The FBI's Suicide Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King

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In 1975, Idaho Senator Frank Church forced the FBI to publicly account for its illegal and immoral activities. The Church Committee also revealed more than 2,000 FBI Co-intel Pro operations aimed at individuals whose only crime was an association with a civil rights anti-war or women's liberation cause. In his testimony though, FBI Deputy Director James Adams refused to acknowledge the evidence. Many Americans who were not even suspected of crime were not only spite upon, but they were harassed.

A remixed complete version of our two part Watergate series from last year: Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the legends and the myths. The 1976 film All the President’s Men remains our most authoritative account of Watergate. The film is also responsible for the myth of Deep Throat. Your host follows the myth… from 1976 to the present. Plus a reporter from the Washington Post newsroom who never made it into All the President’s Men yet did more to safeguard the free press and American democracy than Woodstein ever did.