[FLT-bird]

Agreed. If those tapes existed, they would have been used to destroy him.

[Yaelle]

If those tapes existed, they would have been used to destroy him.

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You mean, instead of killing him the way they did it?

[RummyChick]

The tapes do, in fact, exist. Content is up for debate.

Sealed by Court Order.

Unsealed in 2027.

[riverdawg]

“Agreed. If those tapes existed, they would have been used to destroy him.”

One of my friends in college in the 1960s was the son of a Washington Evening Star columnist. This friend told me about the existence of FBI tapes, widely known among DC insiders like his father, that documented King’s philandering behavior. I don’t know if these are the same tapes. I do clearly remember being told that one of the tapes had King boasting, “I is the king of the p***y eaters.”

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Using the tapes would be very messy and neither he nor his wife who were sent the tapes seemed to care.

He was warned to purge his organization of communist activists. He refused and Instead -he- got- dead.