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.

[BeadCounter]

I guess there must be new details but this was always said about King and Bobby Kennedy had him under surveillance besides.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

So, if we are supposed to believe this part of the file, are we also supposed to believe the part of the file that said Hitler survived until the 1950s? I call BS on all of it. This is kook bait in my opinion.

[ladyjane]

Malcolm’s main accomplishment was to scare enough whites so that MLK looked okay.

[submarinerswife]

I learned something. I didn’t know Joan Baez liked men.

[PLMerite]

This is I think, Bobbie Gentry:

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I have read that MLK was a Republican. Is that true??

I didn't know the answer to this, so I checked around a bit. The answer seems to be no, though King supported some Republicans (Nixon, most prominently). King was also not a Democrat - he apparently stayed non-partisan throughout his life. His father was, however, a registered Republican.

Aside from party affiliation, though, I think many of King's speeches show a mindset that would be very opposed to the kind of hysterical racial politics practiced by people like Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton and others these days.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I learned something. I didn’t know Joan Baez liked men.

The one thing I do know about Joan Baez is that she was involved with Bob Dylan for quite a while. My English teacher in high school made us study the lyrics to Baez's song "Diamonds and Rust" as an example of poetry and kept going on about how Baez had written about her ex - Dylan.

[Skooz]

The most important question.

[wardaddy]

I agree with Fred
But google that pic and you’ll see it’s claimed to be her

However that white bikini was a favorite of young Welch

And Welch had pointy nose

Gentry had nose which was part of her Miss delta Choctaw heritage

[BeadCounter]

And Bobbie Gentry was largely a one hit wonder, I’ll go with other female country singers of the sixties including Jeannie C. Riley (Harper Valley) PTA and Dottie West.

[PLMerite]

[xp38]

It’s hard to tell in this clip whether it is white or light yellow but the color is somewhat secondary I think. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riN7TErABjs

[x]

He had a taste for Vanilla.

That is the sort of thing people liked to say back then, but there doesn't appear to be any evidence that King was particularly drawn to white women sexually.

[Nextrush]

The liberality about sex was something we all faced back then as children.

The adults I heard said “don’t be a prude” and I read a magazine article about what “Mr. Rogers” as in PBS kids show host Fred Rogers said on television to the little ones back then.

“Boys are fancy on the outside and girls are fancy on the inside” is the quote from a Los Angeles media magazine in 1969.

Of course people ended up being hurt by the selfishness hidden in being “open” about sex.

Heck, Harvey Weinstein was a teenager near the end of the 1960’s.

[Albion Wilde]

Now that’s just funny!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I have read that MLK was a Republican. Is that true??

Yes. Martin Luther King Senior was a Republican.

That’s the point that Dinesh D’Souza makes - that the Democratic Party split from the Democratic Republican Party and was proslavery. The Democrat's first POTUS was Andrew Jackson, slaveowner. The Republicans, of course, coalesced a generation later and its first presidential candidate ran in 1856 and its second, Abraham Lincoln, ran in 1860.

Black attachment to the Republican Party was only natural - and the Democrats disenfranchised blacks to create maintain the Solid South legacy of the Confederacy. Ultimately the Democrats found that they could buy the votes of poor blacks, and that led to the real “big switch” - Blacks going “back to the plantation” by voting for Democrats.

[Impy]

“F***ing For Peace”

A few deluded sluts might have actually convinced themselves that's why they were boinking. Hahahahaha.

[Pelham]

+1

[Pelham]

“I think he’d be appalled by today’s liberals.”

Stanley Levison and Hunter Pitts Odell would surely be amused by that opinion.

[Pelham]

John Kennedy approved wiretapping MLK because two of his closest advisers were members of the CPUSA- Stanley Levison and Hunter Pitts Odell. King was warned to get rid of them but didn’t care. Another hard left advisor was Bayard Rustin. At the end of his life King was involved in the anti-war movement and other hard left causes.

The idea that he was a conservative of some sort is ridiculous nonsense repeated by Hannity and Limbaugh. It’s not true in the least.