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The Outting Of A Black FBI Informant & The Martin Luther King Assassination
An intriguing new twist on history. Shaun Mullen writes:
The revelation that celebrated civil rights era photographer Ernest C. Withers was an FBI informant is being greeted with shock and disbelief. More informed heads like myself are less surprised because J. Edgar Hoover’s agency had hard-wired the entourages of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders with informants.
What makes Withers different is that he was a paid informant and was the only photojournalist in Room 306 of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, which was the room occupied by King on the night he was assassinated, and had tailed him for the FBI after he arrived in the Tennessee river city to support striking African-American sanitation workers.
