free at last free at last
thank god almighty
i knew the fbi had to bail king i just
didn't know the extent that they did
after dr king gave his famous march on
washington speech
wednesday august 28 1963
and a memo dated the 30th of august no
later than that
the second person in the fbi may have
been sullivan
sends an urgent memo every time king
made a move to a different city
there were agents who were sent out by
the fbi
to monitor and surveil him they were
wiretapping they had bugs in his hotel
rooms
i mean they were they everything he did
they were following
film looks at this parallel story of the
fbi
and king and how they all came to do
canada in terms of the fbi surveilling
king trying to destroy him
can you remember the march on washington
and can you remember i was 13.
you know i always say the people there
were three pictures we had on our walls
in our household in many
african-american households
one was the king john fitzgerald kennedy
and jesus christ the holy trinity
the night before his assassination king
gave
one of the most remarkable speeches of
his whole career
one of the themes was the idea that
protest
itself was really in peril
you were seeing crackdowns all across
the country
uh increasing concerns about violence he
started the film basically not
you know none of us knew what was going
to be 2020 was going to be like
but we felt that that much of the stuff
that you see and here in this film
it's just relevant to many of the things
we see in america today
you know you're gonna if you vote this
democrat to be president they're gonna
destroy your suburbs you know
you know you know if you let these black
lives matters people keep protesting
they're going to
lead to antifa i mean this is this is
the same dog whistles that we've heard
for so many years you think there's been
progress in america and there has been i
should take that back there has been but
there's still
a level of systemic racism that's
prevalent in this country
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