The Uncensored FBI Letter to MLK Found Hidden in the National Archives
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The mob had all that shyt even had sex tapes of JFK in Cuba before he became president and turn his back on them. The 50s and 60s was a wild Fukkin time man so much evil doing and wrongness.
I understand this but was the mafia thing ever shown?
The tone of the letter you can tell Hoover was threatened by King's actions. All that talk about being a "beast", "evil" etc, he is basically talking about himself. I mean ol'boy was a flaming crossdresser, that shyt is fukken weird today, so can you imagine what it looked like at that time?
Of course King cheated, but at that time being with a prostitute was the lowest of the low, different standards back then.
Of course King cheated, but at that time being with a prostitute was the lowest of the low, different standards back then.
Diondon
Thanks to the lawyers uh, I marbled the foyer
Hoover was a buttplugger though 
Cac piece of shyt
Cac piece of shyt
Hell no probably got taken back once JFK became president. He wage a war on their asses after they rig the election for him.
I think those ships have sailed breh. I don't think Hoover was ever praised like that, especially not on a Columbus level.
Mr Uncle Leroy
All Star
unfukkingbelieveable...
In the fall of 1964, the New York Herald Tribune ran a story with the headline, "FBI Chief Calls Martin Luther King 'The Most Notorious Liar in Country.'" J. Edgar Hoover, then the director of the FBI, had found himself on the defense after King, perhaps the most prominent civil rights activist of the 1950s and 60s, accused the bureau of not enforcing civil rights law and using Jim Crow-era tactics to suppress blacks. Hoover's real reasoning for labeling King a "notorious liar," however, was based on information he and few others were privy to: the details of King's sex life.
Despite knowledge among King's inner circle, he had never been publicly known as a lothario—but Hoover planned to out him, with hopes of soiling his reputation and derailing the civil rights movement. The Times Magazine recently published the uncensored letter by Hoover to King. In it, Hoover threatens to release news of King's extramarital affairs, information which he ascertained through FBI wiretaps in King's home, office, and various hotel rooms.
The letter—later confirmed by the Senate to be the work of Hoover despite his intended authorial misdirection—has long been proof of Hoover's malicious crusade against the celebrated activist. Portions detailing King's sex life were previously redacted—until earlier this summer, when Yale historian Beverly Gage found a copy "tucked away in a reprocessed set of [Hoover's] official and confidential files at the National Archives."
"Lend your sexually psychotic ear to the enclosure." Hoover writes. "You will find yourself in all your dirt, filth, evil and moronic talk exposed on the record for all time."
But Hoover didn't stop there. The final paragraph hints at his attempts to get King to commit suicide. "King, there is only one thing left for you to do," he writes. "You know what it is... There is but one way out for you. You better take it..."
Ultimately, Hoover's threats proved weak, and King's legacy would remain intact. Gage writes in the Times:
Luckily, in 1964 the media were far more cautious. One oddity of Hoover's campaign against King is that it mostly flopped, and the F.B.I. never succeeded in seriously damaging King's public image. Half a century later, we look upon King as a model of moral courage and human dignity. Hoover, by contrast, has become almost universally reviled. In this context, perhaps the most surprising aspect of their story is not what the F.B.I. attempted, but what it failed to do.
Below, via the National Archives, the letter in its entirety.
Via: http://gawker.com/the-uncensored-fbi-letter-to-mlk-found-hidden-in-the-na-1657593062
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html?_r=0
if history is not, repeating itself...
But Hoover was gay,i'm mad confused.Maybe he meant something worse than gay i don't know.Why he keep calling him a beast though?
Remember, being gay in those times was something on a satanical level. He lived with his moms until his 40's, wasn't married and, if he did, was with his deputy director who also lived a similar life.
Hoover was gay. He just couldn't come out the closet at that time.
My gut instinct tells me Hoover was a flaming fakkit and MLK was a womanizer.. a lot of things in the past that remain "mysterious" would of been brought to life in this day and age with social media, lets keep it real
all rumors we can debate til even we are dead, but where theres smoke, theres fire.. Hoover aint the 1st person to say MLK was a womanizer/cheater..
Once everyone realizes every race (even my own Native Americans) has public figures that are just that, public figures, has dirt on them, the more we can move forward instead of focusing on the past
shyt just recently as a month ago we had the President of the Navajo tribe sitting with bytch ass Dan Snyder in a box suite at a red skins game, this dumbass couldnt even conceal the check in his pocket of his shirtBut to the public its like
"see the native americans do support the Red Skins
me personally? I could give a fukk less bout Hoover
I mean just to put things in perspective im native american and italian and I aint even know about the Moors till I was in my mid 20s...
The schools out here aint tryna teach real knowledge and history, only certain parts, so fukk em for that
dont get it twisted, these cacs like yall like to call em love to never bring up what they did to my peoples past either
fukk em
I grew up on the Navajo reservation, was mostly taught by white teachers but even from my native teachers I barely heard a peep about the real history of this country. They still teach that bullshyt Thanksgiving story in the schools there now. Sad shyt.
I use to despise MLK due to the media always shyttin on Brother Malcolm. Readin that letter I got chills n he didnt bacc dwn n history pisses on Hoover. 
It would be nice but like another poster said, cowards rather be content n stfu.
It would be nice but like another poster said, cowards rather be content n stfu.
Being gay back then meant that you were gonna die and the people that murdered you could get away with that shyt. Hoover was a punk in every sense of the word.