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Martin Luther King Jr. biopic dropped by Oliver Stone after script with adultery rejected
Post-Standard, Syracuse, NY ^ | January 20, 2014 at 7:14 AM | By Geoff Herbert

Posted on 01/20/2014 8:01:16 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

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To: Gaffer

“With the exception of one of the daughters, IIRC”


Perhaps you are recalling correctly, but it also is possible that you’re thinking of his niece, pro-life activist Alveda King: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveda_King


41 posted on 01/20/2014 10:39:00 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what ma kes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: floralamiss
The FBI Files are due to be unsealed in 2027. I still plan on being around then, my health and the Good Lord willing.
42 posted on 01/20/2014 10:49:39 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

You are correct. My bad.


43 posted on 01/20/2014 11:35:29 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: DungeonMaster

{ping} ... because I can’t ping ol’ bw (may he R.I.P.) ...


44 posted on 01/20/2014 12:03:26 PM PST by newgeezer (It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson, 1824)
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To: bigbob

Your adoration of a man associated with communists is interesting.


45 posted on 01/20/2014 12:17:28 PM PST by JimSp
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To: martin_fierro

I remember listening to G. Gordon Liddy on the radio years ago and he said that the FBI tapes of MLK made Bill Clinton look like a Boy Scout. That’s what got me first questioning the idol known as MLK.


46 posted on 01/20/2014 1:15:46 PM PST by Sister_T (So, ACA is the law of the land? Remember: DADT and DOMA were the laws of the land! Repeal ACA!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Par for the course. But what’s stopping Stone from making his own movie his way then? Hollywood hardly likes Mel Gibson any more, but he still gets movies made.


47 posted on 01/20/2014 1:23:10 PM PST by OldNewYork
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To: Repeat Offender

Or that MLK was a Pubbie before JFK coopted him.


48 posted on 01/20/2014 1:52:45 PM PST by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Stone’s film would have been both about adultery and Marxism with King portrayed as some sort of Che figure.


49 posted on 01/20/2014 1:59:20 PM PST by Nextrush (AFFORDABLE CARE ACT=HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY BAILOUT ACT)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Revolting cat!

MLKJR was whitewashed!


50 posted on 01/20/2014 2:05:00 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Revolting cat!; GeronL
Will it depict St. JFK and St. RFK listening in on wiretaps of their lost brother St. MLK?


51 posted on 01/20/2014 2:06:43 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: ladyjane; Revolting cat!

They also sued the record companies that put out memorial albums of MLK’s inspiring speeches.

There were plenty of such albums in the wake of the JFK assassination and even the moon landing as well.


52 posted on 01/20/2014 2:08:15 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: RobbyS

It amazes me how much people don’t know.

Ralph Abernathy (MLK’s right hand man) wrote in his autobiography that Dr. King was less than a saint.

Author Taylor Branch delved into as best he can, the FBI records on surveillance are locked up until 2027.

Branch got FBI techinicians to tell him what they heard on the audio tapes.

And what the FBI found out about the adultery got all the way to the top in 1963. Jackie Kennedy was audio interviewed after her husband’s death callin MLK a “phony” and saying he was arranging for “orgies” before the March on Washington in the summer of 63.

Dr. King was human and he made mistakes just like JFK and ultimately just like myself.
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The story of his private life was being whispered around Washington courtesy of the FBI some 50 years ago this month.

The Kennedy Administration authorized the FBI spying and it continued into the Johnson Administration. CNN did a documentary a few years ago reporting on the tape that the FBI sent to MLK in 1964 that Mrs. King listened to of one of the adulterous encounters.

I THINK KING WAS SPIED ON BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATS WANTED TO KEEP HIM IN LINE FOR THE 1964 ELECTION. A SUSPENSION OF CIVIL RIGHTS PROTESTS WAS ANNOUNCED IN JULY 1964 TO HELP LBJ’S ELECTION.


53 posted on 01/20/2014 2:10:08 PM PST by Nextrush (AFFORDABLE CARE ACT=HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY BAILOUT ACT)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
"The script dealt w/ issues of adultery, conflicts within the movement, and King's spiritual transformation into a higher, more radical being," Stone continued. "I'm told the estate & the 'respectable' black community that guard King's reputation won't approve it. They suffocate the man & the truth. I wish you could see the film I would've made. I fear if 'they' ever make it, it'll be just another commemoration of the March on Washington. Martin, I grieve for you. You are still a great inspiration for your fellow Americans--but, thank God, not a saint."
Obviously he's just another white-wing wacist! Thanks Behind Liberal Lines.
54 posted on 01/20/2014 2:20:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Nextrush

JFK and his administration tried to half the 1963 march on Washington. They also nixed plans to take the march to the White House.


55 posted on 01/20/2014 2:33:06 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: a fool in paradise

halt not half


56 posted on 01/20/2014 2:33:27 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

They decided to publish the legend, not surprising.


57 posted on 01/20/2014 2:40:04 PM PST by BurningOak (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2830849/reply?c=1)
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To: newgeezer

Some black guy on ABC’s sunday morning rag said “Dr. Martin Luther is the finest man this country has ever produced”. BAHHHHHH


58 posted on 01/20/2014 2:47:13 PM PST by DungeonMaster
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

the truth hurts

but on another note: Happy Robert E Lee Birthday everybody!


59 posted on 01/20/2014 3:30:23 PM PST by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Well said. That is how I feel.


60 posted on 01/20/2014 3:35:20 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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