U.S. Government’s SUICIDE Letter to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech before huge crowds on the National Mall in August 1963, was considered a monumental testament to humanity, but the U.S. government had a different take. FBI Domestic Intelligence Chief William Sullivan wrote in a memo two days later:
“We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security,”
A massive surveillance operation on King was quickly approved by U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover led the destructive process that ultimately led to Dr. King’s murder in Memphis on April 4, 1968. Here is a letter the U.S. government sent to Dr. King in 1964 to convince him to commit suicide:
