DBWI: MLK Assassinated?

[XNM]

He certainly was a very contraversial figure during the civil rights movement, and he had numerous threats against his life. What would happen if Martin Luther King was assassinated? How would things be different, and such?

[Blue Max]

Goodness. We forget that many of the civil rights leaders were murdered. Malcom X, Huey Newton, and of course, RFK.

Martin Luther King was probably the most sensible of them all, and I think that people like Daniel Lemarck finally got the message that King wasn't a communist--that King could well the right man for his time.

My question is--what if FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had stayed in office longer--would he have continued his ties to the American Mafia? Would he have made the decision to take down MLK on grounds of being a communist sympathizer? Of course, Lemarck wasn't going to continue shady ties with White Supremacists in the south.

So, that's my question--would Hoover have done what Lemarck did and leave MLK alone, or would Hoover get dirty to take him down?

[Dungeon Dwelling Dragon]

Originally Posted by Blue Max

Goodness. We forget that many of the civil rights leaders were murdered. Malcom X, Huey Newton, and of course, RFK.

Martin Luther King was probably the most sensible of them all, and I think that people like Daniel Lemarck finally got the message that King wasn't a communist--that King could well the right man for his time.

My question is--what if FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had stayed in office longer--would he have continued his ties to the American Mafia? Would he have made the decision to take down MLK on grounds of being a communist sympathizer? Of course, Lemarck wasn't going to continue shady ties with White Supremacists in the south.

So, that's my question--would Hoover have done what Lemarck did and leave MLK alone, or would Hoover get dirty to take him down?

Well, almost anyone who advocated racial equality was consider a communist by Hoover, so it's not unlikely that King would have been considered a true threat to America, or a pawn of the Soviets at best, had Hoover retained his position.

[Emperor Norton I]

OOC:
Prediction: Someone will make MLK President at a certain point.

[Dungeon Dwelling Dragon]

Originally Posted by Emperor Norton I

OOC:
Prediction: Someone will make MLK President at a certain point.

OOC: Which would make it asb.

[Hades]

Let us not forget him being beated in the 1972 primaries and had to drop out in 1980 due to bowel cancer, which he died of in 1990