In 1963, the FBI began wiretapping Martin Luther King Jr. with the aim of “neutralizing King as an effective Negro leader," as an FBI memo put it at the time.
Relying on recently declassified files, Sam Pollard’s new documentary, MLK/FBI, takes account of that surveillance, the motives behind it and its impact on King. "We felt it was important to really look at howKing was looked at from the perspective of J.
Edgar Hoover and the FBI, that they considered him a very dangerous man," says Pollard, who is best known for editing Spike Lee’s films. "They were going at him by any means necessary to destroy him.
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