Poor People's Campaign event
also: poor people campaign, poor people's march on Washington, the 1968 Poor People's Campaign
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Claims (7)
FBI targeted_for_regime_change
Poor People's Campaign documented
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“Steps were taken to subvert the 'Poor People's Campaign which Dr King was planning to lead in the spring of 1968.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.239
Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack
Poor People's Campaign documented
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“Planting a series of derogatory articles about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Poor People's Campaign.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.32
FBI interfered_with
Poor People's Campaign documented
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“to interfere with peaceful demonstrations including the SCLC's Poor People's Campaign and Washington Spring Project…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.232
FBI carried_out_attack
Poor People's Campaign documented
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“The cases include attempts... to disrupt peaceful demonstrations including... Poor People's Campaign...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.34
FBI supplied_arms_to
Poor People's Campaign documented
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“The Bureau also planted derogatory articles about the Poor People's Campaign the Institute for Policy Studies the Southern Students Organizing Committee the National Mobilization Committee and a host of other organizations it believed neede…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.42
Robert F. Kennedy proposed
Poor People's Campaign caller_asserted
“you know, surprised that I had not heard this before, was that RFK suggested to Martin Luther King the 1968 Poor People's Campaign, during which MLK was assassinated. And I'm like, wait, why am I like 57 years old? I've been reading Cold Wa…”
▶ Operation Gladio and the 1968 Election PART 2 @ 1:27:31
Robert F. Kennedy proposed
Poor People's Campaign caller_asserted
“what I was surprised that I had not heard this before was that RFK suggested to Martin Luther King the 1968 Poor People's Campaign,…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:27:02
Mentions (5)
▶ 1:27:02
Basically, I do tons of reading on Cold War history. I'm like, oh, fascinating. I feel like that was when the projector was made and they got us watching films, so to speak. So what I learned, what I was surprised that I had not heard this …
▶ 1:27:33
during which MLK was assassinated. And I'm like, wait, why am I like 57 years old? I've been reading Cold War history all the time. I never heard this before. Calcuria over here. And then, you know, what's also never mentioned is that MLK w…
▶ 1:32:14
RFK and MLK with the poor people's campaign that RFK had suggested, you know, that campaign is ending in three assassinations, the last in two plane crashes. And our so-called emphasis, in my opinion, so-called left never says a word about …
▶ 17:36
ones how can we go on behalf of the broad national interest these ones need us now let's start with the poor people campaign here which is what he did so he came to memphis and he was here on the 17th and 18th of march and he spoke and then…
▶ 1:23:03
And so does this guy named MLK who was doing some labor things in Memphis, I think. And also with the Poor People's Campaign, which overlapped with labor to some extent because, again, you're going to – it's going to favor the more CIO-orie…