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Having concluded that King was dangerous due to communist infiltration, the
FBI shifted to attempting to discredit King through revelations regarding
his private life. FBI surveillance of King, some of it since made public,
attempted to demonstrate that he also engaged in numerous extramarital
affairs.[191] Lyndon Johnson once said that King was a "hypocritical
preacher".[202]
Ralph Abernathy stated in his 1989 autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling
Down that King had a "weakness for women", although they "all understood
and believed in the biblical prohibition against sex outside of marriage. It
was just that he had a particularly difficult time with that temptation".[
203] In a later interview, Abernathy said that he only wrote the term "
womanizing", that he did not specifically say King had extramarital sex and
that the infidelities King had were emotional rather than sexual.[204]
David Garrow wrote about a number of extramarital affairs, including one
woman King saw almost daily. According to Garrow, "that relationship ...
increasingly became the emotional centerpiece of King's life, but it did not
eliminate the incidental couplings ... of King's travels." King explained
his extramarital affairs as "a form of anxiety reduction". Garrow noted that
King's promiscuity caused him "painful and at times overwhelming guilt".[
205] King's wife Coretta appeared to have accepted his affairs with
equanimity, saying once that "all that other business just doesn't have a
place in the very high level relationship we enjoyed."[206]
The FBI distributed reports regarding such affairs to the executive branch,
friendly reporters, potential coalition partners and funding sources of the
SCLC, and King's family.[207] The Bureau also sent anonymous letters to King
threatening to reveal information if he did not cease his civil rights work
.[208]
One anonymous letter sent to King just before he received the Nobel Peace
Prize read, in part,
The American public, the church organizations that have been helping—
Protestants, Catholics and Jews will know you for what you are—an evil
beast. So will others who have backed you. You are done. King, there is only
one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in
which to do (this exact number has been selected for a specific reason, it
has definite practical significant [sic]). You are done. There is but one
way out for you. You better take it before your filthy fraudulent self is
bared to the nation.[209]
A tape recording of several of King's extramarital liaisons, excerpted from
FBI wiretaps, accompanied the letter.[210] King interpreted this package as
an attempt to drive him to suicide,[211] although William Sullivan, head of
the Domestic Intelligence Division at the time, argued that it may have only
been intended to "convince Dr. King to resign from the SCLC".[185] King
refused to give in to the FBI's threats.[191]
Judge John Lewis Smith, Jr. in 1977 ordered that all known copies of the
recorded audiotapes and written transcripts resulting from the FBI's
electronic surveillance of King between 1963 and 1968 to be held in the
National Archives and sealed from public access until 2027.[212] |
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