;! rights leader as
"the most notorious liar in

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oi.::. Il emerged in the form
oi sworn testimony
by FBI·
agr:n ts in a Houston
Federal cou;t;oo;n
in t~1c c·<:se
of f0r; :E>r hr..:1,.-:.··:
:eight ~.,:,:>
ir:g t':-::i. :;~~)~0!1 C :1.:-:s!:!:; Cla~: i
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thought . that his phone was
being
t apped
by Governm en t · agents.
1t was the
. 1ime, in other words, when
Robert F. Kennedy was . r\ ttorney
General
of
the
United States.
.After the disclosure
last
week, there was an under. standable
rush to disavow
2esponsibility
for electronic
,pursuit of Dr. King. For-mer
Attorney · General
Ramsey
Clark
denied
autho rizing
·any wiretaps or bugs ?.ga1nst
Dr. King .or Elijah :\Tuhammad ll"hile he headed the Justice De;iartmcnt. His predecessor, ?\'icholas deB. Katzenbach cieclined
to say anything pubiicly.
Diel
Hobert
J{ennect y
know? The FBI"s only i-cco.rdcd comrnent
on rhe :-1.f.fair \vas to re.fer q~c.s tio ::crs
to Hoovc•r's testimon:, 01·cr a
period of :,ears that each
bug was authorized
in writjng ·before insta !L:Hion b.v
tl~e .-\ttorney
Cener21. And
the Justice D,:,;i2,tn:e:1t
lasl
,re ek dc:scTi'::ied Eoo~.'c:- s i.e3timony as ::ae~urate .1n e·.-ery
res;JE•ct.' lnfcre:1::a11y,
the
FBI is sa:cing U1at :'l!r. Kcnnedi
!:new and· appro\·ed.
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"internal
security"
rnatt er!L
. What constitutes
''internal
security ," thi s column askccl
of an FBI spokesman.
•·ft
· h as .to speak :for itself," he ·
replied .
There is a spectacular
ambiguity :i!Jo,it il all.
At torney General John N.
Mitchell now intends to use
the authority
conferred
on
him by Congress last year to
use wiretaps in the wide ,·a .
riety
of cases .permitted
unci e r the new Omnibus ·
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When y ou consider
the
scope of the blatantly illegal
11·iretann:ng
carried out by
Goven;rne11t
agents during
the past fow ~-ears it bog gles
,he mind to consider
how
pcrvasiYe
official
snooping
1njght
(J"eron1e once it •,\·as
j eg itimizcd b:; local courts
at the hc·hcst of local prosecutors.
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the second
ha!{ of 19138. for example.
state oftiria!s
obtni~1ed ! '/4
\\·jretappi::g
v~'arrants , all
hut · se1·e:1 of t he m in :--:cw
York 11:here authorities
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part _ of a " na_tional security" _;
n- hv hethcr a ,riretap authon~at1011 .
vcs llgatwn, !t ~pµarently was directed ~t rmg had eve1 be_en
not ope'.·ated_rn vwlati?n of legal involved m ms discussion \I 1th
re,stnctt0ns.Jn eifectat the time. Kennedy.

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A top official of the FBI has
claimed that official wiretapping
Ori Dr. l\-Iartin Luther King Jr.
:had the adv ance npproval of the
'.late Atty. Gen. Robert F. Ken-

yv.d e A, .• 'I' oIson. ti 1e I)ureau. ., s . \ Row:i;~
intcl'~st Said to Flag
·_neC~l
_ Blasts ·Hoover
:asso·ciate dir ector,' defend ed the Tolson's letter seemed cle3rly
If the · King wiretap was _in'legality of the muchccriticized designed to show that both_as- stalled any time during 1964,
: tapping of King's phone in a pects of legnllty _had beci1 !11et and if it did have approval by
i letter chited i'l':or.day.
by the · FBI. · His letter •.rn~ the attorney general , that could
' The letter was sent to Carl T. prompted by comments by the have come only from Kennedy
Rowan a columnist . for The columnist that Hoover had been or his succ ·cssor, Nicholas deB :
Star. ~ml was intended
an flouting the · la\v by permitti:1g
an s1vcr to an article Rowan the wiret ap on Ki11g's phone. Rocould
not ~e
wmte for l2s( S:,nrJp,v
'~ editi :i:.;, !wan .dir ectly a cc use d Hoc,,·er Gf:
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.;ar !_:;abu~e o.f c.onte111pt fc1t th~:
Hoover for the electronic spylng law."
' Jreached immediately for cpmori King. A copy of the letter
Branding this a "malieious''
•ment- on ~he matter.
i
was sent .to the editor of The and "scu rr .i!ous ''. articl e. Tolscn
Aides d1'Kennedy sugge sie d
Star:
invited Ro:,..'an to give his an-. last night _that, dttring 1964, the
• period afUr the ass assination of
1 . " For your information, " 'fol-jSWer \vide publicity.
; son wrote to the columnist. "the
The .. FBI's new defense of it- his brother , President John -F.
;.wiretap on Martin Luther · King -se lf seemed likely to start a 1,e w Kennedy. the attorn ey general's
Jr , \':as specifically appro ved in!round cif.public dispute over foe: interest in some . of his official ;
. advance in writing by the late i official responsibility for tr!~~u~e affairs flagged.
I
1att orney general of the United! of eiectronic listening de·, ic•~s.
At th e ti,Ee. Kat ien bach. w as; ,
tStates, ?.fr. R ober tf'. Kennedy.'{ ! Three years ago , Hoover a:id Kenned y deputy at the Jus tice·;
':Rob e rt Ken nc-d-,,-. then <i U.S. Departmen t.
·
First Revealed in Houston
IS'?nator from Nei,.,Ycd:. traded
A la ter · attorney general/
· Tolson add ed that the mo11itor-j r:Jolic · char rres that e::ch ocber n-m,ev
Cla•·k has told rcnoct-i:
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criven &?nrova! iO!' · \viret2.·nping :·
_-tl_
ier e~o:·e,_ was_ wi~hin the p:-ovi-· as opposed to direct -_
,ire~ ap, for ! ; n Kins! . . Clark also has saicihel
S!GZJ la,d no1rn Dy tne then Presi- in vestigation.
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teii him ('\'-!
·oent oftheUnitedStates .''
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· ! required H,e FBI
The first public re.vela tipn that
Kennedy Released Le-tier
! erv three months the name s of!
De.onle being monitored elec lro n-i
Ki~,g had been the. ~ubjed of At tha t ~ime'. the lat e senator! lcafly- and that. Ki ng=s name '\Vas (
FBI 1\°iretapping came earlier made uublic · a ·retter to him dat- : never · reDorte d to him .in tha t !
:)his _month in . a iederai court ed . Feb. 17, 1966, irom COU!'tnc:y category.·
·neanng m H~L?stonu
.
. A. Evans, who had been assist- ,
Robert . Nl!:hols ,___ a . £P~?1'.c'l,mt FBI director whiie l\ ennedy
~o Document Included
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· :1gcr.t 1:: ti·1e FBI 01nr~ in Ati:-!n- wr,<: a:-.tonle'.:.rrener.3.L.
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if
the 'wi.:·etappi ng had cont in',·;;hi
Vo-,nbed\' rel1'ed
o~u t·••"c.t
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. ta, , testified
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· ns eo a ce-.·1.cc atcacne, to tnc 1 t· ~ to hein ·him makn .''·" i ued until sh,::rtiy Defore King' s
tei epho nc lii:es at Eing 's .home -e ,'.et, t' , ,. ..,·
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death, it would have been in
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'-a· direct answer· last ni -i~ht. How.
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ever, (he spokesman refe r red to 1
ia statement issued by the de- :_
partmcnt
earlier
this. month
-which had said that Hoover was,
"accurate
in every · respect"!
.,vhen he had repeat eclly toldj
Congress all wiretaps had been i
authorized ., in advance . and in,
writing by the attorney gencralj
:in office at the time the tappingj ' ·
was proposed :· .
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The spokesman thus appeared ,
to be implying that Tol son's lct·ter also was an .accui'ate. description of authorization .

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cases fOr ,i:irJ~·9D authori?.at_[r.,n· · 1'c:;:im ;n -,· at li1e Hou3ton i
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actiOn and reJcr~tl!:~r h!oocly-mindcd people in
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But
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taps,· of course, arc dirlier than
We would li~:e to think we arc a peace-loving people; at ·
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prime
exaniplc
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.the same time we insist on venting _our hostility on any
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·tm Lu.thcr. King, . Jr,
individual or nation that qui::.stions our virtue and the
/ Evidence offerC'CIat the Cassius Clay hearing in Houston
Stlpcriority of OUf ways.
The IVnll Street Journnl (Jnnc 9) t:-tkes issue with the ; indicates that the :taps began as e,arly as 1965 aud were
maintained until Dr. King's death on April 4, 1968. Jt
· commission on sevcr:11points. "So far from being blooclyis dear also that the·raps were maintained after Prcsic.knr
1nindccl," it says cditorialiy, "th,: a\·cragc citizen is appa!Jcd and deeply saddened at the violence he is constantJohnson, on June 30, 1965, ordered an end to \:J!'':.
..~~ps)
except those ordered by the Attorney Gc1,cral in "naly reminded of both :it home and on the distant batt)efic!ds
·· of Vietnam." The violence at home may indeed sadden
tional security" cases. The mind boggles ,-.tthe notion
him, although it probably frightens him more and makes
-that Dr. King, a Baptist minister . (Ph .D., Boston Univer- ·
ihim inclined to Tesort to ._viQlcnccof his own---certainly
sity, D.b., Chicago _Theological Seminary), Nobel .Prize
the enormous sales of guns to individuals indicate as .. , winrier (1964), founder o[ the Southern Christi :111Leadermuch. Bu-t as for Vietirnm, only a small_pa.rt of the Amcri-. .// ship Conference, could have been involved in activitic:;
can publjc is concerned about the' agony thai has been (I that, in the view of j. Edgar B OO\'Cr :ind fornH'r Allor· inflicted on -the Vietcong and- the North Vie.tnamese. ( I ncy General Nicholas dcB. Katz enbach, may have con. Reports from the front that artillery and air strikes have \ \ stitut cd a th real to. the nati0n al sen;rity of · the llnitcd .
killed several lnmdrcd of ihc enemy, at the cost of a few ' Statc.s. ·
American lives, cause no public outcry. One would think
fncrcdulity is enhan~cd by a clc-ar indic ation of \, ·hat it
that only Ati1ericans were human. The Pent:igon counwas that prompted i\fr. Hoov er to request authorization of
tered a recent rise iii the weekly American casualty total
· this particular wire tap. District Juc!;c Jngrnh::im, wh0
. with a statement that half a million of the enemy had
is conducting the CJ;iy hearing s i_n Hou ston, would nm
been killed. Hnlf a million, in a countiy' so small! N0t a
permit FBl agent Robert Nicols to expI::in why Dr. Kin;
n-i'urmur was he:ircl from all those "appalled and sadw-as und er survr-illance, but he did let J,im testify that tht
·de.necl" citize11s The Wall Street louriwl knows about.
survcillance-thilt
is. the particular ~c1rvcillance which
. In · a d1sp:1tchfrom So.igon in The Christian Science
Nicols supervi scd-occurrccl at a time wlien Dr. King ,,.·1-.;
· Monilor (June'+), Eliz:ibeth Pond providc5 sonle figures
attacking trie FBI for assigning Southern r::thc r th:in
on American violence. as applied in Victn?.m with no
Non hem . agents 16 civil rights investigations. Th-~ inresult except the virtt:al min of the southern h'.llf of the
ference is th:H 5h::trp cri ticism of his acrions is rcg:irded ·
~ountry. The caption o[ the story says that there are curby r-·lr. Hoover. ils a threat to n:HionaJ security.
rently 1.3 million refugees' in South Vietnam and the gov- ·
In an cntirdv IC'Qiti m;:itc at tempt to scctH,' ,,n officd
· ernm cnt appropri?ites one-third of: 1 per cent o( the nal
c.xplanatioi1,
th~ Chica go Dniiy News
propo,ind ed :i
tional budget •to hdping them. The policies of the governi
serirs
of
que
stion~
to
the
FBI:
"Why
\\'a,
Dr. King·,
ment of South Vietnam can be controlled bv the ['.overn/
pho:1e
tapped?
Did
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Edgar
Hoover
app
roc.'c?
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ment of the United States; we ha\'i?. proof ·here t-hat ,;.-c
l King consider ed a security risl:?" In e:ich insta,K,' the
not only resort to br_;;e-scale ,,ioknce for phantasmal
:in,wc.r was: "No commr .nt."
·
ends but do not even trouble ourseh-es to re.p,1ir son1C'of
the dnrnnge.
Not merely is tk public entitled to an cxpbn?.tiO'l of
This war has pro duced, according to 1'·1iss Pond .. at
the kind sought hy the Dni!_\'Nr\\'s, but th.:: rn:i:i:.,i~J
J~a<:.t 4 million refugees, 300,000 -physic:illy cli,ablcd,
failure to pro, ·ide it will c.n-c0u ,·::i'" ,hi,::C', nf ;' ::· (::-;-,d.
20/iOO to 50JlC:0 p:·•:)~.:;~u>~'~~
;:·:{·,rf ~}1~:;1 90.000 orp~1:::1s.
Rc·,:·:::ntly the· rc·g~in~~ of th:. Li ni\ ·;:•r~!~y of <...--:.:11/(1:·:1!.1.•,Y:·::;
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charge.s nncl, in doin£ so, d:::m:indc'd th;it th: fil,:-~ 0f th,~
of the J\meric:in Frie:1d, S::-rvicc C,,mrn ittcc, but this rnmfl31 on Dr. King bl' n~::d-~pubk. To tlii,, Lq _:,:c" rc_,i:•
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(Jun::: 5) by placing in the R('cmd m:i:1y p:!fc'; of ,~i:1:::,_';
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I rccei wc l on bcha!( of that
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n1ovcn1.er:t is profo un d reco~·~ ·l milital'i sti(; stain;mv
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nit:ion th :-tt_no 111•iolcncc is the
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deans-.vcr· to the c:r:ucial political'
-ti struction.
I b c li e Ye that unand morn .l que s tion of our
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a nd unconditirn.c-- --thc nred .foi- 1nn.n to
I tional ·love- wi ll. _have the fin:tl
ovc1·con1e · op prc ~f:i~)n n i1cl Yio-' J word. _in realit~•. This is why
lc_J!r·,~ ; 1.:it •!1otii. ~·e:~o:r~ing· to
l'ig:hi.. L1~rnpo1·:
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sl.l.'ong er th an e,·il triun1phc..pt.
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I beli eve thlit evell' a,nid
ant i titctica I cqni::cpts . N C!:!'roes
to cla.v•s moi ta r. ·burs ts and
. of t11e lillitcd States, fol lowwhin .i ri',...· bull ets . th ere 'is st ill
; ing the people of India. have· , hope fo~· a. bri g hter tomori'o w.
d en1on~t r:1tt;d
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ations. can be lifted ft'O_D.L.J_t.,
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· which ma fre,; foe ~ocial trans•
dust of sl\anic to 'i··cign suformatioa.
Sooner or later,
pt;~
't,i'~mg the· children of
a II the peop le of the worldmen .. . .-·
will ha1·e Lo di scover a way to
live to g ct11r r in ·p eace. and
thereby
Vrnn,i'onn this pe1iclrng co s1111c elegy into · it creati ve p.sa lm nf bro therhood.
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man rnu :;t evo lve for ·au hu- . .
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I am a lwa _,,s· mindful of the
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lh e . known iJi!~1ls and the unkn~rwn g-rou nd crc,v.
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y0 •: ·::onor t.h0 dedicaU~d
pilot.;:; of our ::ilruggle
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-th e freedom .movement soared .
i1\ to 01·bj t. :. y;Ju hono1 :, once·
:.g:iin . Chief ( Albert) Lithuli
of South Afr ica. who se ~trug_glrs \\' ith and f or his people ,
•;ire. ~till met with the most
bru tal e:,nress ion of man's in- ·
h uma nil\ ;
man.
Yott honor · the gTmmd crew
without \\:l:OSP. labOt;,,.;:ii'\'h1'l?:~
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WASIIINGTON, Nov/20 - On lhc surface, it may look as if
the current ,:ont:-o,·c:·syLbetwcen .l. 'Edgar Hoover, director of·
tlw FB!, and ti1e Hcv. i\lartin Luther Kili"gJr., head of _a lci!ciing·
Ne-gm 01.-f!ilnization,merely concerns a qucstion·ofvcracity· ahout
fncidcnts in ,\lhany, Ga. , in con·
ncction with the _lwndling of such complaints .· Mr. - Hoover's
compl~ints by _Negroes and reply ,vas that the . miijori ly·_of_
civil rights workers in that city. FBI . agents in th e - South are
But tile iS'.ilW goes deeper. Ir
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involves the effort of org,mizcct North erners, and lhat four of the
groups · l.o pressure government- five agents in Alb.any_were born
nl agrneic:; _into taking action lo in the Noi·lh. .
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meci protests · -ba:;cd. upon pasTill: 1:•tn director conceded
s ion and emotiona l feelings , th at the r e- have ·been difficulti es
rather than on the rn!cs of l,,w with local authorities , some ·of
: which re.quii-e substantial
evi- whom , due to their .J)r('judiccs,
i dencc bdore
arrests can be arc lax in la11
; enforceh1cn t in. mndc .
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valving viol,itions of civil rights.
But the F'l31 has no authority
The effort to C(lll\'crt the FBI ol'er the State and local -policc,into a political agency is nol and . has to depend on .their ,,01new. Jt has been untary ·co--0peration. In cases
Independent ·evident in\, t"he \\·here the ioc;;! police cannot he
FBI Urged
a~ ti dlit;,.
oi relied upon , the FBI may inotner pres sure crease its forces. But this docs
groups from time to time. Soon·.
not · mean that it can alwavs
er or later, the FBI will ha;;e to gather enough evidenctdo bring
be made an agency sep 91:2tc. a case acrainst all oersons sus ·from the Department of .Justice, pected of violating civil rights . . ___
unl':'ss the department its·clf beSomewhat ihe same· dilemma--····~, come s an ind~pendcnt agency. confronts the FHl in co:-rnection
I FiJr when it comes lo the on- with the ineasures ihi::t might
erations of the law, · the citizer.s ha\'e heen tnl-:c·nto protect tile · expect enforcement to . be fair ·1ate Presi.dcnt Kennedy agains t
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the invesUgation of ihc 1r:urdcr Cornn1issfon. Fo r. as ~.!r. Hoover
of three ci'"viltights workers in to!d his pre~s •Corifercncc this .
~lississippi a rc~wmonth.,; ago. week. i! i.s i;npo.ssibi~ to take
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high....officiZiis·. h:::s\:-c::'~-t:t:•j safe~~- of the President :• when
in that case ('ertain ini0rniation 1-he: chief execl:tivc ::1akes a·
of an i11criminati.,a natur-'P T)•i~ pt:hEc a pr:,:;iarance. 0.~peciaUy
the "m~king. -~f ,;;:;-~::ts h~; · h-~~;· when · he rides down cit~· ~tre-ets
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