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Ep. 55: OG Man

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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The Great Flaws of J. Edgar Hoover

Bobby Kennedy approved the initial wiretaps of King's homes and offices. He was obsessed with Jimmy Hoffa, the team street union leader who had unsavory connections to Amofia. And in this case, it's not that he was manipulated by J. Edgar Hoover. The problem is what Hoover and his deputies did with the information that they collected in their surveillance of Martin Luther King.

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