Wednesday, 22 January 2020

22: The Dream Maker

The sanitized history of the civil rights movement collapses under the weight of FBI suicide letters, communist ties, and the suspicious deaths of the King family.

By Moe Factz with Adam Curry | 1h 39m listen | 33 chapters
22: The Dream Maker cover

About this episode

Martin Luther King Jr. faced a 1958 assassination attempt by Izola Ware Curry and a 1999 civil trial verdict that implicated the U.S. government in his eventual murder. The King family legacy extends beyond the 1963 March on Washington to include the mysterious 1969 drowning of Alfred Daniel King and the 1974 church assassination of Alberta King by Marcus Wayne Chennault. These events challenge the sanitized media portrayal of the civil rights movement as a simple nonviolent arc.

Bayard Rustin and Stanley Levinson managed the movement’s logistics while facing intense FBI surveillance from J. Edgar Hoover due to their ties to the Young Communist League and the Highlander Folk School. Documents from the National Archives reveal the FBI sent King a suicide letter and recordings of extramarital affairs involving Joan Baez. Political shifts occurred when John F. Kennedy secured King’s release from a Georgia jail, prompting Martin Luther King Sr. to abandon the Republican Party. Meanwhile, activists strategically selected Rosa Parks over the darker-skinned Claudette Colvin to serve as the face of the Montgomery bus boycott for better media marketability.

Judge Joe Brown disputes the official narrative of the James Earl Ray rifle, while Jesse Jackson’s claim of cradling the dying leader remains a point of contention among King’s inner circle. The program explores the dark irony of a Florida plaque that accidentally thanked James Earl Ray instead of James Earl Jones. The episode concludes with the soul track Mr. Dream Merchant as a final reflection on these suppressed histories.


CHAPTER 01 / 33 Discussion

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Reflection and Show Introduction

The hosts open episode 22 of the program on January 21, 2020, reflecting on the significance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. One host expresses regret for missing the actual holiday due to a prior volunteering engagement. They prepare to examine the life and legacy of Dr. King beyond the standard mainstream media narrative.

martin luther king jr· mlk day· adam curry· mo fax· volunteering

00:00 Don't wake me, I'm dreaming Come on, baby! Mo Fax with Adam Curry for January 21st, 2020. This is episode number 21, and it's Adam and Mo for all the ladies out there playing all the jams for you, which is another show we gotta do, Mo. We gotta do that together. Yes, we do and it's show 22 sir. Did I say 21? I'm sorry show 22 Thank you an error in the system. Yes, take one from me man. We Know I don't want to take anything from you now. I have to apologize To everybody and really to the I feel like I've done the show a disservice. I there was a prior engagement that I

00:53 I had put on the books before we shifted our recording time to Monday evenings and I really didn't want to cancel that. But now just looking over what we might be talking about tonight and fully well aware that yesterday we celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King, I feel like I am a traitor. I've done the show a disservice. Well, no, I knew exactly where you were at. You were volunteering like everybody else. Yes, I was volunteering my time. Exactly right. I'm sure you were doing the same. No, I wasn't. All right, everybody, we're going to spin the big wheel. Let's find out what we'll be talking about tonight, which really should have been yesterday, an important day.

CHAPTER 02 / 33 Discussion

Mainstream Media Portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr.

The discussion centers on how the mainstream media focuses almost exclusively on the "I Have a Dream" speech delivered in Georgia. The hosts contrast this simplified version of Dr. King with the complex reality of his life. They note that while the media promotes a nonviolent pacifist image, King's actual history includes both positive and negative complexities.

martin luther king jr· i have a dream· mainstream media· coming to america· georgia

01:42 Oh, our topic for today is Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King who is that who is that who is Martin Luther King? We're talking about dr. Martin Luther King no no who said that who said that on the clip that was from coming to America Yes, that is one of my favorite movies I liked it a lot even Arsenio Hall was good in that and Yes, he was. I thought I'd throw that in there. Thank you. Very nice. Very nice. Okay. So, yes, apologies. We should have had this out yesterday, but maybe yesterday everyone had a chance to, you know, kind of soak in the mainstream media version. Yeah, so you know what mainstream media gave you? That I have a dream. Have a dream. That one day we'll rise and live out the truth. We hold it that all men to be true. That one day on the red hills of Georgia

02:58 And may I thank you for finding one of the better quality versions of that clip. I hear so many versions of it, which is old film optical sound. This is pretty decent. Yeah, I tried to pick the best quality clips. I even do a little producing to your musicologist.

03:48 Yeah, yes I am. So... I know, I know. It's appreciated and it's noticed. Yeah, so what we're not gonna do is that. Oh, okay. I thought we could do more. Oh, all right. So... No, we're not gonna do that. Okay, good, good, good. MLK was a very special person. He had Good and bad. That's what we're gonna do here We're gonna talk about both the good and the bad and what I really want to focus on is one How he is used as a product now or his image is used as a product one and then to the influences around him Because what people don't really know is oh, it was let's just start with how he is used and

CHAPTER 03 / 33 Discussion

Chronicles of Judah 144 on MLK as a Control Mechanism

A clip from YouTuber Chronicles of Judah 144 argues that Caucasian liberals use the image of Martin Luther King Jr. as a "trigger" to control Black Americans. The commentator claims King was utilized as a pawn for globalism and communism, which he equates to Luciferianism. The hosts use this perspective to frame King as a complex figure who eventually questioned the systems he helped integrate people into.

chronicles of judah 144· globalism· luciferianism· communism· control mechanism

04:38 This is Chronicles of Judah, one of our favorite YouTubers, and he talks about MLK the Trigger. The Caucasian liberals have a lot invested in the image of Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King is a trigger that they use to control American blacks. Remember, whenever American blacks start to get out of control, they bring up Martin Luther King. Because that's how they reign you in. You gotta be more like Dr. King. You have to follow his message. You have to want to be with me. You have to want to hold my hand. Once again, Martin Luther King was a pawn of the globalists. They utilized him to bring you black people into the fold of globalism, aka Luciferianism.

05:23 The economic system of Luciferianism is communism. Oh Moe you're talking my language with this one. I love it. Let me just get this straight. It was YouTuber was Chronicles of what? Of Judah 144. Chronicles of Judah 144. Okay I just want to make sure we have that in the show notes for everybody. Okay that was good. I like that. That was that was good to listen to. So this is that's why I said The real person, Dr. Martin Luther King was a very complex person. As we talked about before, he went from nonviolent to at the end of his life saying he ushered, he think he ushered his people into a burning house. So that shows complex, but mainstream media wants you to have a dream. And they want to use that nonviolent pacifist

CHAPTER 04 / 33 Discussion

Early Life and Academic Grooming of Michael King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael Luther King Jr. on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Raised in a religious and activist household, he skipped two grades and entered Morehouse College at the age of 15. The hosts suggest he was groomed for leadership from a young age by his father, a prominent reverend and NAACP leader.

michael luther king jr· atlanta· morehouse college· ebenezer baptist church· naacp

06:21 ideology to shape the mind of black people, quote unquote black people in America. So it's a control mechanism. But as we get into this, I just want to do a little background on Martin Luther King, a crusader for liberation. Martin Luther King Jr. was a minister and leading activist during the 20th century civil rights movement. He was born Michael Luther King Jr. on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta and later changed his name to Martin. King grew up steeped in religion and activism. His father was a reverend at Ebenezer Baptist Church and a local NAACP leader. A talented student, King skipped two grades in high school and entered Morehouse College at age 15. King was skeptical about Christianity as a boy, but later embraced his faith and entered the seminary.

07:20 Okay, so the reason why I rang the bell at age 15. Yeah, he was he was being groomed to be a protege a la Greta Many examples. Yeah, that's yeah Wow and and who was doing the grooming his father see he grew up in a pastor rich family his father married into a church family So he married into his grandfather on his mother's side ran I think Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Right, well he was being groomed in the cloth. I mean that that seems kind of logical. You have a parochial family like that. That's not, you know, it's not necessarily a boulet illuminati yet.

CHAPTER 05 / 33 Discussion

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Margaret Sanger Award

The hosts discuss Dr. King's receipt of the first Margaret Sanger Award, linking him to the founder of the eugenics movement and Planned Parenthood. They suggest King was a member of the Boule and note that Sanger's history involved targeting minorities and the poor for sterilization. This detail is presented as a fact often omitted from standard hagiographies of the civil rights leader.

margaret sanger· planned parenthood· eugenics· boule· civil rights

08:16 Well, well, well, slam on the brakes. Wait, pump the brakes. Yes, he's definitely a card-carrying member of the Boule. He is. As we talked about before with Margaret Sanger. Oh, right, right, right, right. Just have the reverence. Yeah, okay, got it. The reverend and A little known fact, he actually won the first Margaret Sanger award. We have to give a little background to Margaret Sanger, just a tad. She started the eugenics movement.

08:56 which eventually became Planned Parenthood. Now, you know, I don't need to talk about if they've changed since then or not, but they was totally like sterilizing black men. This is all total fact history and was accepted belief at the time. Yeah, I have no argument there. She definitely was targeting minorities, poor, quote unquote, poor white trash. And it was of that ilk. But I just want to make sure that we don't say that she only targeted at minorities. Quote unquote, minorities. So, but I just wanted to, yeah, he was...

09:35 Yeah, he was awarded the Margaret Sanger Award. I just wanted to point that out, just so you know. Minor little detail that gets glossed over in the hagiography on Martin Luther King Day itself. Yes, and the other thing in that clip that I want to point out that he was reluctant to go into the church business or the faith, as they pointed out in that clip. I rarely do this, but please forgive me. I'm going to use a robo voice because I couldn't find many clips on this next man. Martin Luther King Sr. Martin Luther King Sr. was a Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early leader in the American civil rights movement. He was also the father of Martin Luther King Jr.

CHAPTER 06 / 33 Discussion

Martin Luther King Sr. and the 1933 Germany Trip

Martin Luther King Sr., originally Michael King, changed his and his son's names after a 1933 trip to Germany. Inspired by the theologian Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, the elder King returned to Atlanta to lead the Ebenezer Baptist Church and the local NAACP. The hosts question the nature of a Black minister's visit to Nazi Germany during that specific political era.

martin luther king sr· michael king· nazi germany· protestant reformation· martin luther

10:30 Early life, King, born Michael King, led the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and became a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, as the head of the NAACP chapter in Atlanta and of the Civic and Political League. He encouraged his son to become active in the movement. He also changed his name from Michael King to Martin Luther King after becoming inspired during a trip to Germany by the life of Martin Luther, the German theologian who initiated the Protestant Reformation. Now was that the CPA, the Communist Party of America? Well, you're getting ahead of yourself. So I need to put you put your I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm right now. That was that was a that was easy connection. So I won't get on you too much. But you know, you are from the future. So we need you to put those goggles on. But what was strange was Martin Luther King senior and Martin Luther King Jr. were originally

11:31 Michael King senior and Michael King jr. Huh, but Michael King senior makes his trip to Nazi Germany in 1933 and he comes back and changes his name and his son's name to Martin Luther King, huh? Because what you doing not Germany because the Nazi tie where the Nazi visit was or the German visit was Problematic or could be seen as problematic. I guess yeah, what were you doing? That was just I can't find too much information on what they were I mean it was a group of pastors ministers That went over there. What was a black man doing in Nazi Germany in 1933? chilling Netflix and running track of boxing

CHAPTER 07 / 33 Discussion

Izola Ware Curry and the 1958 Harlem Stabbing

In September 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest with a seven-inch letter opener by Izola Ware Curry during a book signing in Harlem. Curry, described as a demented woman, believed King was a communist spy. Doctors stated King was a "sneeze away from death" because the blade was positioned dangerously close to his aorta.

izola ware curry· harlem· assassination attempt· communism· letter opener

12:16 I mean, that was a throwback to other shows that we had. But yeah, that was the only two people that I know. So it was just strange. You come back, you change your name. So for a little bit more background, let's get into Crusaders for Liberation 2. King was now the national face of the civil rights cause. He was jailed over 20 times, was once stabbed in the chest, his house was bombed, and he suffered relentless personal attacks on himself and his family. One day I was crying profusely.

12:56 And mom picked us up from school and asked me, well, what's wrong? And I said, well, the kids said, daddy's a jailbird. And she explained to me why he was going to jail, that he was really going to jail to make this world a better place for all of God's children. Well, the next day I came back to school with almost a new attitude, being proud of what my father was doing. So had you ever heard of Martin Luther King being stabbed? No. I've heard none of this. Where did you dig this up? This was on biography actually. So it's not, I mean, there's not like a... No, it's not like a hidden secret. Yeah, hidden secret. But I'll give you a little background on it. Maybe that's why you didn't hear about it. On September 20th, 1958, Izola Ware Curry, a poor and demented woman from Georgia, became a footnote in history. Just a literal sneeze away from being a major figure.

13:55 It says that day, the sometime housekeeper in short order could pull the ivory handle, seven inch letter holder, excuse me, plunge a seven inch letter holder into the chest of Martin Luther King Jr. while he was in Harlem for a book signing. She wanted to kill Kings, she said, because she believed he was a communist and was spying on her. Wow and such shame brought to the curry name. I'm trying to make amends. Wow, you know, I really don't think I've heard that story in a seven inch

14:40 I mean did it go all the way? What happened? I mean clearly he survived it. Well they had to remove the blade. I guess it broke off in him because they actually had to remove the blade. Talking point was he was a sneeze away from dying. If he just sneezed he'd have died. That's the story. Wow, wow, wow. The fact that she believed he was a communist way back in 1958. Which arguably he came from his dad was communist. He was surrounded by a lot of common, and we're gonna get into that more. Yeah Wow The more you learn the more you know Yeah, so we ain't giving the M5M or the mainstream media for the people that don't know what M5M is We're not gonna give you the mainstream media story here We're gonna get into the nooks and crannies of his life. It's beautiful. The people that surrounded him. Beautiful. I'm very excited I like this a lot

CHAPTER 08 / 33 Discussion

JFK, Nixon, and the 1960 Election Pivot

During the 1960 presidential campaign, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested on a trumped-up charge in Georgia. While Richard Nixon declined to intervene to avoid "grandstanding," John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy worked to secure King's release. This act of political maneuvering caused King's father, a lifelong Republican, to switch his support to Kennedy, significantly impacting the Black vote and the election outcome.

john f. kennedy· richard nixon· coretta scott king· 1960 election· civil rights

15:34 So let's get back to his father, Martin Luther King Sr. too. In October 1960, when Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested at a peaceful sit-in in Atlanta, Robert Kennedy telephoned the judge and helped secure King's release. Although King, Sr. had previously opposed Kennedy because he was a Catholic, he expressed his appreciation for these calls and switched his support to Kennedy. At this time, King, Sr. had been a lifelong registered Republican, and had endorsed Republican Richard Nixon. His son, Martin Luther King Jr. soon became a popular civil rights activist.

16:15 Taking inspiration from Mohandas Gandhi of India, he led non-violent protests in order to give African Americans greater rights. Wow! Mind blown! King was a Republican until JFK popped him out of jail, then he switched? So let me give you the background on this story because this is what I have to credit my black history professor, Dr. Mosley. Alright. Because when he dropped on me it this is what started me really on to questioning what the narrative is. Oh, this is a nice. I have one of these moments too. Yeah, that's beautiful when you remember the moment when your brain that's like your awakening like hold on a second this media is crap. Yeah, and the story is in 1960 he was arrested for some kind of license violation in Georgia and

17:09 And his father, Daddy King, that's what he was known as, was afraid that he was going to be lynched in jail. So he gets on the phone with his good friend Nixon and with the Kennedy people. And they were like, what kind of brokering? Who can get my son out of the jail? Wait a minute, with the Nixon and the Kennedy people? Yes, it's fantastic. They both want they both very people they they yes They both wanted to get the the black support. They were fighting for it. Oh my god. This is nice Thank you, so who was Kennedy was the one that

18:00 made the wheels turn and got King out of there and as a show of gratitude, Daddy King went on to sway his congregation and all his influence to Kennedy. And in the next clip, it's how Nixon turns back on Martin Luther King Jr. And it was devastating. The most devastating thing of all for Nixon, by the way, was an act of cowardice. When Dr. King was arrested on a totally trumped up charge, and put in a paddy wagon and in chains to be taken to Reesville Prison in Georgia. Coretta Scott King called both campaigns, the Kennedy campaign and the Nixon campaign, and said, would you please help get him out? The violence against African Americans in the South in Georgia at that time was horrible. And she really thought he was going to be killed. And the Kennedy people stepped up. And Nixon told his advisors that that would just be grandstanding to interfere with the legal process. And that was it.

18:52 King later said, we were in touch, I thought we were friends. And it showed a real moral lapse. And if Nixon had done it, the Kennedy people sent out a campaign flyer that said, no comment Nixon versus the candidate with a heart. And if Nixon had carried the black vote and he by the way he still got 32% of the black vote unlike when Republicans get like 2% of the black vote but he would have won he would have won probably would have won at least at least two more states and and everything would have changed. Wow wow wow that was cool. And this is where history kind of shifted at this point. Yeah in the time machine that you just put us in

CHAPTER 09 / 33 Discussion

Political Influence and Nixon's Visit to the King Family

The hosts examine the high-level political influence held by the King family, describing them as early "influencers" who could command the attention of presidential candidates. A clip describes Richard Nixon visiting Martin Luther King Sr.'s home following the assassination of MLK Jr. to pay his respects. Despite the 1960 political fallout, the two men reportedly shared a respectful, personal connection.

richard nixon· martin luther king sr· political influence· wake· atlanta

19:41 Wow. Martin Luther King became a huge civil rights leader. Daddy King swayed everybody within his influence to vote for Kennedy. Nixon lost. Wow. That's where we're at. Hey, you know, I got to thank you right here. We're only 20 some minutes into the show. You've already given me a history lesson, which I was completely unaware of. And it's so obvious, you know, like, where did it actually come from? And all you really see, all the imagery you get is I have a dream and he shot. That's pretty much it. I mean, to be honest about it, there's more, but that's what your brain, my brain remembers. So this is fantastic.

20:29 And these are not ordinary people. These people were elite in a way. In a way? I'm saying, they weren't hugely rich people, but their influence, and influence is one of the greatest things ever. He was like the OG Instagram influencer. Yes, okay, and that's why that's why I let out the show about calling him Greta Yes, yes, oh man was 15 year. He was 15 years old mm-hmm when he was being shaped and groomed. Wow. And his father saw a great opportunity by him getting arrested and basically saying, who has that kind of power to call both presidential campaigns and say, hey, which one of you guys can get my son out of jail? Yeah, I'm holding a contest. Want to see how you're doing? Wow. That's maybe some Margaret Sanger juice. Who knows where that came from? But definitely in the milieu, as we would say.

21:31 Yes, so the Nixon and Daddy King connection was so strong that he really didn't even have hard feelings towards Daddy King as we'll hear in this next clip. Nixon visited Martin Luther King Sr. Upon arriving at Martin Luther King Sr.'s home, there was a wake light atmosphere taking place. There must have been 50 or 60 people there enjoying food and talking with the King family and trying to help them cope with what had happened to their son.

22:12 Mr. Nixon walked in, walked up immediately up to Dr. King Sr. And when Dr. King Sr. saw Mr. Nixon, the two embraced. I remember being kind of behind Mr. Nixon and seeing Dr. King Sr. patting Mr. Nixon's back. I assume Mr. Nixon was doing the same with Dr. King Sr. He talked with the family there, with Mrs. King, with a number of their friends, and then we got back into the car and we headed to the airport. Wow. Shame. Just no shame. Let me go work the crowd during the wake. The Clintons do that very well now, actually.

CHAPTER 10 / 33 Discussion

Media Dramatization of the Civil Rights Movement

The civil rights movement is described as a calculated media production designed to dramatize social issues for a national audience. Activists like John Lewis intentionally put themselves in harm's way in places like Selma, Alabama, to ensure violent responses were captured by television cameras. This strategy successfully reached white Americans in the North by highlighting the "good versus evil" narrative of the struggle.

john lewis· selma· the race beat· hank libinoff· media coverage

23:04 And just for context, that was post the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. I just want to make sure people understood that. So we have to do a little throwback clip and just remind people, maybe for the new listeners may not have heard this, about the relationship between the media, MLK, and the civil rights movement. As a story, the civil rights movement had it all. Good versus evil. Drama. Social upheaval. But at first, America's major media ignored it, especially in the South. It was our responsibility to find a way to dramatize the issue. Congressman John Lewis says that the movement's leaders realized to bring change, they needed to reach white Americans. How did you do that? As a movement,

23:57 We literally put our bodies on the line. The influence on the civil rights coverage. Hank Libinoff co-wrote The Race Beat, a book about the media and the movement. Well race was a big story in the South beginning in the 40s and 50s it's just that no one knew about it. Finally by 1957 major northern newspapers discover the drama and the story. How do you feel about integrated passengers? The television networks followed. Even major southern media paid attention. to the open hatred. You've got to keep your white and black separate. And the violent response to peaceful protest. If you're going to beat us, beat us in the light of day. Beat us while the camera's on. This was Selma, Alabama, 1965, among the bloodied John Lewis. American people could not stand it. To see young children and old women

24:53 Been knocked down by fire hoses and chased by police dogs Wow another interesting piece of the puzzle of course John Lewis Didn't he just die he's I think yeah, he's dead and I'll allow you coming is sick cuz sometimes I get them mixed up myself right and it's terrible but No, maybe it's the other way around and now I make now I feel bad about it I do too sorry about that but I just want to make the point that- No, John Lewis is sick. Elijah Cummings passed away. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. So they were putting on a production. No kidding. I mean, that's the total show. And this is the tactic they use to draw attention to the movement. Right. But the movement, as we heard, had basically already been co-opted by politics.

26:00 by politics and other influences. So there's multiple people, I mean, he, Martin Luther King is probably has one of the greatest voices ever. What is called the Southern Baptist voice that politicians use when they go down South. You heard Hillary Clinton use it. It's really the Martin Luther King voice. Totally. Obama uses it. I mean, this is just... This is not who we are! Right. So that, just his voice alone made people want to co-opt him and steer him in different directions. Yeah, it was an incredible brand. I mean, an all-around multimedia brand with the iconic voice and his speech pattern, everything. Just total brand.

CHAPTER 11 / 33 Discussion

Bayard Rustin and the March on Washington

Bayard Rustin is identified as the primary architect and organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Despite his effectiveness, Rustin remained in the background due to his homosexuality and past political affiliations. Senator Strom Thurmond famously attacked Rustin on the Senate floor, citing a 1953 arrest in Pasadena, California, to discredit the civil rights movement.

bayard rustin· march on washington· strom thurmond· pacifism· civil rights organizer

26:56 And a very young man. We can't forget this. He is a very young man. I mean, he was born in 1929. So in the 60s, he was only 31 years old. And the 50s, you know, I mean, so we're talking about just on the cusp of life, just understanding and before that, In the 50s, he was being shaped, one by his father and next by this next man. We talked about him on previous shows, Mr. Bayard Rustin, MLK's organizer. August 28th, 1963, a quarter of a million Americans gathered in Washington, demanding that Congress put an end to officially sanctioned racism.

27:40 without bedresting as the organizer. The March on Washington would have been like a bird without wings. It was a sea of humanity. He had the ability to pull people together. He was able to reach out to hundreds and thousands of people all across America. Everybody from the NACP to the Protestant, Catholic, and Jews, he brought us all together. I do remember this guy.

28:41 So Bayard Rustin was an openly gay... Right, okay, I remember now. So put that in context, you have a deep Southern pastor from a family of pastors dealing with and being steered by Bayard Rustin, but that wasn't the real issue they had with Bayard. The issue they had with Bayard was his open dealings with communist factions. And Bayard was one of the ones that pushed

29:22 MLK to really go nonviolent because there was it was captioned in a scene in a movie called Boycott and it's well documented as well where Bayard came to visit MLK and MLK had armed guards around the house. And Bayard was like, how can you preach nonviolence but you have armed guards around your house? Which I have no problem. You could be nonviolent and still be about self-defense. I mean those two things are Yeah, exactly right, but he pushed him to be a pacifist really like No guns, no guns so hmm, but Bayard had a checker past himself and we'll get into a little later, but I

30:17 Let's listen to a little bit more on his background, civil rights pioneer. and revolutionary in the fight for civil rights. Bayard Rustin served as a trusted advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery bus boycotts, but he's better known for organizing the iconic 1963 March on Washington. The one man in America who could do it did it, and that's why it happened. It had an architect. His name was Bayard Rustin. But in a time when intolerance ran high, Rustin stood out for more than just his work on civil rights.

30:52 It was just one of these facts of life. Bayard is gay, he doesn't hide it. I said to somebody once that he never knew there was a closet to go into. Bayard had been attacked both for his homosexuality and his old political views. Strom Thurmond did it on the floor of the United States Senate. Thurmond referenced Rustin's 1953 arrest on a public sex charge. The senator is interested in attacking me because he is interested in destroying the movement. He will not get away with this. And Strom Thurmond was a nice character too. Yeah, he's a piece of work. He's a real piece of work.

CHAPTER 12 / 33 Discussion

Bayard Rustin's Communist Ties and Socialist Leadership

The discussion shifts to Bayard Rustin's involvement with the Young Communist League and his eventual leadership of the Socialist Party in the United States. While his sexuality was a point of public scandal, the hosts argue his communist ties were the primary reason he was viewed as a liability by other civil rights leaders. J. Edgar Hoover used these affiliations to justify intense surveillance of the movement.

bayard rustin· communist party· young communist league· socialist party· j. edgar hoover

31:39 Bayard Rustin was really kind of the Steve Bannon architect in the background of Martin Luther King Jr. Yes, and to give credit, he was the architect of the 63 march on Washington. Right. He had a huge role in the bus boycotts, but he didn't have that charisma that King had. Right. And that's what they said a couple of clips ago. Everybody spoke at the March on Washington, but MLK set it on fire. And that's something that Bayard didn't have. And they want to play up this thing about Bayard being gay. You know, that was the reason why he met. No, it was his political affiliations. But just for a little background, we're going to get into Bayard's arrest. Though I was extremely fond of him, I knew that he

32:41 was interested in meeting lots of other people and occasionally they turned up in my bed when I wasn't expecting them. FBI field report. On January 21st, 1953, Rustin was arrested by the police department in Pasadena, California as a suspected sexual pervert. He was charged with lewd vagrancy and sentenced to 60 days in the county jail. That was pretty fast news for the pacifist community that Bayard had been arrested in Pasadena. All the other arrests he'd had were on grounds of principle, but this was an arrest where he knew he was wrong. I don't mean morally wrong because it was a sexual encounter. I mean it was stupid to get arrested on the backseat of a car with two guys in a public place and he knew this.

33:35 So, so, what, oh man, this is why Jeffrey Epstein had so much power is that in America in particular, not even Europe so much, but in America, it's always the sex stuff that brings you down. I don't care if you're CEO, I don't care if you're, you know, if you're Martin Luther King or if you're his mentor or if you're the president, the sex stuff always brings people down in America. And that's the point why I'm bringing this up because it didn't bring him down. Right. They knew it. They knew what was going on. Yeah. Southern Baptist preacher. I think they were Baptist quote 99.9% sure. Southern Baptist preachers knew who Bayard was, but he has so much juice and was such a great organizer. They looked the other way. But that is still the Achilles heel.

34:30 For like a Strom Thurmond to bring that up. It doesn't help but it that's not what drove the wedge between MLK No, I got you. I understand that I understand that it's this next clip that really did it Some of you may have heard on your news and I know I heard it on the news this morning on PBS the public radio that Bayard Rustin has been awarded the president's Freedom Medal and Bayard Rustin is well known amongst individuals who've watched the Marxist movement in this country for years. Bayard Rustin, he was a black individual, joined the Communist Party, Young Communist League specifically, and cooperated with the Communists into his adult life. Then he became a socialist.

35:21 ultimately becoming the leader of the Socialist Party in the United States. After that, he went to work with Martin Luther King to form organizations and became a very big leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He actually was the primary organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Wow, cool. It was the fact that he was a communist because we got to put this in perspective. The 50s, 60s, well going back to the 40s, being a communist or a socialist at that time was... That was the worst thing ever. It was the worst thing ever, especially with Mr. J. Edgar Hoover.

CHAPTER 13 / 33 Discussion

Danny Rubin and the Communist Role in Civil Rights

Danny Rubin, former National Youth Secretary of the Communist Party, discusses the party's role in financing and organizing buses for civil rights marches. Rubin claims the party had a significant influence on early activists, including Rosa Parks, who was active in the Southern Negro Youth Congress. J. Edgar Hoover labeled Rubin one of the most dangerous men in America due to his influence on youth.

danny rubin· communist party usa· youth march· rosa parks· j. edgar hoover

36:04 breathing down your neck. And that's why they were like, we don't need that kind of attention, Bayard. You know, what you do in parked cars with two men in broad daylight, that's one thing. But to be an open-out communist? No, that's no deal. But the influence, I would presume, had definitely rubbed off on King to some degree. It must have. And not only King. Okay, so let me just set up this next clip. This is from Mr. Danny Rubin. He was the National Youth Secretary of the Communist Party, a civil rights activist, and once called the most dangerous man in America to American youth by J. Edgar Hoover. He's gonna speak, yeah, that's a hell of a resume right there. He's gonna speak on Rosa Park and the bus movement.

37:02 And a couple years later, we went to them and asked them to help finance these buses of young people to the Youth March in support of the Supreme Court decision. They did it. That's how we were able to bring 2,000 young people to D.C. What else? Oh, so I'm giving a picture. This is the stuff closest to 60 that led up to it. And of course there was Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Montgomery, I forget what they called it, association, something association.

37:55 And we had a role in those things. Rosa Parks was active in the Southern Negro Youth Congress. People knew her. She was not a party member, but after she became a heroine, she was, you know, friendly. Well, maybe this is a good point for you to mention the Highlander Folk School. Maybe this is a good time for you to mention the Highlander Folk School. Yeah, I intend to. Let me just finish this. Now is not a good time to mention the Highlander Folk School, but we'll get there. So a little background on Rosa Park, because what we're doing is all the people surrounding N. King's sphere. In his orbit, yeah. Yeah, in his orbit.

CHAPTER 14 / 33 Discussion

Rosa Parks and the Selection of Claudette Colvin

The hosts discuss how Rosa Parks was strategically chosen to be the face of the Montgomery bus boycott over 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Colvin had refused to give up her seat nine months earlier, but activists felt she was not the right "cast" for the movement because she was dark-skinned and allegedly pregnant. Parks, a trained activist who attended the Highlander Folk School, was deemed more marketable for the legal challenge.

rosa parks· claudette colvin· clifford durr· montgomery bus boycott· highlander folk school

38:50 Miss Rosa Parks She was friends and occasional seamstress for mr. Clifford and Virginia dirt D U R R. Have you ever heard of him? No, okay. I'm gonna Yes, yes, first of all, he's a role scholar so Okay, gotcha Okay, and this is this is what I dug up on them. It says Ms. Parks was also friends and a cable seamstress for Mr. Clifford and Virginia Durer, white upper crust New Deal progressives who have been active in civil rights efforts. He was a lawyer. He as a lawyer and she as a volunteer. Mrs. Durer encouraged and put money up for Mrs. Parks to attend a 10 day

39:45 interracial workshop during the summer of 1955 at the Highlander Folk School. Wait a minute, wait a minute. No, this doesn't work. Rosa Parks was just a woman who was tired of sitting in the back of the bus. You can't tell me she went to some training camp. So the narrative goes. She just goes to some training camp all of a sudden. Oh, Moe, what are you doing? It gets juicier. You're ripping the universe apart. A training center for union and civil rights activists in rural Tennessee. It says, uh, Dirk, uh, let me see. It says he and gray prepared an appeal conviction for Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old African-American woman charged for violating Montgomery's bus segregation laws in March, 1955. Right? She was the OG.

40:38 She was the original Rosa Parks. But it says here, I'm continuing to read, it says activists decided that hers was not the case to challenge, not to use to challenge the law. Doesn't that sound familiar to Brown versus Board of Education? How they pick which cases they were going to use? Of course. Okay, I continue. Wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on. Did Claudette not look right for the part? You know, there's reasons for this. She was dark-skinned. Uh-huh. It was rumored that she was pregnant at 15 years old. So she didn't pass the paper bag test, so to speak.

41:19 And she did pass the communist test. Right. Where I was at. Durer was there for a ready in December 1955 when police arrested Rosa Parks for refusing to give her seat to a white man. So the lawyer for Claudette Coven, his best friends and cool with Rosa Parks, they push Claudette Coven to the side and Rosa Parks end up I'm tired, my feet hurt, I'm gonna sit down on this bus. And then they end up taking the lawyer, Gray, took the federal court litigation, took on the federal court litigation challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance. So that's how it happened. Wow. Now tell me what you just heard, because I know I said a lot. Well, so what I just heard is that

CHAPTER 15 / 33 Discussion

Claudette Colvin's Account of the Bus Incident

A clip features Claudette Colvin describing her 1955 arrest in Montgomery, Alabama. She recounts feeling the spirits of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth holding her in her seat as white passengers and the bus driver demanded she move. The hosts reiterate that despite her genuine stand for justice, she was bypassed by movement leaders in favor of the more "upstanding" Rosa Parks.

claudette colvin· harriet tubman· sojourner truth· montgomery· 1955

42:19 A lot of these, there's just a lot of connection between communism, between elitists, politicians, etc. right down to Rosa Parks not being the story that we've, I think we've all been told regardless of color, I would hope that you know, you can get some special deal on that. where really, you know, she was a trained activist and they took an existing story, an existing case, and recreated it, maybe even with more people being complicit. The thing of course that, and I know they're gonna lead to this, I think, is ultimately a lot of what happened with King brought an incredible awareness and goodness to America through violence and through other, not necessarily by King, but there was just a lot of shit going on

43:10 The question is, was it always politically motivated? That's the mind-boggling part. To him, I believe not. To him, I think in his heart, and this is why I want to make this clear to the people, I think he came from an honest place of wanting to do something for his people. But that's why I'm focusing not on him. Have you noticed I really haven't talked much about him, right? I'm talking about the people around outside influences that are trying to steer him. Whether it's by proxy because Mr. Durr, I'm sure said, wow, that King guy, Rosa, you know, you need to latch on to him. And you know, we're gonna, we're gonna pay for you to go to this Highlander folk school, which you're gonna get to that in a minute.

43:58 Yeah, they pay for her to go there. And she just did the exact same thing that Claudette Colvin did, who Dura represented. But they said, no, Claudette, you're not right for the role. And go back to what we said about the civil rights movement being a production, a TV production. Right on. And I said right on. I'm sorry. Right on, right on. Right on, right on. So I actually dug up a clip Ms. Claudette Colvin speaking. That day when the bus driver asked me to get up, I had this feeling come over me. It felt like Harriet Tubman was holding me down. Hands were holding me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth hands were holding me down on another shoulder. And I was glued to the seat and I could hear the white passengers saying, she got a mother.

44:58 She gotta move. That's the law. She gotta move. And I felt like this is my time to take a stand for justice. My name is Claudette Colvin and in 1955 I refused to give up my seat to a white passenger on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks. I was 15 years old.

45:33 Okay, um acting as the casting director for the bus scene of the movie We're sorry Miss Claudette your voice is just not gonna cut it We need someone to be upstanding and sound the part you'll have to go. That's exactly what it was was cast and then you top Yeah, you top that on with Being allegedly pregnant that that wasn't gonna fly helpful not helpful We can try and cover it up with some CGI. Oh wait we didn't have that Now where we at okay now we can get back to the Highlander school yeah I want to hear about this but this is why J Edgar Hoover stayed on Martin Luther King so hard because he knew that

CHAPTER 16 / 33 Discussion

Highlander Folk School and Communist Influence

The Highlander Folk School in Tennessee is identified as a training center for civil rights activists with strong communist ties. Co-founder Miles Horton and MLK advisor Stanley Levinson were both scrutinized by the FBI for their links to the Communist Party USA. The hosts suggest that the school served as a hub for pushing radical ideologies under the guise of labor and civil rights organizing.

highlander folk school· miles horton· stanley levinson· j. edgar hoover· cpusa

46:25 He was a communist. He was as he was, you know, he was a pawn of many different factions And as I've stated previously Martin Luther King and attended a school known as the Highlander folk school him Ralph Abernathy and that lesbian Rosa Parks They used she was number two secretary at SCLC was really a young sister named Claudette Colvin who resisted getting up out of her seat on the bus and But they knew that they really couldn't use her because she was a 14 year old girl who was pregnant. So they decided to use Rosa Parks. I like how he says, that lesbian? Whoa! Well, I couldn't validate that, but I wasn't going to clip it out for just a sec. I use clips as they are. I don't dink around with them to manipulate them in any way. And if we do, then we let you know something was edited, of course. Yes, yes. But I just left it in there. But as he said, the Highlander School was known for its communist ties. One Mr. Miles Horton

47:28 He was an American educator, socialist, co-founder of the Highlander Folk School. Let's go down to, yeah, it says that, I'm reading from Wiki here, it said, the term communist was applied to Horton's teachings at Highlander School because the school's philosophy of bringing whites and blacks together in violation of segregation laws. No. No, not because you're bringing whites and blacks together because of your affiliations with actual known communists. And another man named Mr. Stanley Levinson. Now, Mr. Stanley Levinson was really close to Martin Luther King. He was even considered a ghost writer for Martin Luther King. And it said, although no evidence

48:16 Leveson having further ties to the CPUSA, Communist Party USA. The FBI used earlier communist history to justify wiretaps and bugs in his office and his offices and hotel rooms of Martin Luther King. It says FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had long associated the civil rights movement with communism. So that just lets you know of who they're dealing with. Now so that we know about the Highlander school and this rule school in Tennessee We're not talking about the internet age So to find out about some school in the middle of rural Tennessee that's pushing communist ideologies You had to know somebody that knew somebody right soon saying of course but

CHAPTER 17 / 33 Discussion

Origins of the Anthem We Shall Overcome

The iconic civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" was adapted at the Highlander Folk School from an old hymn and labor song. Musicians Pete Seeger and Guy Carowan changed the lyrics from "will" to "shall" and adjusted the tempo to make it suitable for marching. The hosts describe the song as a "trigger" or "meme" used to unify the movement and evoke specific emotional responses.

we shall overcome· pete seeger· guy carowan· highlander folk school· civil rights song

49:03 One of the little known facts that I even found out myself while doing this show, and I always love doing that when I find out something I didn't know, I like to share with other people, the Highlander School Song. It was in the civil rights struggle that Highlander became most famous, and famous for a song. How That Happened is a textbook example of Highlander working exactly the way it was designed. From the start, the Civil Rights Movement had songs, lots of songs, but it didn't have a song. One unifying and irresistible anthem that not only said who they were, but that musically expressed all their hope, determination, and spirit. Septima Clark, Pete Seeger, and a new young staffer named Guy Carowan began adapting an old hymn-turned-labor song that Zylphia loved to sing.

49:53 The word will was changed to shall. Some verses were fitted to the new movement's goals. And the tempo was changed so people could march to it better. It became, We Shall Overcome. We shall overcome. Deep in my heart I do believe. We shall overcome. Wow. So were those basically the lyrics to the song? They actually put the song together, because it was not Shell as Will. It said, we will overcome. So they slowed it down so you could march to it. And we spoke on previous shows how this is a meme. Actually, it's a trigger.

50:35 when they play a song because we had three different clips using the same song and mainstream media to really trigger you and take you back to a certain place. Right. Interesting. And it came out of this little school in Tennessee. Interesting. Outlander Folk School. Two white guys who put it together and released it. Just saying. Right. So, yeah. So I thought, I was like, wow. That's cool. That's very cool. So anyway, so now we understand that Of course, and you have to put it in context of, as you said, of the communism. We had that, you know, there was rumor of communists in Hollywood. There's just, you know, it was people getting blackballed. It wasn't just, you know, poor people trying to organize. I mean, it was the communists and the Communist Party was a problem in the United States of America. So enter FBI and J. Edgar Hoover, who was a total whack job

CHAPTER 18 / 33 Discussion

J. Edgar Hoover and Allegations of Black Ancestry

A segment from the Tony Brown Journal explores the theory that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had Black ancestry and was "passing for white." Author Millie McGee claims her research into her family lineage in Mississippi suggests Hoover was her cousin. The hosts discuss the possibility that Hoover's intense hatred for Black leaders like MLK and Marcus Garvey stemmed from self-hatred and a desire to hide his own origins.

j. edgar hoover· millie mcgee· secrets uncovered· passing for white· fbi

51:33 and had his own political ambitions and motivations and friends and foes. So this of course could only lead to nastiness. So we have the protagonist in the story, now we need the antagonist in the story, which is one Mr. J. Edgar Hoover. Well, the narrative is J. Edgar Hoover was this angry white man that wanted to take this successful young black man down. Well, not so fast. Tony Brown Journal was J Edgar Hoover Black. One of the most disliked white men in the black community allegedly was black himself.

52:13 That rumor doesn't surprise those who observe some of those blacks who pass over and become white bigots to cover their tracks or perhaps they just suffer from self-hatred. But it sent Millie McGee back to her family tree in Macomb, Mississippi to see if the man who became synonymous with the FBI and hatred of Martin Luther King Jr. was himself her cousin. who had gone through the special underground railroad built from the south to Washington, D.C. for blacks who looked white enough to live as white people. Thank you very much for being with me. Thank you for having me. Your book, Secrets Uncovered, J. Edgar Hoover Passing for White. And I said passing for white because there's a question mark. Why the title Passing for White? Question mark.

53:03 Alright, so J. Edgar Hoover, not only was he a secret cross-dresser, he was also black? Yes. Go figure, the longest brainy. That was not in my textbook. Of course not. But it doesn't work to the narrative of a... Anything, anything. Nothing, nothing. Nothing works with that story. This is so good. Let's let Tony Brown continue. Because when I first started writing the book, I did not realize that J. Edgar Hoover was actually in my lineage and I was told it was rumors in the family that he was and just rumors. So I knew that I had to put question mark until I did some research and made out for sure that he was a part of the family. Now this is a pretty serious charge.

54:03 and not because there's anything wrong with being black, but because of the other implications. Do you feel comfortable making this charge that J. Edgar Hoover, are you saying in effect he was black? Is that what you're saying? I'm saying, in fact, that I'm a black woman and he is in my family lineage. He is a part of my family. I don't necessarily like it. I didn't even know it when I started it. But when I found it out, I was looking for my great-great-grandmother, who is Emily Allen, who had babies by his ancestors.

54:43 And after doing my research, after two and a half years of research, I have without a shadow of a doubt in my heart and the documents showing that he is a part of our lineage. Oh man. So J Edgar Hoover was ADOS? Yes. Nice. He was a self-loathing, seems like a self-loathing black man. Now did he have a hatred of, was he known racist? Was he, is there examples of him hating? Oh yeah, he, oh you're okay Moe, don't have a stroke on me, I'm just asking a question. There was, there was a couple of data points. Okay.

55:31 I mean he hated MLK, he hated Marcus Garvey. That was the one where he really hated Marcus Garvey. So that member they called him the tiger. So if people want to go back and listen to the old archives, you know, you'll pick up on that. It's his funny thing that J. Edgar Hoover was the original Uncle Ruckus. You boycottin' baboon? Dance there, you goddamn chunky-cheeked monkey. Ruckus, what the hell is wrong with you? Now, now, now, Phil Roberts. Hold on a second. I triggered that clip. Why do I not know what this is, Uncle Ruckus? You don't know who Uncle Ruckus is? No. And remember, I lived in Europe during a number of formative years, but...

CHAPTER 19 / 33 Discussion

Uncle Ruckus and the Boondocks Parody

The hosts play a clip of the character Uncle Ruckus from the animated series *The Boondocks* to illustrate the concept of extreme self-hatred. In the satirical clip, Ruckus berates a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. and praises "the white man's infinite mercy." The hosts use this as a humorous but pointed comparison to the psychological profile they attributed to J. Edgar Hoover.

uncle ruckus· the boondocks· comedy central· satire· self-hatred

54:43 And after doing my research, after two and a half years of research, I have without a shadow of a doubt in my heart and the documents showing that he is a part of our lineage. Oh man. So J Edgar Hoover was ADOS? Yes. Nice. He was a self-loathing, seems like a self-loathing black man. Now did he have a hatred of, was he known racist? Was he, is there examples of him hating? Oh yeah, he, oh you're okay Moe, don't have a stroke on me, I'm just asking a question. There was, there was a couple of data points. Okay.

55:31 I mean he hated MLK, he hated Marcus Garvey. That was the one where he really hated Marcus Garvey. So that member they called him the tiger. So if people want to go back and listen to the old archives, you know, you'll pick up on that. It's his funny thing that J. Edgar Hoover was the original Uncle Ruckus. You boycottin' baboon? Dance there, you goddamn chunky-cheeked monkey. Ruckus, what the hell is wrong with you? Now, now, now, Phil Roberts. Hold on a second. I triggered that clip. Why do I not know what this is, Uncle Ruckus? You don't know who Uncle Ruckus is? No. And remember, I lived in Europe during a number of formative years, but...

56:24 Uncle Ruckus was like, this is new. Uncle Ruckus is from the show Boondocks and he is the most self-hating black man known to man. I mean, even though it's animation, he is known for his self-loathing so much so he said he has revertaligo. And he said he was originally born as a white man. I don't know. What is this air on? What channel is this on? Comedy you can catch it on I mean YouTube YouTube Hulu everything but it's comedy comedy show Okay, yes comedy central show. I'm gonna start the clip over. This is good

57:06 Stand still, you god damn chunky cheek monkey! Ruckus, what the hell is wrong with you? Don't interfere, Robert. This here's between me and Martin Luther, so-called king. Only king I know is Elvis Presley, God rest his soul. Oh, oh, you don't remember me? Well, I've been throwing bricks at your marching ass since 1959. And so, brothers and sisters, you know Hey shut the hell up you black son of a bitch! What's wrong with y'all? Thank God for the white man's infinite mercy, Martin Luther King! Cause if it was up to me, I'd

57:47 I'd unleash the hound and turn y'all niggas into puppy chow. I was happy at the back of the bus. Why'd you have to go mess with the natural order of things? I'd have shot you myself. But I realized a white man got better. I ain't stopped acting crazy. Man, this show is not nuts. Yeah, so that puts me in the mind of what J. Edgar Hoover was like. Got it. Got it. Okay. Alright, so moving forward, I thought I would add that in there. Thank you. Just to show you... Hold on, I gotta set my VCR now and make sure I catch it. Okay. Yeah. So just to show you how sinister

CHAPTER 20 / 33 Discussion

FBI Surveillance and the Suicide Letter to King

The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover conducted extensive surveillance on Dr. King, capturing recordings of his extramarital affairs, including one with singer Joan Baez. The FBI reportedly sent these tapes to Coretta Scott King and mailed an anonymous letter to Dr. King encouraging him to commit suicide to avoid public exposure. The hosts note that these documents were recently released as part of the National Archives' JFK files.

j. edgar hoover· coretta scott king· joan baez· fbi wiretaps· suicide letter

58:35 J Edgar Hoover was, let's listen to the US National Archives. Well, maybe some among the treasure trove of CIA and FBI files released by America's National Archive last week were documents relating to the assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King. The FBI's director at the time, Edgar Hoover, detested King and suspected him of being a communist. His spies discovered evidence to support that. But far more explosive for a man of God was King's sexual behaviour, which the FBI discovered was promiscuous and even divided some of his followers. It included an affair with at least one celebrity, the folk singer and former girlfriend of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez. The Reverend King would never see some of his dreams realised as he was shot dead just weeks after the FBI report was made in April 1968.

59:26 It's unclear why the archives released the King documents as they were not included in President Trump's order to publish files relating to the Kennedy assassination. Oh, this was recent, huh? So some Kennedy papers came out and in the Kennedy file was this Martin Luther King couple briefs. Interesting. So Martin Luther King, J Edgar Hoover would call Coretta Scott King and play tapes, not him personally, but the FBI would call and play tapes of Martin Luther King sexual escapade. Yeah, philandering, yes. Right. And I don't, you know what, if you're effective, your sex life doesn't really sway me one way or the other. That's why I really didn't get into that in this show. Yeah, but this is America. I told you this. It's always the sex stuff.

1:00:17 Right, you gotta keep it in your pants, right? So they tried to write this letter to King telling him to kill his cell because they were gonna expose him and brother Yeah, yeah, so that's how sinister J Edgar Hoover was So but where Martin Luther King really got himself in the trouble, it wasn't the civil rights movement It wasn't any of that and I wanted to read one quote that he was gonna use at the March on Washington. It says King had planned to cap his speech by exhorting people to go back to our communities as members of the International Association for Advancement of Creative Dissatisfaction, international. So he was on the globalist tip back then. Clearly. But he made a misstep.

CHAPTER 21 / 33 Discussion

MLK's Opposition to the Vietnam War

Dr. King's public opposition to the Vietnam War is identified as the moment he "pushed too far" and threatened the military-industrial complex. In his speeches, King highlighted the hypocrisy of Black and white soldiers dying together abroad for liberties they did not enjoy at home. He famously labeled the U.S. government "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today," a stance that alienated his former allies in the press and government.

vietnam war· military-industrial complex· hypocrisy· nonviolence· 1967 speech

1:01:14 And that's when he started talking against the Vietnam War. The guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia, which they had not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with a cruel irony. of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same school room. So we watch them in brutal solidarity, burning the huts of a poor village.

1:01:54 But we realize that they would hardly live on the same block in Chicago or Atlanta. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems, but they ask, and rightly so, what about Vietnam? They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems. And I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own

1:02:47 Government. Yeah, yeah. Now this to me shows that he was indeed very sincere because he saw the hypocrisy, spoke out about it, but underestimated a number of things including the military-industrial complex and just a whole... I mean we could do a whole nother show on that alone, but yeah that's clearly... it's like what? Okay King, now you've pushed us too far. And let's put it into context, he's saying these things about sending his people into a burning house. You have at this time, black people becoming more, they're getting tired of the nonviolent resistance and leaning more towards, if nothing else, self-defense of the Malcolm X mindset.

CHAPTER 22 / 33 Discussion

Media Backlash and the Third Rail of War

The hosts discuss how the media, which had previously praised King's nonviolent stance against Southern segregationists like Bull Connor, turned against him when he applied those same principles to the Vietnam War. King criticized the press for its inconsistency in condemning domestic violence while supporting the bombing of Vietnamese children. This shift marked a turning point where King became a target of the very institutions that had once amplified his message.

vietnam war· bull connor· jim clark· media war· nonviolence

1:03:40 So they were like, if King starts to talk self-defense and anti-war and Brian... Because he is effective. He's an effective speaker and motivator. But he didn't stop there. King continues on about the Vietnam War. America and most of its newspapers applauded me in Montgomery. And I stood before thousands of Negroes getting ready to riot when my home was bombed and said, we can't do it this way. They applauded us in the sit-in movement.

1:04:22 And we nonviolently decided to sit in at lunch counters. They applauded us on the freedom rides when we accepted blows without retaliation. Oh, the press was so noble in its applause and so noble in its praise when I was saying, be nonviolent toward Bull Connor. There's something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that will praise you when you say be nonviolent toward Jim Clark, but will curse and damn you when you say be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children. There's something wrong with that press. Yeah. Yeah. He touched that third rail and the fact that he,

1:05:12 Bit the hand that had been friendly to him in the media because he came at the press in that in that the clip We just pray yes, and and the context of that is the Vietnam War was the first media war it was mainly photojournalism, but there was also a lot of film coming in and that's when Americans first really saw the ugliness of war as it was being reported and But I'm sure it was good for the ratings for the media. Well, that's an important moment in television history. Yes, very good for the media. People are glued to it. We love war. So he had got to a point where he was like, OK, let me let me let me back up a little bit. So at this point, JFK has stepped in and Robert Kennedy has stepped in like King. We know who you're associated with. You've got to cut those people off.

CHAPTER 23 / 33 Discussion

Assassination of MLK and the James Earl Ray Narrative

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The official narrative identified James Earl Ray as the lone gunman who fired from a nearby rooming house bathroom. However, the hosts introduce skepticism regarding this account, noting that Ray's "three names" fit a typical pattern for alleged lone assassins in American history.

james earl ray· lorraine motel· memphis· 1968· ike pappas

1:06:10 because of the communist ties. And right after that, JFK was assassinated and MLK gives his views on JFK and MLK. The most devastating thing in Martin's life was the assassination of President Kennedy. He saw it as his own assassination. And he said, if they can't protect the president, our days are numbered. Yeah, right on yeah, I mean I said it again. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I can understand. Yeah, and he was exactly right Martin the King assassinated Eyewitnesses to the assassination say that dr. King left his room 306 at the Lorraine hotel just before dinner to get some air He walked over to the railing at this spot and noticing some friends below He leaned over and began to speak with them. I

1:07:10 Police say 205 feet away, in a window in a flop house, the assassin waited. He waited, police believe, in a bathroom down the hall from the room he rented but four hours earlier. To get a clear shot of his victim, the assassin apparently had to stand in the bathtub, leaning forward to brace his arms on the window ledge to steady his rifle. And this was the view he got. He fired a single shot, hitting his target squarely, and then he ran. Out of the bathroom and along the decrepit hallway, turning, he raced down the rickety wood stairs and out. One policeman said, he simply faded. Ike Pappas, CBS News, Memphis. And he was dead. Yeah. So...

1:07:56 But the story doesn't end there because the narrative was lone shooter, racist guy, Earl Ray, James Earl Ray, three names. Three names, we're always looking for three names. That's your typical- Three first names. You're right, it's a trifecta. That's really a good one. It is that your ultimate white supremacist Nazi hate guy has three first names. James Earl Ray. Yeah, let me guess. It wasn't him? Not according to Judge Joe Brown. Did he in fact assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King? And had he not died and his local attorney not died in close succession, it would have been my finding that he was not the gunman. That Remington 760 Game Master they've got in the Civil Rights Museum is not the murder weapon. It's not even close.

CHAPTER 24 / 33 Discussion

Judge Joe Brown on the MLK Murder Weapon

Judge Joe Brown asserts that the rifle on display at the Civil Rights Museum was not the weapon used to kill Dr. King. Brown claims a two-man hit team fired from a fire station dormitory, not the rooming house. He further explains that James Earl Ray never actually confessed to the murder but entered an "Alford plea," which allows a defendant to maintain innocence while accepting a plea deal in their best interest.

judge joe brown· remington 760· james earl ray· alford plea· memphis police

1:08:54 And it was a two-man hit team that killed him from the fire station dormitory It wasn't the flop house and it wasn't in those bushes. So yeah, I got into the deep details of dr King and that three or four year period that case was kicking around in front of me Wow Okay, two-person hit job is a very very very different story. Mm-hmm There was a thing called Operation Lantern Spike and Operation Chaos. So this is from the Cynthia McKinney's 2002 Martin Luther King Jr. Record Collection Act, which I love Cynthia McKinney. I think she does great work when she was actually into politics.

1:09:47 Yeah, yes, I remember it. She was fantastic. She kind of, she herself got threatened, I believe, and she left politics. Yeah, because she at Rumsfeld about, what was it, the little kids? I think it was the UN or somebody. I digress, but she questioned a lot of powerful people. Oh, about the babies in incubators? That was one of the, which was a total, that daughter of a Helen Knowlton PR Vice president was a total setup job just to get us into Iraq Yeah, yep, that was exactly it. So in this act, she said, describing her reasons for drafting the bill, McKinney stated, the truth for MLK assassination has never been totally revealed. The FBI program COINTELPRO, the CIA project Operation Chaos, and the Army Intelligence Operation Lantern Spy all worked together to prevent the rise of a black messiah and replace Martin Luther King Jr. with a clean Negro.

1:10:47 Well, we're going to get back to the clean Negro. Oh no! Okay, alright, alright. Yeah, we're going to get back there, but let's continue on with Judge Joe Brown. He didn't kill him. It's interesting, the homicide file for the Memphis Police Department reaches the same conclusion back in 1968. They entered their file in protest to the DA's office. Their conclusion was that Ray is not the gunman. He was not even in Memphis that day. We know conclusively where he was. So why do you think he got convicted for the murder? Well, he didn't get convicted. He pled guilty. You have to understand, though, the news media puts it out as he was the self-confessed killer of King. That's not true.

1:11:41 All through the transcripts, the entirety of the record, he never confessed and often he said, I never said I killed King. I didn't kill him. I'm pleading cause of Alford. That's A-L-F-O-R-D. It's a moderately old U.S. Supreme Court case and it says even if you are not actually guilty and you are pristinely innocent, you may plead guilty to the charge if you think that doing so is in your best interest. Wow, that's like the reverse of the Fifth Amendment. I'm gonna take the charge. That's... I'll jump on the grenade basically. And I know people make, some people, may be rolling their eyes like, come on Moe, here you go with your conspiracies.

CHAPTER 25 / 33 Discussion

1999 Civil Trial and Government Responsibility

In 1999, a civil trial in Memphis concluded with a jury finding that multiple government agencies were involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. The jury heard from 70 witnesses, including Lloyd Jowers, who claimed he participated in the plot. The verdict officially cleared James Earl Ray of being the shooter, though the hosts note that this significant legal outcome is rarely reported by the mainstream media.

lloyd jowers· civil trial· king family· conspiracy· memphis jury

1:12:35 Not yet. I thought it was kind of timely. Yeah, put that there on ice though. I'm gonna need it a little bit later. But the US government found responsible for MLK. But only 15 years ago, something else happened. Something that changed everything we knew about Martin Luther King's death. And yet, most people still don't know about it. 15 years ago, the only trial ever held concerning the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. was concluded. And no, it wasn't done in someone's basement under the cover of tinfoil hats. There wasn't anyone with the word Illuminati carved in their forehead. And no, the jury wasn't made up of beavers wearing bow ties. I

1:13:32 with others guilty of assassinating MLK in Memphis in 1968. After hearing from 70 witnesses, including Lloyd Jowers, who assisted the sniper and owned a Jim's Grill from which the shot was fired, the jury took less than an hour to decide that one multiple government agencies were responsible for the murder. Two, James Earl Ray, the man we've always been told pulled the trigger, had nothing to do with it. And three, the mainstream media is a f***ing stain on the soul of this country. Who was that? I like his rap.

1:14:08 That was for R.R.T. What is the guy's name? I'm sorry. Oh, I know the guy. Is that the Russian? Long black hair, dark hair. Yeah, the Russian guy. Long dark hair, goatee. Yeah, he kind of hates America, but he does it in a funny way. Yeah, but he brings up a good point. No, no. Mainstream media is a theme. Great point. No disagreement there, but this is kind of like the OJ trial with the civil trial, you know, where he's convicted in a civil trial So the King family, again, this is why this show exists, I didn't know this. So there was an actual guilty verdict that two government agencies were involved, let me guess. Multiple, not two, multiple. So it could be more than two. Let me go back to my notes.

CHAPTER 26 / 33 Discussion

Jesse Jackson and the Balcony Photo Discrepancy

The hosts analyze the iconic photograph of civil rights leaders pointing from the balcony of the Lorraine Motel immediately after the shooting. They argue that Jesse Jackson and others were pointing in the wrong direction based on the findings of the 1999 civil trial. This discrepancy is used to suggest that the immediate reaction was either confused or part of a staged narrative to misdirect attention from the actual sniper's location.

jesse jackson· lorraine motel· iconic photo· crime scene· memphis

1:18:18 It hurts to think about it, talk about it. What do you remember thinking at the time as all of this is going on? I remember... We were just saying that we cannot let one bullet kill a movement and we're going on to Washington and we did Now I gotta be honest with you Mo It was difficult for me to understand everything he was saying the middle part I got the beginning was very it was he was he showed talking about the picture of when MLK got shot well the reason why I played this clip was his account he's out there pointing at

1:18:56 In the wrong direction from where the trial that we just spoke about said the shots actually came from. Oh, it didn't come from that window y'all were pointing at you know the iconic picture where they're all yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. That was bullshit. Excuse my language. I hardly ever use that. That was complete bull cocky. Right? What are you pointing at Jesse? So the bullets didn't come from that you you said you were there and you heard the shots come Okay, you hear shots come from somewhere and you point in the wrong direction and everybody's pointing in the wrong direction. That's bull crap. Bull crap. And that's why I played that to catch him up in his own words. Now, Thurman. Yes, sir. Now we're going to get to allegedly, I have to say this, allegedly who killed Martin Luther King.

CHAPTER 27 / 33 Discussion

Allegations Against Jesse Jackson as an Infiltrator

Steve Coakley claims that Jesse Jackson was an infiltrator trained to replace Martin Luther King Jr. as the movement's leader. The hosts discuss how Jackson was promoted by media outlets like NBC despite King's reported distrust of him. While Ralph Abernathy was King's chosen successor, Jackson's lack of legal or tax interference—compared to other leaders—is cited as evidence of his potential cooperation with government interests.

jesse jackson· steve coakley· ralph abernathy· nbc· clean negro

1:19:56 by none other than Mr. Steve Coakley. Dr. is the one who was picked to replace Martin King, but Jesse is the one he trained. If you had spent all this time on putting him in place and you ain't got nobody else around Martin, now Andy was supposed to be shot with Martin, but Andy wasn't on the balcony. He was on the floor. So he didn't get it. Ralph was inside. So he didn't get it. Wait a minute.

1:20:50 Is this Martin Luther King discovering that Jesse Jackson was an infiltrator? Did I understand that? Yes, that's exactly what you understood. Oh! And that's from one Mr. Steve Coakley, the same one that brought us to the boulet on previous shows. And he fingered Martin Luther King as a boulet member. So it's not like he's team King, you know. No, no, it's not out of the realm for his overall thinking. Yeah, so and a little tidbit of information The story is all the people that were in on it didn't wear neckties that day I've heard this I have heard this one and I think that might have been put in a movie somewhere Yes, and another little tidbit. There's a story. There's an argument did Martin Luther King even die in

1:21:47 the scene of the assassination or was he killed in the hospital? Yeah, this is an ongoing argument that was actually going on yesterday and I found it quite entertaining that maybe he was, I didn't put that in the show but that is a conversation as well. Because he actually did, some people say he actually didn't succumb to his gunshot wounds. the kid in Washington DC. Has anyone really documented this story the way you've been unfolding it so far? Is this in any movie? Who's gonna fund it? I'm not being facetious, I'm just saying that... What am I thinking? Let's go back to the top of the show. What is Martin Luther King? He's the trigger to keep black people in control.

1:22:42 If you let these little nuances and humanistic properties of him come about, even to the burning house, yeah, no. That will ruin the effect of the trigger. I have a dream, be nonviolent, you know, every time, you know. Play along. Yeah, anytime people start getting riled up is is combat now, but let's let Steve Coakley continue on Now what's happening? NBC meet the press the most watched Sunday news program goes back to this moment that we're out teaching is a point of distrust and evidence of Martin's dislike to Jesse they go right back to that spot and

1:23:27 Put him right on Rockefeller's NBC Toss that ball right up and say Jesse now when I toss this ball up. I want you to stuff at home So he puts the circle around Jesse's head and a circle around Martin's head calls it close and says you were one of Martin's closest associates What did Martin King say to you tonight before he died? Oh Man, so the media was complicit in Actually Ralph Abernathy was Martin Luther King's right-hand man. Mm-hmm. And he was he was picked to be next in line. But he had tax problems. He even had, Jesse Jackson even had bigger tax problems than him. No, I was gonna say you get, you don't have tax problems. The IRS creates your tax problems and for some people they don't create the tax problems. And the story is that

CHAPTER 28 / 33 Discussion

The Bloody Turtleneck and Jackson's Rise

Following the assassination, Jesse Jackson appeared on television wearing a bloody turtleneck, claiming he had cradled Dr. King's head as he died. Other King associates have disputed this, stating Jackson was actually in the parking lot and fabricated the story for personal gain. The hosts compare this to Jacqueline Kennedy's blood-stained dress, suggesting Jackson used the tragedy to build his own legend as the movement's new face.

jesse jackson· bloody turtleneck· clout chasing· jackie o· media appearance

1:24:26 Jesse Jackson owed multiples of what Ralph Abernathy owed, but he wasn't bothered. So let's continue on with this conspiracy theory. I'm gonna have to say it like that and this is all alleged, but did Jesse Jackson set up MLK? Despite his official inclusion on King's staff, King soon found himself unimpressed with aspects of Jackson's personality He was especially troubled with Jackson's reflective ability to escalate encounters with government officials, police departments, and innocent bystanders. Now as King lay dying on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, Jackson claims and has claimed since 1968 that he was the last to speak to King.

1:25:13 and cradle King's head as he died. Jackson then appeared on Chicago television the next day wearing a bloody turtleneck that he said was stained with the blood of the fallen civil rights leader. King associates have always challenged Jackson's self-described role on that day as fabricated and distasteful. Jackson in reality was in the parking lot below. Critics also claim that Jackson went so far as to wipe King's blood on his shirt for the sole purpose of going on television to build his own legend. Oh man, he pulled a Jackie O.

1:25:54 Enlighten me. Jacqueline Onassis, wife of John F. Kennedy, had, you know, allegedly parts of his brains on her dress and she appeared in several photographs. Oh really? I didn't know this. Yeah. But yeah, he did pull a Jackie O because the word was nobody talked to the media. Nobody, that was what was going around. He puts blood on his shirt, rolls right out there, Yeah, I'm the right-hand man to Martin Luther King and history goes on. I mean even if it did happen, if it was the turtleneck, it's the next day and he's wearing it? Still wearing it. It's highly inappropriate. That is the ultimate clout chase of, to use a modern term. I mean, there's biblical comparisons for what he did with that. But the sad thing is

CHAPTER 29 / 33 Discussion

Death of Alfred Daniel (AD) King

Alfred Daniel (AD) King, the younger brother of MLK Jr., died in a mysterious drowning in his home swimming pool on July 21, 1969. His death occurred just 15 months after his brother's assassination. Although officially ruled an accident, the hosts highlight the suspicious timing and the fact that AD King was poised to continue his brother's civil rights work.

alfred daniel king· ad king· drowning· 1969· civil rights legacy

1:26:53 The deaths didn't stop for the King family. And the King and the Kennedy families have so much in common and it's kind of sad. Adam, these next two clips just to quiz you. Did you know they assassinated MLKs? A mysterious drowning left a family in shock and a King's legacy lost in the shadows. Was his death an accident or murder? Alfred Daniel King. Love must be expanded not only to our obvious enemies but to those within ourselves. The younger brother of Martin Luther King Jr. was set to continue his brother's legacy. But just 15 months after Martin was assassinated. Sad news for all of our fellow citizens and people who love peace all over the world.

1:27:54 And that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight at the camp. AD's life was cut short too. In this groundbreaking television event, we reveal the story of AD King. His legacy, his leadership, his death. I'm Ed Gordon. We'll tackle that question on the 50th anniversary of the King assassination with new details on the death of AD King. Wow. No, no, that, no, I didn't know that. What I do know is that we need to have some kind of music, you know, some kind of scary music or something to really draw you in. Otherwise you don't understand the direness of the situation. So on, on July 21st, 1969, nine days before his 39th birthday, Alfred Daniel William King,

CHAPTER 30 / 33 Discussion

Assassination of Alberta King and the Troop

On June 30, 1974, Dr. King's mother, Alberta King, was shot and killed inside a church by Marcus Wayne Chennault. Chennault was allegedly part of a group called "The Troop," which the hosts link to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and government programs like COINTELPRO. The hosts argue that the systematic killing of the King family members points to a broader effort to dismantle their influence.

alberta king· marcus wayne chennault· black hebrew israelites· cointelpro· wright patterson air force base

1:28:57 Martin Luther King's brother was found dead in his swimming pool at his home. Mm-hmm. I said the cause of death was listed as accidental, but people don't see it that way. I can understand and you're right the parallels with the Kennedys is crazy. But it doesn't stop there. Did you know they assassinated Martin Luther King's I was sitting in the back and that's why I got a better look at him. Because as he was shooting, it was such a shock. I was standing there, I couldn't believe it. I thought it was something like a, you know, a toy gun with blinks or something. Down the front or in the middle of the concrete? Well, after he shot, you know, I seen some people falling. Then I knew then, I knew, I said, yeah, he's shooting for real, you know. Then this gentleman says, fall to the floor. And I fell and started crying. Everyone started falling and falling.

1:29:51 Okay, who was that? On June 30 of 1974, Alberta King, Martin Luther King's mother was assassinated inside a church by Marcus Wayne Chennault, a 23-year-old black man from Ohio who had adopted an extremist version of the theology, black Hebrew Israelites. And that comes forward, fast forward to now.

1:30:38 with that we heard that group in the news. Uh, with the uh, yes. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. It's the, it's the kids, uh, the kids with the MAGA hats who were at the pro-life rally and they were being a, uh, yelled at by the black Israelites and I believe the shooting of a Jewish deli or store in New Jersey. Yep, and the rabbi killing. And the rabbi killing, right. Yeah, but hold on. Theremin. Oh, hold on. I just put it in the case, man. Hold on a second. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Here it is. Mr. Wayne Chennault. Yes. He was a little person, but not only that, he was allegedly part of a group of black assassins called the troop. The troop was ran out of Wright's, Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Uh, his, uh,

1:31:40 Name our code name was little professor They targeted it, but they were they were targeted for assassination most of most American leading black religious and spiritual leaders straight out of COINTELPRO and Project Chaos Wow That's pretty mind-blowing. Oh man, I love that. Had you heard of these two family members being killed? No. Well, why not? Maybe, well why not is obvious because what was the quote about the M5M? You know. A stain. A stain, exactly. His mom

CHAPTER 31 / 33 Discussion

Media Silence on King Family Tragedies

The hosts discuss why the assassinations of MLK's mother and brother are rarely mentioned in the media, contrasting this with how other tragedies are exploited for political narratives. They compare this silence to the case of Seth Rich, noting that when the media ignores a story that fits their usual agenda, it serves as a "red flag" for deeper involvement or a cover-up.

seth rich· gun violence· media narrative· exploitation· red flags

1:32:25 being killed in a church vaguely, vaguely, vaguely, but not as an assassination, never characterized as such. I never thought, I don't know if there was ever any trials or none of that. No, absolutely not. Which is of course why I show up every week. So I can be schooled. And you would think that the women's right movement would latch on to her as a, you know, not only did King die, you know, his mom, you know, You know how they do exploit it. They were exploited in some kind of way, you know. But it's not been exploited ever though to my knowledge. Whenever I see that.

1:33:02 Yeah, that's when they don't exploit something that is a that's a tell huge red flag to me. Yeah It's same as the one with the guy asked brought his name or I mean brought him up early But not by name the kid in DC that got killed by the work for the DNC Seth Rich Sephrit I always forget his name the fact when they didn't use him as a example of gun violence and was pretty telling. Well, it was also the wrong gun. It wasn't some scary looking AR-15. It was a .22 pistol. But yeah, your point is totally right. Well, it was in Washington, D.C., a gun-free zone. And it was a white guy. And it was a white guy. I mean, obviously, you know. Oh, yeah, that's true. White guy getting gunned down needs some news attention. But one of your own, one of your D.C. DMC workers, so I mean, it just struck me that they never... Nah, we don't care.

1:33:59 No, no tragedy goes unexploited. Yes, correct. So I know this has been a rough ride. No, it's been a beautiful ride. It's been the roller coaster of my life. But I found this quirky little clip and I thought it was a good way to end it because it was just No, this has been like a, I don't know, very sad show in a way, but very enlightening, informative, enlightening and informative as well. Accidentally honored on MLK Day. Tonight's Factor Fiction is brought to you by America's Finest Carpet.

1:34:37 In tonight's Factor Fiction, we're looking into a story involving a stunning Martin Luther King Day mistake. As the story goes, a plaque made for a 2002 MLK Day celebration in Florida gave thanks to Dr. King's assassin, James Earl Ray. And amazingly, this one is true. For their annual MLK Day celebration, the people of Lauderhill, Florida invited actor James Earl Jones to be their featured speaker. In appreciation, they ordered a plaque and were horrified when it came with an inscription thanking James Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive. AdPro, the company that made the plaque, claimed the error was an innocent, albeit stupid, mistake. The plaque was corrected in time for the celebration. Man, that's horrible.

CHAPTER 32 / 33 Discussion

James Earl Ray Plaque Error and Outro

The show concludes with a "fact or fiction" segment about a 2002 MLK Day plaque in Lauderhill, Florida, that accidentally thanked "James Earl Ray" instead of the intended speaker, James Earl Jones. The hosts use this dark irony to wrap up their discussion on the hidden facts of King's life. They sign off by encouraging listeners to pay attention to everything and return for the next episode.

james earl ray· james earl jones· lauderhill florida· mlk day· mistake

1:33:59 No, no tragedy goes unexploited. Yes, correct. So I know this has been a rough ride. No, it's been a beautiful ride. It's been the roller coaster of my life. But I found this quirky little clip and I thought it was a good way to end it because it was just No, this has been like a, I don't know, very sad show in a way, but very enlightening, informative, enlightening and informative as well. Accidentally honored on MLK Day. Tonight's Factor Fiction is brought to you by America's Finest Carpet.

1:34:37 In tonight's Factor Fiction, we're looking into a story involving a stunning Martin Luther King Day mistake. As the story goes, a plaque made for a 2002 MLK Day celebration in Florida gave thanks to Dr. King's assassin, James Earl Ray. And amazingly, this one is true. For their annual MLK Day celebration, the people of Lauderhill, Florida invited actor James Earl Jones to be their featured speaker. In appreciation, they ordered a plaque and were horrified when it came with an inscription thanking James Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive. AdPro, the company that made the plaque, claimed the error was an innocent, albeit stupid, mistake. The plaque was corrected in time for the celebration. Man, that's horrible.

1:35:25 Thank you James Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive. Oh man. Hey James Earl Ray do the CNN voice. Oh man. Well Mo, man this was this was great and yes it is in a way it's sad but no not really because look at where we are look at what's taking place right now none of this conversation might have ever happened without MLK Without I mean, obviously events unfold and they have to unfold in a certain way for the future and you know the current to take place at all, but it's great because we get to learn from this story and hopefully look at lots of people with fresh eyes and

1:36:14 Jesse Jackson for sure. That was the goal, is to give you information that the mainstream media just refuses to let out even though it's well documented, it's court cases, it's not you know, tenfold hat, you know, Dorito dust thing, you know, that, you know, that meme that are tropes they put out there for conspiracy theories. These are real facts. There are some dots to connect, but as I always say, pay attention to everything and the truth will reveal itself. And we will return in a week's time. Remember us at mofundme.com. We'll see you in a week, everybody. Bye-bye.

CHAPTER 33 / 33 Discussion

End of Show Music: Mr. Dream Merchant

The episode ends with the song "Mr. Dream Merchant," a soul track that plays through the final segments. This serves as the musical sign-off for the program following the hosts' final remarks on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and their call for listener support.

mr. dream merchant· soul music· outro· episode 22· mo fax

1:37:02 Hey, hey, Mr. Dreamer child The thing that's been on you Hey, hey, Mr. Dreamer child Bring her back to me and make my dreams come true Baby, baby When I said goodbye to my love

1:37:45 I didn't mean to make her cry I didn't realize about love Now I need about my son Hey, hey, Mr. Emerging Make my dream come true make them come true yeah oh lord yeah yeah Mr. Dream Merchant would you please please do me a favor you should happen to see my baby somewhere would you please tell I'm waiting with open arms would you please make my dreams come true baby baby baby baby

1:38:53 Mr. Dreamer, everything is on you. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I need her, I need her, I need her, yeah.