'Politically... they had to do it!' RFK Jr DEFENDS his dad and JFK's spying on and wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr during the civil rights movement - a day before the US celebrates MLK Day

Daily Mail ^ | 1/14/24 | Alex Hammer

[MinorityRepublican]

Randolph Jefferson

There's no way that we'll know if it was Thomas. Only that it was one of the Jeffersons. Unless we're able to discover more evidence somehow. But it isn't too far-fetched that Thomas did it himself. Most people are flawed humans, after all.

[Reily]

Agree!

[MinorityRepublican]

The FBI needs to justify its existence and growth—and when they don’t have real national security threats fake ones work just as well.

Back then it was the Civil Rights Movement. Today it's MAGA Republicans.

[cowboyusa]

Read Fredrick Douglas’s defence of and praise of the Decleration and Constitution.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I see you are well-read. Who do you believe to be the most even-handed historians these days?

[cgbg]

Thanks for the kind words.

I am not sure that even-handed historians really exist—everybody, even folks I respect, seem to have an agenda or multiple agendas.

Probably the best book on the FBI during that period imho:

https://www.amazon.com/Official-Confidential-Secret-Edgar-Hoover/dp/0399138005

[Fester Chugabrew]

Somewhere in my family archives is a letter from J. Edgar Hoover to my Dad. It was concerning the increasing dangers of communist infiltration.