JFK and RFK were behind the wiretappers!!!
Somebody check and see if Katzenbach has managed to auger himself into the ground with his spinning.
It will only wash with those to young to remember.
LBJ sure had enough guts to tell Hoover to wiretap Barry Goldwater and 4 years later Richard Nixon.
And I don't buy the crap the Bobby Kennedy was squmeish about tapping King. Bobby Kennedy was a first class prick and would play any dirty trick if it could help him. He was not the "Saint Bobby" the mainstream created.
Katzenbach was a fool in the 60's, and he still is. I thought folks were suppossed to get smarter as they aged, but in his case the opposite occured.
Even the peaceful civil rights movement - led by MLK - was somewhat disappointed with the Kennedy's, especially John, I believe, and the Kennedy's lukewarm "support" of the movement, until the latter months of JFK's life. JFK was a political animal first, and through much of his presidency, he put practicality before conviction when it came to civil rights. Actually, there probably was little conviction on his part until the last few months.....The wiretaps, and it's apparent in what Katzenback wrote, continued into the Johnson (democrat) administration, apparently with the support of at least some in the administration.......Katzenbach writes in the last paragraph of how there has been blood shed to protect freedom. How true. There will likely be much more blood shed if the wacky left succeeds in hamstringing Bush of his legal means to do what he can to monitor people wanting to kill us.