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...most devastating shell of the barrage was delivered by J. Edgar Hoover. In 1964, just before King left for Oslo to accept the Nobel, he met with Hoover. Williams says, "What really transpired may never be known," but he assumes that it was during this meeting that King was informed that the FBI had compiled a dossier of tapes and pictures on King. The dossier included no evidence of any communist infiltration of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference or control of King, the suspicion of which had prompted Robert F. Kennedy, then the Attorney General, to allow Hoover to conduct...
Again from the epigraph: "Plump-face men will mumble academic phrases... gentlemen of the cloth will speak unctuously of values and standards." One can easily picture the set of Hoover's bulldog jowls and imagine his inflection, particularly on the word "peace," when he suggested that King's behavior was hardly befitting the standards expected of a Nobel Prize winner. Equally conceivable is the overwhelming sense of dislocation and betrayal that must have hit King like the hot and hard wind of a desert sand storm. The camera and the microphone, which had been his two biggest weapons from...
...Harry S. Truman Library contains 9.3 million documents, the Franklin D. Roosevelt 22 million, the Dwight D. Eisenhower 15.5 million, the Herbert Hoover 4.6 million, and the as yet unbuilt John F. Kennedy Library will contain 17 million documents...
...Dwyer noted that J. Edgar Hoover had prejudiced the defendants' rights to a fair trial earlier, when he announced in November-before any indictment had been issued-that the Berrigans and others were plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger and hold him until the U. S. stopped the bombing in Southeast Asia...
...some of the Government's $1,104,000 in conference expense funds to send telegrams of endorsement to the nonviolent groups sponsoring last weekend's antiwar protests. Further bucking Administration policies, various task forces urged a complete end to strip mining, the immediate resignation of J. Edgar Hoover, and amnesty for all draft violators...