Why FBI’s Treatment of Martin Luther King Jr. Should Never Be Forgotten
The FBI believed King was working with foreign communists, and the attorney general approved wiretaps of his home and offices.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Read More
FBI Tried to Stop Martin Luther King Jr. from Delivering College Commencement in 1964
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just days after Martin Luther King Jr. was invited to speak at Springfield College’s commencement in 1964, the FBI tried to get the school to cancel speech, the Atlantic reports in an account detailing new questionable tactics against the civil rights icon. At the time, King had been the subject of extraordinary…
Stejskal: Mississippi Burning 50 Years Later
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com The 60s were a tumultuous decade, and 1964 was emblematic of that decade. Arthur Ashe won the US Open, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel…
New FBI Agents, Analysts Required to Visit MLK Monument in Washington
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com All new FBI agents and analysts must visit the monument for the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., new FBI Director James Comey said Monday, Reuters reports. The idea, he said, is to remind people of the African American struggles for equality. For similar reasons, new agents and analysts also…
FBI Agents Held Off For Hours Telling Suspect Why He Was Arrested
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge was none to happy to hear that the FBI intentionally failed for several hours to tell a man suspected of planting a bomb at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Wash., why he had been arrested, the Associated Press reported. He was also not immediately…
Six Decades Later, FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List Still Hard to Crack
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — In the film “Take the Money and Run,” Woody Allen played a bumbling, publicity-starved petty criminal named Virgil Starkwell. “You know he never made the Ten Most Wanted list,” Starkwell’s wife, Louise, lamented in the 1969 comedy. “It’s very unfair voting. It’s who you know.” As Allen’s…
FBI Arrests Man in MLK Day Bomb Incident in Spokane
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI on Wednesday announced the arrest of an ex-soldier with ties to White Supremacists in connection with a bomb that was placed along the parade route at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Unity March in Spokane, Wa., on Jan. 17. Kevin William Harpham, age 36, of Colville, Wa. was…
Congressman Opposes Plan to Name Museum Research Center After J. Edgar Hoover
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI’s legendary director J. Edgar Hoover continues to stir up controversy. The latest: the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) is voicing opposition to a plan to name the research center at the yet to be built National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington…