The “Dream Speech” set the Kennedys off

Later it would be claimed that it was Dr. King’s opposition to the Vietnam War that got him wire-tapped, microphoned and tailed by Fart, Barf & Itch.

“’The FBI’s program to destroy Dr. King as the leader of the civil rights movement entailed efforts to discredit him with churches, universities and the press,’ the report said.”

It was the Dream Speech, in 1963, that set off the Kennedys, the Democrats in the White House and cabinet (whose party enforced segregation throughout the South) who ordered the surveillance. Their reasons have been buried under so much official and unofficial nonsense over the years that it would be impossible to sort it out.

Officially, however, they suspected Dr. King was a communist, although it wasn’t illegal to be one.