FBI

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• 3/8/2020
  

  Who Killed Ralph Featherstone?

  by Peter Levy

  Reopening the investigation of the bombing deaths of Ralph Featherstone and William Payne at the fiftieth anniversary of the crime will shed further light on the dangers of unchecked government agencies and the shortcomings of the fifth estate.

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  6/12/19
  

  We need to face the whole truth about Martin Luther King, Jr.

  by Jonathon Zimmerman

  The reactions to this latest episode smack of a different kind of conspiracy, which historians should both recognize and resist: the conspiracy of silence.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic Journal-Constitution
  6/7/19
  

  Enhancing the historical record is scholars’ foremost task

  by David Garrow

  David Garrow defends his recent controversial article about Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  5/30/19
  

  What Are We Supposed to Think of Martin Luther King Jr. Now?

  by Rod Radosh

  Some thought Garrow should keep his discoveries under wraps, but it is the job of the historian to tell the truth. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/8/19
  

  A historian's claims about Martin Luther King are shocking – and irresponsible

  by Donna Murch

  A recent essay claims the civil rights leader was present during a rape, but the evidence is shaky and there’s reason to be skeptical.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/3/19
  

  A Black Feminist’s Response to Attacks on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy

  by Barbara Ransby

  We should not become historical peeping Toms by trafficking in what amounts to rumor and innuendo.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/3/2019
  

  About the FBI’s Spying

  by William McGurn

  What’s the difference between surveillance of Carter Page and Martin Luther King?

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  6/4/19
  

  How to Make Sense of the Shocking New MLK Documents

  by David Greenberg

  A new trove of FBI records has become yet another political weapon in our hyper-partisan age. That doesn’t mean we should ignore it.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/4/19
  

  David Garrow's Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor.

  David Garrow found F.B.I. documents alleging King stood by during a rape. But some scholars question whether to trust records created as part of a smear campaign.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic Journal-Constitution
  5/31/19
  

  Biographer Garrow pens explosive report on Martin Luther King Jr.

  The FBI allegations chronicled by Garrow could trigger a new examination of the civil rights hero’s personal life.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/30/19
  

  J. Edgar Hoover’s revenge: Information the FBI once hoped could destroy Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been declassified

  by Trevor Griffey

  An article just published by the U.K.-based Standpoint Magazine alleges that civil rights icon Martin Luther King witnessed and even celebrated a woman’s rape.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/30/19
  

  ‘Irresponsible’: Historians attack David Garrow’s MLK allegations

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning King biographer says he doesn’t believe his reputation will suffer.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/14/19
  

  F.B.I. Bars Some China Scholars From Visiting U.S. Over Spying Fears

  The F.B.I. director, warned at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last year that China presented “a whole-of-society threat on their end” that required a “whole-of-society response.”

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-5-18
  

  The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s

  by Margaret O’Mara

  Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10-15-18
  

  The Dawn of Television Promised Diversity. Here’s Why We Got “Leave It to Beaver” Instead.

  Using original archival research and FBI blacklist documents, a new book pieces together the intersectional narratives that never made it on air.

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  9-3-18
  

  Republican Sen. Ben Sasse (a historian) drops a bombshell on the debate over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court

  "I urged the president to nominate a different individual," Sasse said. "I urged the president to nominate a woman."

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-2-18
  

  How the FBI’s flawed investigation of Clarence Thomas became a model for Kavanaugh’s

  And why it shouldn't.  For one thing, the FBI never talked to — or even knew to look for — four potential witnesses who had knowledge of Anita Hill’s complaints about Thomas.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-24-18
  

  FBI brought down foreign agents in the past

  by Douglas M. Charles

  In the first and second world wars, the FBI effectively uprooted foreign influence campaigns. Today, the agency faces an uphill battle.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  5-22-18
  

  When the CIA Infiltrated a Presidential Campaign

  Trump’s allegations about FBI surveillance may be baseless. But it actually happened to Barry Goldwater.

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• 3/27/18
  

  How a Reporter Uncovered the FBI’s Secret Use of a Famous Photographer to Infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement

  by Marc Perrusquia

  Decades later the FBI was still trying to conceal their source’s identity.