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Q1. Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day. Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program from 1963, forward. Do you think today's civil rights leaders are surveilled by the FBI?
overall
custom
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Yes
70%
70%
70%
56%
73%
84%
64%
93%
70%
59%
70%
No
17%
25%
11%
28%
20%
5%
27%
0%
17%
19%
17%
Don't know
12%
5%
19%
15%
7%
11%
0%
0%
11%
22%
12%
Q2. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing Martin Luther King Jr, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting. Your view?
overall
custom
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Ray acted alone
43%
49%
36%
51%
33%
38%
27%
50%
38%
51%
43%
Ray acted in concert with government officials
24%
25%
25%
21%
27%
28%
18%
7%
27%
24%
24%
Ray was framed
6%
7%
5%
8%
7%
4%
0%
7%
8%
5%
6%
Other
2%
2%
3%
4%
0%
0%
0%
0%
3%
0%
2%
Don't know
25%
18%
33%
19%
27%
32%
45%
36%
23%
19%
25%
The original typewritten copy of King's "I Have a Dream" speech, including King's handwritten notes on it, was discovered in 1984 to be in the hands of George Raveling, the first African-American basketball coach of the University of Iowa. In 1963, Raveling, then 26 years old, was standing near the podium, and immediately after the oration, impulsively asked King if he could have his copy of the speech. He got it.
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