Posted on 09/09/2011 9:23:25 AM PDT by george76
Speaking in the months after her husband's assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy was so upset with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that she told a friend and interviewer that she could barely look at images of him.
"I just can't see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man's terrible," Mrs. Kennedy said, as part of an oral history series of interviews released this month.
The widowed first lady soured on King as a result of secret wiretaps arranged by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover had told President Kennedy that King tried to arrange a sex party while in town for the March on Washington, and told Robert Kennedy that King had made derogatory comments during the president's funeral, Mrs. Kennedy recalled.
But as for what was actually said by King and his circle, history remains uncertain. The original surveillance tapes involving King have never been released publicly, and are under seal by court order until 2027.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Typical white woman. lol
She was right.
As long as libs are so quick to “deconstruct” white myths, I’m surprised they’re not in an equal hurry to debunk the mythos around their own heros ...
NOT!
You know darn well that they will be eaten by the dog.
I’m pretty sure those tapes were sealed because King said that Marigolds were his favorite flower.
... for all the MLK worshipers on this board!
And he was also a d@mn communist!
(I’ve had posts pulled for saying that.)
They were sealed because there's a bunch of them with him having orgies with White hookers and then smacking them around afterwards.
Plus there's the real doozy of the night where he says "I'm not a Negro tonight" and "I'm f****** for God".
Can't let the truth be known about St. Marchin' Lootin' King.
Didn't even Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin get in on the myth bandwagon that is MLK?
too bad Jackie O didn’t mind her own backyard back in Jack’s day. That was okay for him though. For presidents, it’s just about sex.
King was a serial palagiarist too - his graduate thesis is stolen, word for word, long passage after passage - his I have a dream speach was stolen, almost word for word (ironically, from the opening invocation at the 52 [?] Republican convention), given by a black preacher. King was as big a phony/fraud as the empty suit 97 lb weakling in the White House.
“his I have a dream speach was stolen, almost word for word (ironically, from the opening invocation at the 52 [?] Republican convention),”
52 [?]
Do your research first before lazy BS “question marks”.
I read this story on Drudge. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Jacqueline_Kennedy/jacqueline-kennedys-feelings-martin-luther-king-jr-revealed/story?id=14478321
Caroline Kennedy said her mother’s comments about King are evidence of the “poisonous” activities Hoover was engaged in, as he ruled the FBI as his private fiefdom.
She said the comments didn’t reflect her mother’s true feelings about King, pointing out that she was proud to attend his funeral in 1968.
“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 told ABC’s Diane Sawyer.
“It shows you the poisonous … activities of J. Edgar Hoover, and the idea that this is going on at the highest levels of government is really twisted,” Caroline Kennedy said.
“If you asked her what she thought of Martin Luther King overall — I mean she admired him tremendously,” she added.
Why am I not surprized?
Maybe someone more expert than I can elaborate but I have heard old magnetic tapes degrade over time. One way to keep them is to play them occasionally but if left in storage never being played is not good for them.
No offense, but, I have a demanding job, and posting here is for relaxation. Also, I was right about the date. Anyway, I don’t see what’s the big deal.
Of course! Jackie always referred to the people she admired as "terrible".
Caroline Kennedy is a prime example of what happens when you try to educate someone beyond the capacity of their brain.
3) COMMUNIST BACKGROUND AND CONTACTS: It appears that King established an early liaison with the American Communist Party and sought to create civil unrest in support of the revolution. His own biographer, David J. Garrow admitted that king once privately “described himself as a Marxist.” King constantly surrounded himself with Communists, hired them, and even went to great lengths to keep them on through secret relationships. King’s personal secretary in the 1950s was communist and homosexual Bayard Rustin. According to Sen. Jesse Helms, “King was repeatedly warned about his associations with known Communists by friendly elements in the Kennedy Administration and the Department of Justice [DOJ] (including strong and explicit warning from President Kennedy himself). King took perfunctory and deceptive measures to separate himself from the Communists [Stanley David Levison and Hunter Pitts O’Dell ] against whom he was warned. He continued to have close and secret contacts with at least some of them after being informed and warned of their background, and he violated a commitment to sever his relationships with identified Communists.”
4) IMMORAL AND ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR: Dr. King had an ample reputation as a philanderer and abuser of women of ill repute. The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover had run surveillance on King and his entourage for years attempting to gather data on his Communist connections. While the Bureau did surveill King’s attendance at Communist meetings, but most of the surveillance records show an extreme preoccupation after hours with illicit sex. In deference to King’s usefulness in promoting a national holiday for civil rights, US Federal judge John Lewis Smith, Jr. ordered all the FBI records sealed up in the National Archives for 50 years (till 2027). When I was Executive Editor of Conservative Digest, I called retired Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray and asked him what was in the evidence locked away. His answer surprised me. He said there were approximately 15 file cabinets of evidence on King—14 of them were full of recordings and transcripts of his illicit relationships with prostitutes. Only one file cabinet contained evidence of his Communist relationships.
http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/MLK.shtml
No, he wasnt.
There were certainly communists around him, but he wasnt one. Given the nature of his fight, liberals were going to support him, and that would naturally include some on the hard left ie communists.
‘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
And lets be honest, America treated blacks like shi* for a century and a half, are you really surprised then that some black Americans saw Communism as a solution to their ills?.
‘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
Mrs Kennedy reserved her fiercest criticism for Dr King. She said her brother-in-law, US attorney general Robert Kennedy, had told her Dr King was drunk at JFK’s funeral and mocked Cardinal Richard Cushing’s Mass.
She said: “He made fun of Cardinal Cushing and [Robert] said that he was drunk at it. I can’t see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, that man’s terrible.”
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