Newly released JFK files allege Martin Luther King Jr. had love child, bedded Joan Baez

NY Daily News ^ | November 3, 2017 | Rich Schapiro and James Fanelli

[Zakeet]

A newly declassified FBI dossier on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. alleges the civil rights leader had a possible lovechild and once bedded folk singer Joan Baez.

The scandalous 20-page report - included in the latest document dump of files related to the JFK assassination - says that "a responsible Los Angeles individual" informed an agent that King had an affair with the wife of a prominent black dentist and may have fathered a baby girl.

The individual, who was a relative of King’s paramour and had known the reverend since 1960, also accused him of having affairs with three other women, including Baez.

The dossier also alleges that King had a proclivity for orgies - and that the frisky revelries even took place at workshops where he was training ministers in urban leadership.

[Cowboy Bob]

This is why the records were to be sealed for 50 years.

They had to push through the MLK Holiday before the truth came out.

Remember the NFL threatened to prevent the Super Bowl from being held in Phoenix unless Arizona agreed to recognize the MLK Holiday?

By the way...there were prostitutes in MLK's room the day he was assassinated.

[Menehune56]

Thanks. I saw Bobbi Gentry back in 1966, still like her music.

[FredZarguna]

Sadly, that is a picture often misidentified as Bobbie, but it is actually Raquel Welch.

[cherry]

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

this.....

[Nextrush]

The date for the FBI files on MLK to be released is 2027, ten years from now, and I hope everything comes out.

[Electric Graffiti]

"Joan Baez was cute as a young girl....good enough for Bob Zimmerman"

She had some great pipes...never knew she could pick the guitar that well. Joan Baez, Diamonds and Rust - Live, 1975 [Youtube video 5 min]

[Nextrush]

When Donald Trump was being trashed last year with the “grab
*****” audio I posted a reply about sex and we human beings.

When it comes to sex, there’s wrongdoing in thought, word and deed among us members of the human race.

MLK reminds me of Trump and Bannon because the team he went up against was a major party political machine, the Democrat political machine.

John Kennedy didn’t want to do squat about race and MLK forced his hand threatening JFK’s re-election in 1964.

The FBI was detailed to spy on MLK for the Democrats and an audio tape of a sexual encounter was mailed to him in early 1964 to get him to shut down racial protest in the election year.

The Civil Rights Act was rammed through by Lyndon Johnson as a sweetener.

Heck, is the FBI spying on Steve Bannon right now?

[cgbg]

Arizona got rolled on the MLK Holiday big time.

Has it brought racial harmony to the state or country?

To ask the question is to laugh out loud!

[Liberty Valance]

LOL!

[bunkerhill7]

He had a dream- It was Joan Baez

[OKSooner]

Every picture tells a story, even in 1961 or whenever.

[OKSooner]

Yes, anyone who cares could go ask her.

[equaviator]

"the civil rights leader had a possible lovechild and once bedded folk singer Joan Baez.

WTF? /s

[cynwoody]

Joan Baez was cute as a young girl....good enough for Bob Zimmerman

When Joan was in her forties, she was good enough for Steve Jobs in his twenties. From the Wikipedia:

Baez dated Apple Computer cofounder Steve Jobs during the early 1980s.^[90] A number of sources have stated that Jobs—then in his mid-20s—had considered asking Baez to marry him, except that her age at the time (early 40s) made the possibility of their having children unlikely.^[91] Baez mentioned Jobs in the acknowledgments in her 1987 memoir And a Voice to Sing With and performed at the memorial for him in 2011. After Jobs' death, Baez spoke fondly about him, stating that even after the relationship had ended the two remained friends, with Jobs having visited Baez shortly before his death, and stating that "Steve had a very sweet side, even if he was as . . . erratic as he was famous for being".^[92]

Joan Baez singing to a sold out audience in Albany
25 March 2016

[native texan]

Us old folks who were alive at that time knew this...it was widely known about MLK Jr. and his affairs.

[JohnnyP]

Thanks for the link to Diamonds and Rust. The audience applauded for nearly a minute.

[mad_as_he$$]

Yup. Gentry only wishes she could fill out a top like that.

[sphinx]

“The course King chooses to follow at this critical time could have momentous impact on the future of race relations in the United States,” the report says.

That much is true. MLK was a magnificent leader of an important and overdue cause, right up through the passage of the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act. He then faced the issue that successful activists often face: what do you do when your cause is won?

The pre-1965 MLK spoke eloquently of the importance of character, personal responsibility and racial harmony. The post-1965 MLK veered sharply left with a deep misreading of the nature of the social problem and a huge blind spot regarding the already-emerging collapse of the black family and the rise of illegitimacy, crime, and addiction. He ended up as a shake-the-money-tree left liberal. Prior to 1965 he had been on the right side of the big issues that counted. Post 1965, he went over to the dark side.

I don't know whether any of MLK's biographers have done justice to this side of the story. Here was a man who, with great personal courage, led a necessary revolution. Along the way, he gained fame and power. He also attracted an army of idolaters, groupies, hangers-on and rank opportunists looking to cash in on the movement. There is ample precedent for this sort of thing; MLK is not the only great leader who has succumbed to this dynamic. He really is only unusual in that he was assassinated so soon, before the growing corruption became public knowledge and the inevitable reaction set in.

As a side note, personal corruption in sexual matters is often the first crack in a man's character, leading to wider disintegration over time. And it's hard to resist the observation that, having been sexually corrupt, MLK instinctively veered left post-1965, as the left at the time was going off the rails sexually. Had he remained faithful, he might well have moved right in reaction to the sexual decadence on the other side.

Unfortunately, MLK's personal trajectory accelerated the transformation of the civil rights movement from a noble cause into a racial shakedown racket, and it empowered the opportunists to take over the leadership. From the simple Baptist preacher of MLK's early years to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton is a pretty sickening fall. And it's a sad story: at the very moment of victory, the black community was betrayed by its leadership and led off on a disastrously self-destructive course.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Joan Baez used to sing a beautiful song about her draft resister husband who went to prison rather than serve in the US military, a real tear jerker. Once he was released from prison, she divorced him. Toxic feminist, she still has a screw loose.

[trebb]

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

And every saint also has a lot of sinners who want to cut them down so the sinners can feel better about themselves....