✅ True. The anonymous letter was delivered to his wife, Coretta Scott King, along with a package that contained a tape that allegedly bore evidence of King’s sexual misconduct.
to his wife, Coretta Scott King, along with a package that contained a tape that allegedly bore evidence of King’s sexual misconduct.
The letter continues with, “Your ‘honorary degrees,’ your Nobel Prize . . . will not save you.” It adds, “It is all there on the record, your sexual orgies. Listen to yourself, you filthy, abnormal animal. You are on the record. You have been on the record—all your adulterous acts, your sexual orgies extending far into the past. This one is but a tiny sample.
The president knew Hoover had taped King’s sexual assignations. Hoover was using the information in an attempt to disgrace King at the White House, in Congress, and in his own home.But the effects of such surveillance and dirty tricks are worth analyzing in contemporary times. Gage, the Harvard professor, wrote in The
Parham, Jason. “The Uncensored FBI Letter to MLK Found Hidden in the National Archives.” Gawker, https://www.gawker.com/the-uncensored-fbi-letter-to-mlk-found-hidden-in-the-na-1657593062. Accessed 25 Jan. 2022.
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