Report: Jacqueline Kennedy Disliked Civil Rights Leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in Aftermath of Husband's Assassination
Report: Jacqueline Kennedy thought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a "terrible man" and could bear to look at him after her husband's assassination.
Jacqueline Kennedy disliked civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., according to ABC News. Well, if true, that could change how many blacks feel about her and the Kennedy establishment.
Speaking in the months after her husband's assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy was so upset with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that she told a friend and interviewer that she could barely look at images of him.
"I just can't see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man's terrible," Mrs. Kennedy said, as part of an oral history series of interviews released this month.
The widowed first lady soured on King as a result of secret wiretaps arranged by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover had told President Kennedy that King tried to arrange a sex party while in town for the March on Washington, and told Robert Kennedy that King had made derogatory comments during the president's funeral, Mrs. Kennedy recalled.
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