Story of the Day: Denial of Early Dr. King Creates Another Mythology (Two TV Appearances from 1957)

As his Nobel Peace Prize bio states, "In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action."

The following interviews, two of Dr. King's earliest extensive televised media appearances, show him at the beginning of that journey in 1957, a soft-spoken young man who handled both substantive and silly questions will equal poise and purpose.

Look Here - Part I

Look Here - Part II

Look Here - Part III

Comments

[Brad Jacobson]

Denial of Early Dr. King Creates Another Mythology

[Jacob]

This is a significant and important post. We have forgotten how his words created significant tension among, not only the white community, but also the religious community.

We can only imagine how his message, re: violent America would be received today, considering the reaction to Michelle Obama's comment about finally being "proud" of her country.

King was a brave man who faced incredible odds. It was a strange, dangerous and violent time.

One example: In the mainstream Protestant church with which I was connected, members brought guns to Sunday worship for fear of possible violence by "rabble-rousing" blacks.

Progress was not merely slow. Sometimes it seemed we took one step back for every step forward.

Thanks for reminding us again of the reality of the struggle.

[Petro]

That the human race can throw up a man such as this, however rarely, redeems the host of our petty malfeasance. The Gandhi's and Dr. King's make it possible to feel love not only for my fellows, but even for the more daunting task of loving myself.

Thank you for this post. I had not seen these earlier interviews (conducted in the year of my birth.)

[Standard Error]

Great stuff, thanks for writing about it.

[Ronald L. Waldron]

NO USA OFFICIAL SHOULD HAVE DUEL CITIZENSHIP

Come on, we the underprivileged VOTER CLASS citizens of America, can no longer be critical of the MEDIA or Congress.
After 60 years of illegal nation building, while our
own infrastructure has been ignored, our taxes
spent for the benefit of Israel and their atrocities,
our military troops injuried or killed fighting wars
for their existence. Such critism has now become
ANTI-SEMITIC

"There is a Chinese proverb that says: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Will Congress be fooled again into supporting still another war against still another nation, which is not an imminent threat and which has no intention nor capability of attacking the United States?"

"However, some foreign lobbyist are trying to create an international crisis by inflating Iran's nuclear development into another Iraq WMD hoax. Here we go another false flag operation for the
benefit of a foreign rogue state, the same propaganda machine to feed the US media a steady stream of lies, all to set the stage for a war against Iran.

Abolish all nuclear weapons, as is the express intent of the NPT. Begin with Israel, that already has 300 nuclear war heads .Iran nor Israel should not have nuclear weapons, the next Israeli attack on the USA can't be covered up like the attack on
the USS Liberty.
Johnson and McNamara told those heading the Navy's inquiry to "conclude that the attack was a case of 'mistaken identity' despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary."

Fifteen years after the attack, an Israeli pilot approached Liberty survivors and then held extensive interviews with former Congressman Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey about his role. According to this senior Israeli lead pilot, he recognized the Liberty as American immediately, so informed his headquarters, and was told to ignore the American flag and continue his attack. He refused to do so and returned to base, where he was arrested.

The pilot's protests also were heard by radio monitors in the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. Then-U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dwight Porter has confirmed this. Porter told his story to syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak and offered to submit to further questioning by authorities. Unfortunately, no one in the U.S. government has any interest in hearing these first-person accounts of Israeli treachery.
You can be certain other incidents have been covered up, with more coming if our paid off officials don't comply with their wishes.
It is time that we reject any person or persons
with duel citizenship from running for public office.

the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) was signed into law on October 11, 1996.

A Foreign Agent is any officer, employee, proxy, servant, delegate, or representative of a foreign government. It seems like Media & Congress
has plenty of foreign agents with foreign interest
at heart. Check out the campaign funding of each.