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Rolling Stone In ‘MLK/FBI,’ Director Sam Pollard Investigates Why Hoover Needed His Civil Rights Villain By the film’s end, Martin Luther King Jr. and J. Edgar Hoover — who met face-to-face only once — emerge as an inseparable American pair By K. Austin Collins's Most Recent Stories The title of Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI should be taken literally. This is a two-pronged investigation into a conspicuously fraught and, for the FBI, embarrassing moment in the American political establishment’s too-recent past. The documentary is primarily a study of the public and private sel...

Ms. Hornaday’s thesis is that normal people (specifically white male Christians) are bad. Her case in point: the FBI’s investigation of Martin Luther King: In fact, the White, male, Christian version of normal was precisely what J. Edgar Hoover was going for when he recruited for the FBI, the investigative agency he ran with an iron fist for nearly 50 years.… Hornaday [Tweet her] says of the 1965–1974 FBI TV Series  I certainly don’t remember any episode where they wiretapped and bugged Martin Luther King Jr. to gather salacious material that would disrupt his movement, destroy hi...

Documentary looks at Hoover’s attempt to ruin Martin Luther King Jr. Ed Symkus More Content Now History tells us that J. Edgar Hoover ran the FBI from 1924 to 1972. James Earl Jones, in a short voiceover near the start of “MLK/FBI,” tells us, “From 1955 to 1968, Martin Luther King led a peaceful 20th-century American revolution.” In this documentary that looks at the achievements and interactions of both men, mostly during the 1960s, it’s suggested that Hoover was attempting to protect the American way of life, and it’s stated that King’s goal was to champion the Civil Rights ...

MLK/FBI puts civil rights leader and agency under a microscope MLK/FBI puts civil rights leader and agency under a microscope The film is based on David Garrow’s 1981 book The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. Photo courtesy of IFC Films Few Americans are more admired than slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Yet at the same time, he was a man whose personal life was, shall we say, complicated, and whose activities drew the attention — warranted or unwarranted — of the FBI for a good portion of his life. All of that is examined in the new documentary

A year ago the official Twitter account of the Federal Bureau of Investigation tweeted, "Today, the FBI honors the life and work of the Reverend Dr.