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Famed civil rights photographer doubled as FBI informant

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Famed civil rights photographer doubled as FBI informant - 09-14-2010, 08:52 PM


Ernest Withers, a revered civil rights photographer who captured iconic images of Martin Luther King Jr. on the night King was shot in Memphis, actually played a different role the day before: FBI informant.

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09-14-2010, 11:39 PM


I saw that on the news this evening. That's really intersting. We'll probably never know what he was thinking. Many different people will spin that one many different ways.
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09-17-2010, 09:46 AM


Yeah I thought it was interesting too. Just because he was informing about MLK's meeting doesn't mean he was anti-MLK. Perhaps he didn't like the people MLK was meeting with. He isn't alive to defend himself, so I'd err on giving him the benefit of the doubt.
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