Certainly he was no longer welcome at the White House. Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson had made history together--collaborating on the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965--but now Johnson wouldn't even talk to King. The president viewed him as a traitor, once calling him, 'that n-word preacher.'"[ix]
On June 20, 1997, in a New York Times article headlined "Son of Dr. King Asserts L.B.J. Role in Plot" by Kevin Sack, the King family admitted that they had suspected all along that President Lyndon Baines Johnson was behind the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King:
Three months ago, Dexter Scott King . . . asserted that President Lyndon B. Johnson must have been part of a military and governmental conspiracy to kill Dr. King. "Based on the evidence that I've been shown, I would think that it would be very difficult for something of that magnitude to
occur on his watch and he [LBJ] not be privy to it,'' Mr. King said on the ABC News program Turning Point.
Another of Johnson's sycophants, his attorney general, Ramsey Clark, in 1968 had a vocal malfunction when he declared there was no conspiracy involved, even before the "investigation" was complete, not to mention the trial. In this case, AG Clark was speaking on behalf of President Johnson in pronouncing the accused guilty.
The efforts of LBJ's defenders, then as now, have served to hide Johnson's deceit and nefarious maneuvers, thus his most secret and criminal actions throughout his presidency. The time has come for those crimes and treasons to be brought out of the closets to which they have been hidden for five decades and exposed to the light of truth. The nation has been seriously harmed, and the public's right to know has been denied, for far too long. The public's trust in the federal government is at an all-time low as a direct result of the hidden lies and the buried crimes. The LBJ "legend" can no longer stand the "truth" test and it is therefore imperative that it must be corrected, and the sooner the better.
[i] Gentry, Curt, J. Edgar Hoover - The Man and the Secrets. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991, p. 500
[ii] Ibid., p. 501
[iii] Ibid., p. 505
[iv] Theoharis, Athan, From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover, Chicago: Ivan Dee, 1991, p. 99.
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