I repeat no person can argue successfully against facts. Senior FBI officials later sent King a copy of the incriminating tape and called him an 'evil abnormal beast' and his sexual exploits would be 'on record for all time'. The MLK tapes: Secret FBI recordings accuse Martin Luther King Jr of watching and laughing as a pastor raped a woman, having 40 extramarital affairs - and they are under lock in a U.S.. reviewed all of the material the FBI collected on Dr. Yale historian Beverly Gage published a copy of it in The New York Times in 2014. Post associate editor David Maraniss, author of Barack Obama: The Story, tweeted at the time that Garrow was a vile, undercutting, ignoble competitor unlike any Ive encountered., But Garrow said close to three dozen historians, authors and journalists had read his article before it published and are 100 percent supportive and had given him zero criticism. He said that if random people who spend their time on Twitter are unhappy about it, then their unhappiness is with the JFK Records Act and the National Archives., Garrow listed Yale historian Beverly Gage as one of his supporters. INSIDER has published the full transcript of the letter at the bottom of this article. However, Garrow's 1986 biography of King won the Pulitzer Prize, so his new material will be difficult to ignore. "We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough," King said, reviewing. From 1971 onwards Martin Luther King JR Day has been observed to remember him. The FBI campaign against King began with wiretaps, but quickly ballooned. Sign up for notifications from Insider! Is ISIS committing genocide against the Yazidis? If not, do we really want to know the specific details? He also rips off an arm to use as a sword. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation., According to Pulitzer Prize-winning King biographer David J. Garrow, media outlets turned him down when he initially offered to share the story of the suicide letter.. Well actually if you look over the course of the last 60 years, J. Edgar Hoover what he did to Martin Luther King, that was an affront. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top, Not the answer you're looking for? King Charles III, keen to show that he can be a unifying figure for everyone in the United Kingdom, will be crowned in a ceremony that will for the first time include the active participation of . A staff writer for All Thats Interesting, Marco Margaritoff has also published work at outlets including People, VICE, and Complex, covering everything from film to finance to technology. So people would say, "Oh, how horrible his personal life is, how can we follow this man?" "It probably was King on the tape," says Chuck Fager, King's colleague and Selma jail cellmate.