"In the interviews, she also called civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. "terrible," "tricky" and "a phony."
Jackie Kennedy: Martin Luther King Jr. "phony" - CBS News
Jackie Kennedy: Martin Luther King Jr. "phony" - CBS News
"In the interviews, she also called civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. "terrible," "tricky" and "a phony."
Jackie Kennedy: Martin Luther King Jr. "phony" - CBS News
Graham, I don't sit back. I find things of interest in the news, post them, and discuss them with whoever finds interest in the subject.
The Kennedys were being told by J. Edgar Hoover a number of inaccuracies about Dr. King (communist party sympathizer, etc.) and some unflattering accuracies (womanizing).
That is, according to Schlesinger, the course of a man of the unfavorable opinions of Dr. King some in the Kennedy administration had.
Note that this was in the earlier days of the Civil Rights movement when the political and social balance in the South was a mess, and the fear of a black/white civil war very high.
Interesting in the way that it gives you a chance to moan about Democrats?
Bob, trust me, get a life.
Jeff, I grew up in the South, in the '50s and no we did not fear a black/white civil war any more than someone in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles or San Francisco would have.
I think your regional biases are getting the better of you. Just for the record, in the 1960's here are the documented racial riots. Count how many are in the South versus the North.
• 1962 - Ole Miss riot 1962, September 30, The University of Mississippi
• 1964 - Harlem race riot, July 18–23 (New York City, United States)
• 1964 - 1964 Race Riots, July 21-August 2 and September 3 (Singapore)
• 1964 - Rochester 1964 race riot, July 24–25 (Rochester, New York, United States)
• 1964 - Jersey City 1964 race riot,[9] August 2–4 (Jersey City, New Jersey, United States)
• 1964 - Elizabeth 1964 race riot,[9] August 11–13 (Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States)
• 1964 - Dixmoor 1964 race riot[9] August 16–17 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
• 1964 - Philadelphia 1964 race riot August 28–30
• 1965 - Watts Riot, August 1965, (Los Angeles, California, United States)
• 1966 - Division Street Riots, June 12–14 (Humboldt Park, Chicago, United States)
• 1966 - Hough Riots, July 1966 (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
• 1966 - Hunter's Point Riot (San Francisco, California, United States)
• 1966 - Benton Harbor Riot, August–September 1966 (Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States)
• 1966 - Atlanta riot of 1966, Sep. 6 (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
• 1967 - Tampa Riots of 1967, June 1967 (Tampa, Florida, United States)
• 1967 - Buffalo riot of 1967, June 27 (Buffalo, New York, United States)
• 1967 - 1967 Newark riots, July 12–18, 1967 (Newark, New Jersey, United States)
• 1967 - 1967 Plainfield riots, July 14–20, 1967 (Plainfield, New Jersey, United States)
• 1967 - 12th Street Riot, July 23-27, 1967 (Detroit, Michigan, United States)
• 1968 - 1968 Washington, D.C. riots, April 1968 (Washington, D.C., United States)
• 1968 - Baltimore riot of 1968, April 6–12 (Baltimore, Maryland, United States)
• 1968 - Chicago riot of 1968 April 7–14 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
• 1968 - Kansas City riot of 1968, April 1968 (Kansas City, Missouri, United States)
• 1968 - Louisville riots of 1968, May 27, (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)
• 1968 - Glenville Shootout, (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
Race relations are, and have been a national issue and the South is certainly not alone in a history of segregation, hate and prejudice. I also don't see any Northern or Western cities as historical models of racial harmony. This is everybody's issue and everyone owns personal and collective solutions.
As far as Dr. King goes, on October 10, 1963, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to begin wiretapping the telephones of Dr. King. Kennedy believed that one of King's closest advisers was a top-level member of the American Communist Party. Remember this was shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the “Red Scare” of the 1950’s and the escalating tensions of the Cold War. The paranoia around anything “Red” was intense.
Two FBI informants —Jack and Morris Childs—set the investigation in motion. They revealed that Stanley David Levison, a white New York lawyer and businessman who first met Dr. King in 1956 was a very close confident of Dr. King. The FBI knew from the Childs brothers, that Levison had secretly served as one of the top two financiers for the Communist Party USA in the years just before he met King. The Childs brothers' direct contact with Levison from the mid-1940s to 1956 was sufficiently credible to generate an investigation. The Bureau hypothesized that someone with Levison's secret record service to the CPUSA might very well not have turned up at Martin Luther King's elbow by accident. Robert Kennedy and his aides felt they had little choice but to assume the worst and act as defensively as possible. The Kennedy Administration kept itself at arm's length from Dr. King, undertaking extensive electronic surveillance of Dr. King personally. While other issues were mentioned, he was subsequently cleared of any suspicion of communist ties.
Gravy, you and your ilk habitually accuse Conservatives of being racist. I'm pointing out the grand history of your side, the Party Of Robert Byrd, Grand Statesman of the Democratic Party for fifty years.
Bob,
You still don't get it. I don't have a "Side". You can't pidgeonhole me so that it can help you to point fingers. I follow a new political party. It's called "Common Sense".
How can "common sense" ever be defined?
Bob,
You still don't get it. I don't have a "Side". You can't pidgeonhole me so that it can help you to point fingers. I follow a new political party. It's called "Common Sense".
It's easy, I take you, and add intelligence and reasoning
But seriously Bob, It's by trying to open your mind to other points of view. Give it a go...
I grew up in the South in the 70s and 80s.
So I'm not sure what your point is..
Veek, I'm speechless. I said above that I agree there were racial issues in other parts of the country and I agree with you blacks were certainly not treated fairly pretty much anywhere until the civil rights movement.
I'm ashamed of where the South was on race, but fairly proud of where we are now. I hope you will join me in that.
Posted By Veek,It's pathetic that among other things, the schools serving the black community failing, black unemployment is still much higher than the national rate, the prisons are overflowing with black inmates, families are overwhelmed, neighborhoods are stagnant or gentrifying, and civic involvement appears to be eroding and all of this is the product of fifty years of liberal social engineering and educational failure.