ID:

386

Date:

2007-09-01

Headline:

11 News exclusive: Inside the FBI's secret files on Coretta Scott King

Reporter's name:

David Raziq & Mark Greenblatt

Delay/denial:

No

Lawsuit:

No

Fees:

No

Media outlet:

KHOU

City:

Houston, TX

Summary:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's file on Coretta Scott King showed surveillance of Mrs. King continued - and intensified - after her husband's assassination, but the monitoring dwindled in 1972 after the death of J. Edgar Hoover. KHOU, a Houston television station, used FOIA to obtain the FBI file.

Notes:

NPR's Tony Cox confirmed that KHOU-TV used FOIA to obtain the documents. Cox interviewed Dr. Christine King Farris on the King family's reaction on August 31, 2007.

Keywords:

King, FBI, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr., Hoover, civil rights, Viet Nam, anti-war movement

URL:

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou070830_ac_scottkingfiles.85e64faa.html

Agencies:

FBI

States:

TX

Categories:

civil rights
FBI