Posted on 09/09/2011 7:43:03 AM PDT by beaversmom
Jacqueline Kennedy loathed civil rights icon Martin Luther King, saying on newly released tape recordings that she couldn’t look at a picture of him “without thinking…that man’s terrible.”
Kennedy also called King a “phony” and “tricky” during hours of chatty interviews with the historian Arthur Schlesinger that he tape recorded. The never-before-revealed interviews took place in 1963, shortly after Kennedy had been assassinated.
The former First Lady charged on the tapes that King had made derogatory remarks about her husband’s funeral and the Cardinal who celebrated Mass at the event, according to a report on the tapes by the Associated Press.
“He made fun of Cardinal Cushing and said that he was drunk at it [the funeral],” Kennedy said. “And things about they almost dropped the coffin. I just can’t see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man’s terrible,” Kennedy said in a newly-released book featuring transcripts of the Kennedy tapes.
According to ABC, which has obtained the audio tapes and is hosting a two-hour Jackie Kennedy special on Sept. 13, the former first lady said King had arranged for an “orgy in the hotel” while in town for the March on Washington in August 1963.
Kennedy said that her husband, President John F. Kennedy, had urged her not to be judgmental about it.
“If you asked her what she thought of Martin Luther King overall… she admired him tremendously,” Caroline Kennedy told ABC’s Diane Sawyer.
“Obviously J. Edgar Hoover had passed on something that Martin Luther King said about my father’s funeral, to Uncle Bobby and to Mommy. And obviously, she was upset about that,” Caroline Kennedy added. “It shows you the poisonous … activities of J. Edgar Hoover.”
In the tapes, Jacqueline Kennedy also says that the president was anxious to dump FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover.
And the former first lady said her husband openly ridiculed the notion of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson succeeding him as president.
“Jack said it to me sometimes. He said, `Oh, God, can you ever imagine what would happen to the country if Lyndon were president?’” she said, according to the AP. “And Bobby told me that he’d had some discussions with him …do something to name someone else in 1968.”
Johnson became president after JFK’s assassination and was elected to a full term in 1964. He decided not to seek re-election in 1968.
The Daily Mail reported last month that she believed that Vice President Johnson was behind her husband’s assassination. ABC contended then that the Daily Mail’s report was inaccurate.
I’m not sure she liked anyone....stuck in a loveless marriage, aloof....and that voice...
According to ABC, which has obtained the audio tapes and is hosting a two-hour Jackie Kennedy special on Sept. 13, the former first lady said King had arranged for an “orgy in the hotel” while in town for the March on Washington in August 1963.
Kennedy said that her husband, President John F. Kennedy, had urged her not to be judgmental about it.
Exactly. And more confirmation about “The hypocrite preacher man”
Do you think that voice was put on? Did she sound like that in later years?
King, Jr. was a Republican.
Yea, blame it on J Edgar.
If you read further you will find it was all J.Edgar Hoovers fault. /s
The old “blame it on the tranny” defense. Works every time
I don’t get why Politico is reporting this as new stuff. Years ago Ralph Abernathy wrote about King’s nasty jokes all during the Kennedy funeral. We also know that Hoover arranged for RFK to find out exactly what King said. We also know that the Rev. was an adulterer. One of his women even wrote a book about their affair. No-one could call her a liar so most people simply ignored the book.
Pre-Bush and Palin being known quantities so it makes sense.
LOL. God Forbid either of the Liberal Saints are at fault for their own actions. It was either Hoover or Nixon who somehow made them do it.
I only heard her a couple of times....it sounded like a scatchy record.
There is always a motive and I wonder why they would report something like this? Two big icons being smeared here. A Kennedy and MLK.
I'm suspicious.
I am old enough to remember MLK, and I seem to remember a lot of him having marxist and communist connections. Wish the MSM would research that angle, and report that.
#3-—”now I don’t care who ya are, that’s funny raht there....”
Any normal American alive at that time loathed King. Pure media fraud. He has been pushed down our throats so that some may have a “hero.”
Ahhhhhh, I understand.
Ms. Kennedy admired King tremendously. That thing she said about him being ‘terrble’ was J. Edgar Hoover’s fault...
;-)
...and they did.
Whatever, had he enough money Jackie would have married him.
I wonder.
Was he talking about the orgy or that fact that he attended it?
It was no different back then than now lots of politicians were crooks..MLK was no more than another Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, the Flem Flam man..anyone can become a hero as long as the idea is planted..and that is what MLK did he and his followers made him a hero..He was a womanizer..
JFK was a horrible president who has been idolized since his murder.
I suspect he wouldn’t even have been reelected had he not been assainated.
“she couldn’t look at a picture of him “without thinking…that man’s terrible.”
Hm. I feel exactly the same way about Obmam.
Well, I’m glad she said it to somebody, so that now, even though this is hardly breaking news, it still enters the record——it’s just further proof that none of these people really liked or respected one another, not the appointments, the next-in-lines, the carefully and cynically-chosen running mates, the political antagonists.
Even in this most openly divisive political atmosphere of my lifetime, the MSM still promotes a bogus “civility”, which almost suggests that we should return to the days when the political elites ‘merely’ engaged in gossip and mockery behind each other’s backs. It all fits hand-in-glove with the overall objective of rolling over for Obama’s agenda.
Caroline has a book coming out regarding these interviews.
Isn’t it interesting that Caroline is so vested in revisionist history; even to the detriment of her Mother’s memory.
Kennedy also called King a “phony” and “tricky” during hours of chatty interviews with the historian Arthur Schlesinger
After a coat of shellac
“If you asked her what she thought of Martin Luther King overall… she admired him tremendously,” Caroline Kennedy told ABC’s Diane Sawyer.
It’s also evident that she inherited the Kennedy family’s penchant for telling baldfaced lies without even breaking a sweat...
Jackie would know: MLK Jr. had the same personal morals as her husband. She’s therefore right, he was a phony.
I thought I'd die laughing. I lived in DC at the time. Everyone knew JFK was a dog except her.
Uncle Teddy must have spent some quality time with this one.
Maybe JFK just gave MLK a few phone numbers and let it go at that.
Good for her.
King worship here is so silly and uninformed
and some even like X...crazier still
man, academia sure got to the children
I guess the liberal cause is more important than basic respect for ones dead mother.
A former boss of mine, now deceased, was in the national guard protecting the marchers on the march from Selma to Montgomery. He told me and others that every evening, when the marchers were camping, a car load of white hookers came screaming into the camp for King and the march leadership. I was told this probably 20 years after King's death. Point is, Jackie's assertion is not inconsistent from an account of one eyewitness that I knew.
I’m betting they’re going to sell some of Jackie’s things. You know how greed works!!
Jacqueline Kennedy also says that the president was anxious to dump FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover.
No kidding Hoover knew all of the Kennedy mob ties.
Hoover also knew how much of a fake MLK was.
I never saw King as anything but an opportunist.
I thought her stuff was already sold/auctioned off.
Get ready for the smears of Jackie indeed the dems and msm needs the pity for MLK to keep their scam (elections) going and add in the white guilt mob and it makes it easy to scrub history.
‘Allegations of Communist connections
J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for years had been suspicious about potential influence of communists in social movements such as labor unions and civil rights.[152] Hoover directed the FBI to track King in 1957, and the SCLC as it was established (it did not have a full-time executive director until 1960);[46] its investigations were largely superficial until 1962, when it learned that one of King’s most trusted advisers was New York City lawyer Stanley Levison. The FBI found Levison had been involved with the Communist Party USA.[153]: 233 The FBI had observed his alienation from the Party leadership, but it feared he had taken a low profile in order to work as an “agent of influence” in order to manipulate King, a view it continued to hold despite its own reports in 1963 that Levison had left the Party.[153]:71–3 Another King lieutenant, Hunter Pitts O’Dell, was also linked to the Communist Party by sworn testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).[154]
However, by 1976 the FBI had acknowledged that it had not obtained any evidence that King himself or the SCLC were actually involved with any communist organizations.[155]’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#FBI_and_wiretapping
‘In any event, the FBI has stated that at no time did it have any evidence that Dr. King himself was a communist or connected with the Communist Party. Dr. King repeatedly criticized Marxist philosophies in his writing and speeches. The present Deputy Associate Director of the FBI’s Domestic Intelligence Division, when asked by the Committee if the FBI ever concluded that Dr. King was a communist, testified, “No, sir, we did not.” ‘
http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/churchfinalreportIIIb.htm
Yes, he was a flawed man. Many great men are.
Does that make what he was fighting for invalid?.
No.
BTW, he was a Republican.
You may have disliked him, but many Americans, black and white, admired him and supported what he was fighting for.
To say ‘any normal American loathed him’ is ridiculous. Even suspect to be honest.
For all his flaws, he was no Sharpton or Jesse.
For all his flaws, he was still far superior to those two, who really are the worst and lowest type of racebaiter.
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