55 years ago, the FBI tried to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr with a 'suicide' letter. This week, newly discovered documents finally explain the sordid origin of the plan.
https://www.insider.com/fbi-martin-luther-king-report-tapes-orgies-suicide-2019-5I saw this posted as a reminder of sorts. If they were doing this 55 years ago, what are they doing now?
An explosive report on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., sourced from obscure US government records, potentially solves a 55-year-old mystery: Why did the FBI send a letter telling King "there is but one way out for you," which King assumed meant he should kill himself, sometime around 1964?
The answer, according to Pulitzer-winning biographer of King, David J. Garrow, is that the FBI had spent years collecting evidence of King's sexual behaviour, and agents believed that what they had gathered was enough to shame him into leaving the national stage.
