We know the FBI is a highly bureaucratic and political organization
Given their behavior from 2016 onwards with regards to Trump, we can see the corruption they are capable of
I would treat all FBI-originated, salacious allegations against MLK as complete bullshit until proven otherwise by non FBI sources
“Garrow is confident the information is accurate.”
I believe it to be true...I heard about it contemporaneously from FBI and DEA agents with whom I worked at the time.
David Garrow has no affiliation with the FBI, he’s a highly esteemed MLK author and life-long historian of civil rights.
It makes no sense that FBI agents would falsify summary records that can be easily proven or disproven from the tapes. One which was sent to King, himself. The FBI mailed King one of his orgy tapes in 1967.
What was the legal basis for taping MLK? I know the they thought he was a communist, but even in the 60s that shouldn’t have been enough. If there were allegations of rape they should have been handled by local LEO.
Just think if we could have taped and followed Hoover.
I'm not sure how I ended up at the same table, but suppose it was because I was relatively young and relatively white and something the event organizers wanted.
Abernathy was Dr. King's closest friend and succeeded him as president of the SCLC. He gave a good speech but even better tidbits to his dining companions. Abernathy clearly loved and respected King as the key civil rights leader of the area.
But he was just as clear that King had an itch to be laid regularly and often. Scores of women would come to his room when he was on the road, which was most of the time in the months leading up to his death.
The main problem of King's companions wasn't finding him women willing to copulate with him, but screening them out to a manageable number like the one to three per night which he could realistically handle. Abernathy always feared his assassin would be an angry husband or boyfriend and not some nobody like James Earl Ray. He wasn't even sure Ray really did it.