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Between the height of his popularity and his assassination in April of 1968, Jay Edgar

Hoover and the FBI did everything that they could to discredit and take down Martin Luther King

Jr. They followed, wiretapped, threatened, bugged, and blackmailed him in a relentless

campaign to dethrone him as the head of the Civil Rights Movement.

I'm Andre and this is the Predicted History Podcast.

You can go to the FBI's website right now and find an entire vault of FBI records declassified

Memorandums, notes, quotes, emails, well there wasn't email, but typewriter notes.

For the public to see all of this is public information, 200 plus pages worth of the

FBI's illegal undertakings as it pertains to Martin Luther King Jr.

Throughout the 1950s and most notably the 1960s, Jay Edgar Hoover and the FBI did as much

as they could to make life absolutely miserable for Martin Luther King.

The FBI was most alarmed about King because of the success that he had and his ability

to galvanize people toward his cause and to his side.

Keep in mind the things that Martin Luther King were doing at the time were admirable,

at least to me and anybody else with any kind of positive moral compass.

We are all familiar with the famous speeches that I have a dream speech and the I've been

to the mountaintop speech were familiar with the Montgomery bus boycott and his influence

on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act as well.

But Martin Luther King also won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

He became the youngest person to do so at age 35.

He launched the Poor People's Campaign demanding $12 billion in economic aid and guaranteeing

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