18 November

18 November 2008 - 12:00am — P and J

After Martin Luther King complains about the FBI's failure to protect civil rights campaigners, FBI director J Edgar Hoover describes him as ‘the most notorious liar in the country'.
This was on 18 November 1964. The next week Hoover says that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King helped to found, is ‘spearheaded by communists and moral degenerates.
For his part, King responds with restraint: ‘I cannot conceive of Mr Hoover making a statement like this without being under (...)

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