So—Garrow has been quite condemning of the FBI wiretap of King and has been defending King for 40+ years. BUT
But now, Garrow KNOWS the FBI tapes are real because they are 100% consistent with the new phone tap conversations from the file. Plus all the other incidental things happening in the life of MLK -witnesses, times, dates, people, places & writings. Besides, anyway with a FOIA request can get a peak, too.
The HOTEL room bug transcripts are now solidly confirmed by the wiretapped phone conversation transcripts which occur around the days of those sex events.
1. So the FBI tapes included the raping a church lady who is loudly protesting as King offers rape-advice to the other pastor with other fellow church women present at the Willard Hotel.
2. Another FBI tape has King forcing or coercing women into performing lesbian acts or sodomy acts for King’s group entertainment’ show at an orgy for fellow pastors in Miami.
These ARE the tapes which the FBI copies and then delivers one copy to MLK and a separate copy to Coretta King with a warning to cease his CR activities or risk exposure. (MLK rejects them and claims to be invincible). FBI is anticipating mayhem for the upcoming Spring March on the Washington Mall. King died 3 weeks later.
So there were multiple copies of the same sex-episode tapes.
3. King’s dead and the King family and CR leaders want the tapes forgotten and buried for eternity. Congress, The FBI, Family & Friends, etc. knows of their existence. This later becomes the bone of contention for years of debate regarding whether to establish that King was a saint and declare the MLK holiday.
4. However, fast forward to 2011 and the release of JFK documents which should have no bearing on MLK. Wrong, They hid some of the MLK documents with the JFK classified files and now they have been consumed and circulated by the press and again in 2013 and 2017,... guaranteed that more MLK docs will pop out.
5. So the original sex tapes, as well as many others are now collaborated-confirmed again by 2nd or 3rd wire taps. King is recorded by phone tap bragging and reliving or discussing these same sexual activities and events to his friends in detail by phone. He is discussing what he and others did- the forced sex details, the orgies, women or attendees by name, etc. These sex conversations were tapped from the phone wires, not the bugs in the lamps at King’s hotel rooms. These recordings could be from wires at home or the office or hotel phones.
These various phone transcripts would confirm the original live sex tapes from the lamp bugs in the hotel room. In any case, they erase any doubt of the tapes or transcripts authenticity. And these transcripts were transcribed by multiple FBI agents, yet they refer to the exact same sexual activities —signed, logged, dated, etc.
6. Jackie-’O’ was referring to King’s orgy at the Willard Hotel as she called King ‘such a despicable man’ after hearing about the sordid activities from Bobby Kennedy.
As Attorney General, Bobby had signed the warrant for the FBI to tap MLK in 1962. Hoover asked for a warrant, the Kennedys refused and said, “Let us talk to him first. Their demand was for MLK to rid his organization of Communists, particularly Stanley Levison, who was a former office holder and the Treasurer of CPUSA and now acting as King’s Chief of Staff and attorney. King refused to comply after speaking with both Bobby and Pres. Kennedy. Bobby signed the FBI warrant and the wire-tap remained in place indefinitely.
This is later discussed on the floor of the Senate with Sen. Jesse Helms challenging the debate whether to declare MLK a National holiday. Dems, especially Ted is condemning Hoover’s wiretap of MLK. Helms is laughing and telling Ted Kennedy he should be taking it up with his brother JFK or Bobby (both deceased) since they are the ones who authorized the FBI to tap MLK- LOL
Back to the present:::After shifting through mounds of overwhelming collaborating data from multiple transcripts, David Garrow- MLK expert admirer historian professor civil rights guru finally wakes up and has an epiphany that his hero is also a complete dirtbag.
Garrow makes the decision to out MLK now because of the #MeToo Movement or to straighten up his own record on MLK. As the premier historian of MLK, he has repeatedly ignored the truth which has always been in plain sight. He also defends and ignores the fact that MLK was a complete academic fraud that plagiarized most of what he wrote, often verbatim. Or Garrow is working on a new book and is cashing in on years of his research.
Camelot gone. MLK myth gone along with it.
Now we know why the MLK documents were poached from the general MLK file and mysteriously stored with John F. Kennedy’s forever shielded assassination records.
Call it -Kennedy’s posthumous protection.