Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Time acknowledged that "Williams has the correct outline of the FBI tape story. What he does not have is precisely what happened at the celebrated meeting . . . Hoover, Time learned . . . suggested that King should tone down his criticism of the FBI. King took the advice. His decline in black esteem followed, a decline scathingly narrated by Williams." Besides the obvious attempt to undermine Williams' credibility, Time makes no mention of King's role in the aceldama at Pettus Bridge, or of any other event that might have motivated him to strike out in new directions...
...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...
...another country, responsible to a different constituency, Martin King perhaps would have been less vulnerable to Hoover's ploy, but he was in puritan America, and was responsible to the puritans-at first, the black, but now, the white. Their press had made him. Their financial support had underwritten his activities. Their power protected him from acts of Gothic violence like those that had cancelled the lives of Emmet Till, Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner, and the four girls in the bombed church at Birmingham. Made myopic by his ego and his mendacious assumptions about the nature of America, King...
...Montgomery. The eight bombings testify to that. After Montgomery, perhaps out of fear or a sense of self importance, King began to retreat from his position in the vanguard. As early as 1963, his presence in the front line was irregular, and his last arrest was even before the Hoover confrontation. However, just as the bombings indicate that King was out there and was dangerous, the confrontation with Hoover is proof that King's power potential had grown. As Williams says, "there was always the change-growing with every campaign-that King could wind up with a genuine power...