{"id":1451149,"date":"2024-01-17T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1451149"},"modified":"2024-01-17T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T09:40:00","slug":"rfk-jr-says-there-was-good-reason-for-his-father-to-authorize-fbi-wiretaps-of-martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/rfk-jr-says-there-was-good-reason-for-his-father-to-authorize-fbi-wiretaps-of-martin-luther-king-jr\/1451149\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. Says “There Was Good Reason” For His Father To Authorize FBI Wiretaps Of Martin Luther King Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

RFK Jr. Says “There Was Good Reason” For His Father To Authorize FBI Wiretaps Of Martin Luther King Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jeff Louderbeck via The Epoch Times,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

While in Atlanta for a voter rally on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talked about his family\u2019s relationship with the civil rights leader and said that \u201cthere was good reason\u201d for his father, Robert F. Kennedy, to authorize FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover\u2019s to wiretap Dr. King<\/strong> when John F. Kennedy was president.<\/p>\n

Before delivering a speech at the event, where he collected signatures to get on the Georgia presidential general election ballot, Mr. Kennedy told Politico that his father, who was attorney general, granted permission for Mr. Hoover to electronically monitor Dr. King\u2019s conversations \u201cbecause J. Edgar Hoover was out to destroy Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement <\/strong>and Hoover said to them that Martin Luther King\u2019s chief was a communist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father gave permission to Hoover to wiretap them so he could prove that his suspicions about King were either right or wrong. I think, politically, they had to do it,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Mr. Kennedy said.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Kennedy noted that his father and his uncle knew that Mr. Hoover was \u201ca racist\u201d and \u201cleft no doubt where he stood on those issues\u201d regarding civil rights organizations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If President Kennedy had been elected to a second term, he would have fired Mr. Hoover, the 2024 independent presidential candidate said, adding that be believes his uncle alerted Dr. King of Mr. Hoover\u2019s wiretaps in a private conversation.<\/p>\n

President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.<\/p>\n

Dr. King, who was born and raised in Atlanta, was shot and killed by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tenn. on April 4, 1968.<\/p>\n

After speaking at a campaign event in Los Angeles during his bid to secure the Democrat Party\u2019s presidential nomination, Robert F. Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968. He died the next day.<\/p>\n

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mr. Kennedy posted a video on X, formerly Twitter, sharing stories about the relationship between his father and Dr. King.<\/p>\n

In 1967, Dr. King delivered a speech \u201cin which he came out against the Vietnam War,\u201d Mr. Kennedy said in the video.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was an unpopular stance among other civil rights leaders who thought Dr. King should focus solely on the civil rights movement, Mr. Kennedy explained.<\/p>\n

Dr. King noted that black soldiers represented \u201chalf of the paratrooper units in Vietnam\u201d and black soldiers were dying for freedoms in Vietnam that they did not have in their own country,\u201d Mr. Kennedy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe also said that the poverty program which Lyndon Johnson and my uncle had launched was being impoverished itself because of the cause of the Vietnam War.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes the hand of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Civil Rights Act while officials look on in Washington on July 2, 1964. (Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n

A year after delivering that address, Dr. King was murdered, and Mr. Kennedy said his father broke the news to a crowd in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father was running against the Vietnam War at that time and was going into a ghetto in Indianapolis, Indiana. The sheriff warned him that he shouldn\u2019t go because people didn\u2019t know that Martin Luther King Jr. was dead, and the sheriff and the local police believed they would lose control of the city when the black population learned about his death,\u201d<\/strong> Mr. Kennedy said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert F. Kennedy ignored the sheriff\u2019s warning and climbed on a flatbed truck to deliver an impromptu speech that his son calls one of the best addresses he had delivered.<\/p>\n

After telling the audience that Dr. King was shot and killed, Mr. Kennedy \u201cdid something that he never had done before, which is he talked publicly about his brother\u2019s death.,\u201d his son said in the video.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe reminded the crowd that his brother was killed by white men as well. And he called on the crowd to do something that was counterintuitive, which was to react peacefully. Quoting the Greek poet Aeschylus, he said that our job now as Americans was to \u201ctame the savageness of men and make gentle the life of this world.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

More than 100 cities were ravaged by riots that night, but not Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the only major city that avoided rioting that night. People have attributed that to my dad\u2019s speech,\u201d <\/strong>Mr. Kennedy said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my dad died in 1968, two months later, after Dr. King, Coretta King was in the hospital with me and my siblings, [in] Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. And my father died. And then she was on the airplane with us, which took my father\u2019s casket back to New York, and she was on the train with us when we brought his body on a seven-and-a-half-hour train ride with two and a half million people on the track to Washington DC.<\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

At the Atlanta voter rally on Jan. 14, Mr. Kennedy was joined by Angela Stanton-King, the goddaughter of Alveda King, who is Dr. King\u2019s niece.<\/p>\n

Ms. Stanton-King, who works for Mr. Kennedy\u2019s campaign, was pardoned by President Donald Trump after a conviction in 2006 for conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with a luxury car theft operation. <\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2020, she registered as a Republican and unsuccessfully ran against civil rights leader and incumbent Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 01\/16\/2024 – 23:40<\/span><\/p>\n

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