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Wed Mar-02-05 04:07 PM
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Thurmond encouraged FBI to build case against King, memo reveals |
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By Lauren Markoe and John Monk, Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond and his staff tried to get the FBI (news - web sites) to build a case against civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 on the grounds that King was "controlled by communists," according to a recently released FBI memo on the late senator from South Carolina.
The memo shows Thurmond's attempt to marry two causes dear to him - fighting communism and defeating civil rights.
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Thurmond wasn't the only conservative politician who tried to paint the civil rights movement's leaders as "red." But the FBI memo plumbs the depths of Thurmond's aversion to desegregation. And with other pages in the now-public file, it shows how much of Thurmond's politics was dedicated to fighting the "Red Menace."
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One Thurmond aide, according to the FBI memo, said the senator wanted King to be exposed as a communist. DeLoach's memo recounts the aide "stated that it was widely understood that King was controlled by communists in this country."
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Nightwing
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Wed Mar-02-05 04:08 PM
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Wed Mar-02-05 04:09 PM
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Edited on Wed Mar-02-05 04:12 PM by quiet.american
Gosh, I must be losing it. When I read "Thurmond," somehow I translated that into "Thrugood Marshall" and was thinking -- "what????"
Thurmond, however, makes perfect sense.
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Wed Mar-02-05 04:14 PM
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3. too bad the FBI didn't expose him as satan. |
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Wed Mar-02-05 06:09 PM
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6. too bad his daughter didn't unmask him |
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before he did all this irreparable damage
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Wed Mar-02-05 04:22 PM
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I hope eventually we'll get to see the complete picture of the evil Bush and his gang are up to now. That's a day I long for.
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Wed Mar-02-05 05:30 PM
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5. Do we really want to win the south |
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If this is the kind of person they re-elected forever,a racist,bigot,rapist.How ignorant does one have to be to re-elect someone like that.
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Thu Mar-03-05 03:50 AM
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7. Strom Thurmond encouraged FBI to go after Martin Luther King. |
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Edited on Thu Mar-03-05 02:45 AM by NightTrain
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Thu Mar-03-05 03:50 AM
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8. He was one nasty Mother Fucker |
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Lots of skeletons in that creep's closet.
Lots of SHEETS and HOODS TOO !!!!
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Thu Mar-03-05 03:50 AM
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9. Yes! He was one who wanted everybody to "toe the line"...... |
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He saw MLK as disrupting the country's peace. Say the man was out of touch? He use to say proudly at fund raters that his grand father owned slaves and some of them and their kids worked for his father so it must not have been that bad if they stayed.
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Thu Mar-03-05 03:50 AM
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10. Strom, Trent Lott, Jesse Helms & David Duke-all Republicans. |
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Thu Mar-03-05 03:52 AM
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11. From Yahoo News: Thurmond urged FBI to build case against King. |
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Edited on Thu Mar-03-05 02:47 AM by NightTrain
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Thu Mar-03-05 03:52 AM
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Thu Mar-03-05 03:52 AM
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13. And....are we surprised? |
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...I wonder if Strom consulted his black daughter before he wanted to ruin King....
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Thu Mar-03-05 03:52 AM
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What a fucking waste of DNA that motherfucker was! :grr::nuke::mad:
"Yuh peckuh...it knows no bigotreh!"
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Thu Mar-03-05 03:52 AM
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15. I love Bill Hicks' riff on Thurmond... |
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Bill's probably ridiculing Strom on The Other Side as we speak..
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