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21. wait, is anyone claiming Hoover personally wrote the letter?

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Tue Jan 20, 2015, 09:26 PM

Jan 2015

"Lend your sexually psychotic ear to the enclosure... filthy, dirty... male and females giving expression... your sexual orgies, you filthy, abnormal animal"

The author of this piece is clearly... invested in the subject.

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FBI�s letter, demanding that Martin Luther King commit suicide, released in full [View all] Triana Jan 2015 OP

B.S. nt snappyturtle Jan 2015 #1

Can you provide info to back up the "BS" claim? n/t Triana Jan 2015 #8

Yes. I was seventeen years old consequently old enough to well understand snappyturtle Jan 2015 #15

Uh-huh... Triana Jan 2015 #16

OMG! An historian from Yale. Well that cinches it. I just take great offense to the snappyturtle Jan 2015 #20

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See response #4 . . . Triana Jan 2015 #10

Here's a link to the NYT article . octoberlib Jan 2015 #4

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The picture was taken December 1, 1964. Octafish Jan 2015 #13

Wow. Sort of as I figured. Triana Jan 2015 #14

This makes no sense Number23 Jan 2015 #17

Google is your friend PCIntern Jan 2015 #18

Perhaps a better version of Google is needed because that article doesn't come close to answering Number23 Jan 2015 #19

wait, is anyone claiming Hoover personally wrote the letter? foo_bar Jan 2015 #21

That's what I'm trying to figure out! Number23 Jan 2015 #22