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However, no proof is given that Martin Luther King, Jr. ever said it either. Skye Jethian concurs: Strangely, the line was used on more than one occasion by Martin Luther King Jr. as well and it sometimes falsely attributed as original. But that is neither here nor there. Anyway, no documentation it was originated by either.
That William Sullivan, or anyone at the FBI, penned the letter is based on, first, that during the Church Committee hearings and investigations in 1975 (over a decade later), a copy was discovered in the work files of Sullivan, and second, in 2017 when the NYT reports to have found an unredacted copy in J. Edgar Hoover's confidential files at the National Archives.
In a review of Taylor Branch's biography of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Slate Magazine repeats a story that can be found in several places on the web: On Jan. 6, 1964, FBI men installed microphones in King's Washington, D.C., hotel room and turned on the tape recorder.
Dovey said "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy", and then quoted Martin Luther King Jr.: "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
Is Martin Luther King right? Was Hitler "clean" (cannot be charged under the then-law) in the eyes of the law? If the question is too broad (if "everything" includes reckless youth behaviour) , were his actions perfectly legal while he was the ruler of Germany?
He had been head of the FBI’s Division Five, which handled the King and Kennedy investigations. There was a claim by William Sullivan's friend Robart Novak that William Sullivan specifically predicted that his own death by the following words "Someday you will read that I have been killed in an accident, but don’t believe it; I’ve been ...
A 12-year-old girl created family tree linking 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to King John of England, who signed the Magna Carta in 1215. Only the eighth president, Martin Van Buren, was not related to John. This has been recently spreading on news web-sites and Facebook, especially by conspiracy theorists. Is this true?
A traditional tale tells the story of Henry I (1100-1135) who decreed that the yard should be "the distance from the tip of the King's nose to the end of his outstretched thumb". The 12th century William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England reported that King Henry I redefeined the ell in terms of his own arm. So the basic idea is ...
I've seen this quote in various far-right memes. Supposedly, Gen. George S. Patton, upon taking control of Berlin in 1945, said "We defeated the wrong enemy." The Communists, one supposes, were the...
The phrase "Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the Bible" is attributed to Napoleon on many sites but there are no further details (date, context,etc.) available, nor a tra...