Selasa, 09 Januari 2018

Encounter: J. Edgar Hoover Lectures Martin Luther King

When Martin Luther King requested a meeting with J. Edgar Hoover in 1964, the FBI director’s first instinct was to refuse. His reason was simple: He detested King. “I held him in complete contempt,” Hoover later told Time magazine. “First I felt I shouldn’t see him, but then I thought he might become a martyr …

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