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MLK/FBI [Opens Jan. 15 in theaters and in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org.] Sam Pollard's powerful, eye-opening, compelling, educational, thought-provoking, 106-minute documentary, which based on David J. Garrow's novel The FBI and MLK Jr.: From "Sold" to Memphis and on unclassified files, that examines the harassment during the 1960s of Black activists and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's and the FBI's attempt to undermine the influence of famous, Atlanta-born, Nobel-Prize-winning Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, who was labeled "the most dangerous Negro in America," during the civil rights movement through overt surveillance, wiretapping, and trying to find a Communist connection and salacious sex material to discredit the Baptist minister and consists of archival film footage (such as The FBI, A Day with the F.B.I., and Walk a Crooked Mile), television clips, and candid overview commentary by U.S. U.N. ambassador and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, former FBI Director James Comey, writer Beverly Gage (Bearing the Cross), attorney and MLK speechwriter Clarence Jones, retired FBI special agent in counterintelligence Charles Knox, and writer Donna Murch (Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party).
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