From a scientist who documents the final words of parrots to what its like to. When wiretaps revealed that King was having extramarital affairs, the FBI shifted their focus to uncover all evidence of his infidelity by bugging and taping him in his hotel rooms and by paying informants to spy on him. You never quite know where WireTap will take you. The FBI campaign against King began with wiretaps, but quickly ballooned. They are also young enough to serve for decades to come. Ketanji Brown Jackson, Leondra Kruger, and Michelle Childs are all highly-qualified to serve on the Supreme Court. It shows the government's extensive targeting of King and his associates in the 1960s. What To Know About Biden's Supreme Court Front-Runners. Pollard's documentary is based on newly declassified files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, along with restored archival footage. Edgar Hoover was obsessed with destroying," Pollard says. "The first fear that had was that King was going to align himself with the Communist Party, which. Film director Sam Pollard chronicles those efforts in the new documentary, MLK/FBI. was a man who had a "tremendous amount of burdens he had to deal with, both politically, socially and personally," says MLK/FBI director Sam Pollard.įrom the March on Washington in 1963 up until his assassination in 1968, the FBI engaged in an intense campaign to discredit Martin Luther King Jr.
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