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Martin Luther King Cheated On His Wife & Other Lesser-Known Facts About The Civil Rights Leader...
International Business Times ^ | 1/21/13 | Jeff Stone

Posted on 01/19/2014 10:57:32 PM PST by boknows

Edited on 01/20/2014 1:04:31 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

One of the easiest things to forget about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is that he was just a person. One of the most influential people of the 20th century, no doubt, but a person with unique flaws and quirks that made him different from the Christ-like figure he’s often portrayed as today.

At the time of King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, he was still the personification of the civil rights movement in the United States. But those near him said he appeared to have lost a step, in part because of conflicts in his inner circle of advisers and a growing estrangement from his former ally President Lyndon B. Johnson over the Vietnam War.

Five years after his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, though, and 40 years before the first African-American  became president, King stepped onto the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.

King was on the balcony sneaking a cigarette

When racist assassin James Earl Ray aimed his rifle sight at King, he almost certainly saw the civil rights leader doing something King's children never saw him doing: smoking. King was a lifelong smoker, although very few – if any – pictures exist as proof because he never smoked in public. King didn’t want his family to know about the habit.

After King was shot, his advisers stopped the bleeding while one of them, Dr. Billy Kyles, removed a pack of cigarettes from King’s pocket.

The Kennedy brothers allowed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to wiretap King

Excerpt, more at ibtimes.com


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To: patriot08

I was just gonna say “don’t go dissin’ Lassie”! LOL


41 posted on 01/20/2014 5:36:37 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Lol..yeah that was pretty funny. :)


42 posted on 01/20/2014 5:49:48 AM PST by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: twister881

I have a relative who is totally wrapped up in the King Legacy. He claims to be a Christian and draws strength from his life. I question how a serial adulterer who cheated on his wife can be a moral role model for anyone.


43 posted on 01/20/2014 5:51:33 AM PST by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: boknows
How dare you attack Saint Martin Luther King! I'm going to spend the day reading his every word (even though he probably didn't write anything meaningful), and then I'll stay home so I don't have to go anywhere near any MLK designated streets nor downtown where some of his true believers and Obambi's sons won't have to hurt their hands by "knockouting" me or my family. And to think they gave the creep his own holiday.
44 posted on 01/20/2014 5:54:22 AM PST by laweeks
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To: Monterrosa-24
Columbus has a national holiday too.

Must have gone to a public screwel. Columbus was not an American. Nor was St. Valentine.

45 posted on 01/20/2014 5:56:03 AM PST by laweeks
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To: FR_addict

But it’s ok to smoke pot.


46 posted on 01/20/2014 5:57:52 AM PST by FES0844
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To: boknows

The weakness of mankind


47 posted on 01/20/2014 5:59:12 AM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: nvscanman
Columbus was Italian

We should have big Italian feasts on Columbus day.

48 posted on 01/20/2014 6:00:28 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
He knew his life was going to end violently

He didn't know squat. And if he were alive today, he'd have his hand out with the other race hustlers. It's a stinking shame that he's a role model whereas Clarence Thomas and Condoleezza Rice are looked at with skepicism and/or contempt.

49 posted on 01/20/2014 6:00:55 AM PST by laweeks
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To: twister881
Adulterer, Communist sympathizer, pliagiarist, serial liar. MLK, Jr. Day is as phony a holiday as is Kwanza.

Hey, lighten up Francis.

The worst thing you can say to a leftist moron is:

"Martin Luther King was a Republican."

50 posted on 01/20/2014 6:04:34 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

He was a Ho Chi Minh sympathizer

That he dallied as GOP in college is inconsequential

Do we want NVA supporters in GOP

We have one in the white house and state dept already

King was no conservative...better than the black beret crowd I guess I’ll give him that

But more effective.. hence dangerous


51 posted on 01/20/2014 6:06:29 AM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: glorgau
Also plagiarized his PHD thesis among other things.

Also plagiarized his name...His real name was Michael, not Martin...

52 posted on 01/20/2014 6:06:34 AM PST by Iscool
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To: laweeks
if he were alive today, he'd have his hand out with the other race hustlers.

That's not what his famous quote stated. What's the content of your character?

53 posted on 01/20/2014 6:07:28 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: big bad easter bunny

LoL

That’s it

Praise the holy dead man

Ignore that magnus..Buckley...and Barry all saw right through him


54 posted on 01/20/2014 6:09:25 AM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: boknows
He was a deeply flawed man.

The segregation, Jim Crow laws, and racial inequality he opposed were even more deeply flawed than he was.

55 posted on 01/20/2014 6:11:21 AM PST by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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To: LibLieSlayer

You would have liked belonging to the group he formed - the Junto.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junto_(club)

There are a few junto clubs today located in e.g. New York, London, Silicon Valley. They’re modeled after Franklin’s original club.


56 posted on 01/20/2014 6:16:21 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: ROCKLOBSTER; Pelham

That famous quote was just window dressing on his writings

Why was he in Memphis?

Push for more pay and Union rights for black garbage workers.....and bring attention and funds to his “struggle”

Which had slowed to what’s next....we got the vote and all this groovy legislation....that still plagues us

Not voting rights or lunch counters

Read Kings words....those he didn’t borrow..... he was a lefty who spoke sweet

Remind you of anyone


57 posted on 01/20/2014 6:20:20 AM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructed me today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: ladyjane

Did you ever see the movie about the Founders and Ben? I believe it was made back in the late 80’s. He was sleeping at the Constitutional Convention and they couldn’t wake him... until they told him they were going to a pub to eat... and there would be whiskey and women... he was up and out the door first!


58 posted on 01/20/2014 6:38:00 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: wardaddy

Yes, but not Jack@$$ nor Sharptongue.


59 posted on 01/20/2014 6:53:50 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: boknows; All
King's "theology"
60 posted on 01/20/2014 6:58:44 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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