J. Edgar Hoover kept secret dossiers on almost everyone with a public face, and many who didn't. He hated MLK and anything to do with the civil rights movement. The revelation that the MLK photographer was an FBI informant only goes to show the efforts he made to try and destroy the image of MLK. I don't think he succeeded. We should not hide from history.
Jerry <<Subject: Re: OT: Civil Rights Photographer Unmasked as Informer Message-ID: <aanlktimcxoqodvjoznjqdrl3rbvs5jwjdraqj=xpt...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 2010/9/15 Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com>: > I agree. ?I don't understand why the newspaper insisted on > investigating and reporting on this either. ?He was a good > photographer, and took some great images of the civil rights movement. > ?I am confident nothing he told the FBI harmed Martin Luther King or > the movement. ?Why drag it up now? I guess maybe because of the fact that being an informer is at least questionable. Also it may be something to do with the history of how the FBI tried to undermine the civil rights movement. Why not drag it up now? Would any other time be better?>> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
