He's been dead for 50 years now...how is this news today?
It has never been news, leaked spying on an American citizen was known early on about MLK.
Makes one wonder why the AJC would publish this old information today...MLK did and does more for civil rights today even with feet of clay.
J Edgar and LBJ knew all about The Hypocrite Preacher Man
I agree with you. I have learned to be skeptical of the press, a story based on secret documents that can't be verified needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
It’s not just ‘today’ and it may get worse every 4-6 months as the JFK files are released. On the expiration date of JFK’s files, articles about King began popping up saying much of the same things. 2011, 2013, 2017 & 2018. Every time a new batch is opened there’s some MLK files. These files are subject to FOIA requests. The last batch had 54,000 links and some with attachments up to 500 pages. And Jackie O discussed King’s ‘ disgusting activities’ during an interview with Schlesinger in 1964
There is a legitimate reason why so many in Congress, fought against the MLK holiday. Most of them knew about this stuff. I reckon they figured by burying King’s files among the JFK assassination files, no one would see them for a very long time. Basically, let someone deal with it, 50 years later. The King family went before a judge and had the tapes seal extended until 2027. Hoover had sent Corretta one of the worst ones, several years before.
Unfortunately for King, the sexual escapades that were recorded in various cities are confirmed by his endless phone chatter where he discussed what had transpired the nights before. He would phone to invite new men and women to join in the games. So there’s lots of names, phone numbers and hotel rooms which collaborate everything. They also have a few detailed interviews from other participants.
And there’s Abernathy, the CR leader who was with King most the time and continued the CR movement after his demise, In 1989, Rev. Ralph Abernathy wrote his biography and included the night King died. He discussed the different women with King the night that he was murdered, included a physical altercation with the final woman with King.
MLK Day: In the fall of 1983, then-Governor Meldrim Thompson of New Hampshire wrote to President Ronald Reagan, urging him to veto any bill creating a national holiday for King. Reagan responded, “I have the reservations you have, but here the perception of too many people is based on an image, not reality. Indeed, to them, the perception is reality.”
Surely everyone in DC knew, but the general public had no clue.