FBI

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  1/15/2021
  

  A New Film Details the FBI’s Relentless Pursuit of Martin Luther King Jr.

  The new film "MLK/FBI" addresses Americans' failure to remember that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was unpopular, labeled as divisive and subversive, and subject to harassment by federal law enforcement agencies during his life. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/11/2020
  

  51 Years Later, Coded Message Attributed to Zodiac Killer Has Been Solved, F.B.I. Says

  The FBI announced that a Virginia software developer led a successful effort to solve a coded message created by the notorious Bay Area serial killer. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2020
  

  FBI Won’t Deliver Report on White-Supremacist Terror Threat Until After Election

  “This report probably would not be viewed favorably by this administration. That, I think, precipitates the report not being released by November 3,” Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson told The Daily Beast.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  9/16/2020
  

  From MLK to Whistleblowers, the FBI’s Trouble with Dissidents

  The films MLK/FBI and Enemies of the State offer contrasting looks at government oppression.

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• SOURCE: IndieWire
  9/13/2020
  

  ‘MLK/FBI’ Review: A Damning Look at J. Edgar Hoover’s Attempts to Destroy a Civil Rights Hero

  The most revealing takeaway from a new documentary on the FBI's campaign to take down Martin Luther King, Jr. isn’t that J. Edgar Hoover used every dirty machination at his disposal to take King down, but that most of the country seemed to think it was the right thing to do.

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• SOURCE: Orange County Register
  8/9/2020
  

  There’s Nothing New About Federal Meddling In Protest Movements

  by Brian Bensimon

  The FBI has a long history of acting more as a "national security" agency than a law enforcement body, targeting racial and ethnic minorities and leftist activists. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/5/2020
  

  Santae Tribble, Whose Wrongful Conviction Revealed FBI Forensic Hair Match Flaws, Dies at 59

  Legal experts said Tribble’s case and other wrongful convictions forced authorities to abandon blame of rogue FBI examiners or bad apples for systemic human error repeated over decades.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/26/2020
  

  The FBI Has a History of Targeting Black Activists. That's Still True Today

  The FBI has long disrupted and discredited civil rights leaders. It should put its authorities to better use by holding officers accountable.

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• SOURCE: Viewpoint
  6/9/2020
  

  Wanted: An End to Police Terror

  by Stuart Schrader

  Radical activists have long used the "Wanted" poster as a subversive strategy to advertise the crimes of police. The author asks if today's activists should move past a political rhetoric that accepts punishment and incarceration as necessary aspects of society. 

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  6/2/2020
  

  A Short History of U.S. Law Enforcement Infiltrating Protests

  It is a historical fact that law enforcement frequently infiltrates progressive political movements using agent provocateurs who urge others to engage in violence.

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• SOURCE: Washington Decoded
  4/11/2020
  

  John O’Connor Jumps the Shark

  by Mark Feldstein

  Mark Feldstein is unconvinced by a new book on Watergate.

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• 3/8/2020
  

  Who Killed Ralph Featherstone?

  by Peter Levy

  Reopening the investigation of the bombing deaths of Ralph Featherstone and William Payne at the fiftieth anniversary of the crime will shed further light on the dangers of unchecked government agencies and the shortcomings of the fifth estate.

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  6/12/19
  

  We need to face the whole truth about Martin Luther King, Jr.

  by Jonathon Zimmerman

  The reactions to this latest episode smack of a different kind of conspiracy, which historians should both recognize and resist: the conspiracy of silence.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic Journal-Constitution
  6/7/19
  

  Enhancing the historical record is scholars’ foremost task

  by David Garrow

  David Garrow defends his recent controversial article about Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  5/30/19
  

  What Are We Supposed to Think of Martin Luther King Jr. Now?

  by Rod Radosh

  Some thought Garrow should keep his discoveries under wraps, but it is the job of the historian to tell the truth. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/8/19
  

  A historian's claims about Martin Luther King are shocking – and irresponsible

  by Donna Murch

  A recent essay claims the civil rights leader was present during a rape, but the evidence is shaky and there’s reason to be skeptical.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/3/19
  

  A Black Feminist’s Response to Attacks on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy

  by Barbara Ransby

  We should not become historical peeping Toms by trafficking in what amounts to rumor and innuendo.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/3/2019
  

  About the FBI’s Spying

  by William McGurn

  What’s the difference between surveillance of Carter Page and Martin Luther King?

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  6/4/19
  

  How to Make Sense of the Shocking New MLK Documents

  by David Greenberg

  A new trove of FBI records has become yet another political weapon in our hyper-partisan age. That doesn’t mean we should ignore it.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/4/19
  

  David Garrow's Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor.

  David Garrow found F.B.I. documents alleging King stood by during a rape. But some scholars question whether to trust records created as part of a smear campaign.