MSNBCW All In With Chris Hayes June 12, 2013
0 they're the good guys. but the united states government at the time, it was not at all clear. in 1963, president kennedy, himself, said this of dr. king. >> the trouble with king is everybody thinks he's our boy. king is so hot these days it's like marx coming to the white house. >> he admitted later he asked the fbi to make an intensive investigation of martin luther king. and that on october 10th, 1963, he personally authorized the fbi to begin wiretapping king's phones. the kennedys were most certainly not alone in these attitudes toward dr. king. in the 1960s, much of the security appara...