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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…
New FBI Agents Will Be Required to Visit Martin Luther King Memorial
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New FBI agents are already required to tour the Holocaust Museum. FBI Director James Comey is adding another required visit in Washington D.C. – the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the USA Today reports. “I think it will serve as a different kind of reminder — one more personal to the bureau —…
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…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Dream’ Speech Prompted FBI to Launch Spying Campaign
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech inspired African Americans in 1963, the FBI was worrying aloud whether the civil rights leader was gaining too much influence and popularity, Bloomberg reports. Two months after the speech, then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy approved a campaign to spy on King in an…
Newspaper to Examine FBI Treatment of Civil Rights Icons in 1960s
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is releasing dozens of investigative files involving civil rights-era photographer Ernest Withers as part of a lawsuit with The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tenn., CNN reports. Among the files is an investigation of Martin Luther King Jr. while in Memphis in 1968, CNN reported. The bureau also examined the NAACP,…
Rat Poison and Shrapnel Found in Bomb at MLK Day Parade in Spokane
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More details are surfacing about the mysterious bomb that was found along the parade route of the MLK Day parade in Spokane, Wash. on Jan. 17. CNN reports that the bomb contained rat poisoning and metal shrapnel, all designed to maximize damage. The Spokesman-Review reported that the rat poison is used…
FBI Reports Provide Details on the Surging Threats to Congress Members
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A surge of threats have been pouring into our nation’s lawmakers, and the FBI provided details to Politico. One threat involved a voice mail message in February 2009 to Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mi.) , according to Politico: “We’re gonna [expletive] get you,” the man said. “We’re gonna get you with a…
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