This was one year shy of the arrival of the infamous letter. Tragically, King was assassinated four years later in April 1968 by a lone gunman, James Earl Ray. Documentary Exposes How The FBI Tried To Destroy MLK With - NPR Small-time criminal Ray was caught trying to board a plane at London Heathrow on a fake Canadian passport. She told an FBI interviewer it was "the worst orgy I've ever gone through," The Times wrote. EXCLUSIVE Home win! On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous Ive Been to the Mountaintop speech in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2016 the US Treasury Secretary announced that images from the iconic I Have A Dream speech would be among several to feature on the back of American bank notes from 2020. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. On why Hoover wanted recordings of King's infidelity. its huge resources at destroying their families. FBI Sent Martin Luther King Orgy Tapes and "Suicide Letter - Insider The FBI was obsessed with Martin Luther King Jr. from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. David Garrow's biography of King earned him a Pulitzer Prize. By Gillian Brockell May 30, 2019 at 12:58 p.m. EDT The Rev. The intelligence service carried out surveillance on a number of civil rights figures and suspected communists and they had an interest in smearing their reputation. NOW WATCH: The FBI agent who helped recover $300 million worth of stolen art explains what Hollywood gets wrong about art heists, article by the King biographer David Garrow set to be released on Thursday. The efforts to neutralize Martin Luther King as an effective leader of the civil rights movement came at a precipitous moment for the man. But some summaries and related material were included among intelligence documents covered by the. Pregnant Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice are joined by their Father dies eight days after getting stuck in indoor cave at tourist attraction: Tragedy at climbing wall as Dutch police arrest 'Boris Johnson' for drink-driving incident: Suspect had fake driver's licence with PM's Charles' Gladiator!

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