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This CIA FOIA release contains an April 1968 dispatch, UFGA-29877, summarizing how Cuban media covered the assassination of Martin Luther King from 5 to 8 April. The dispatch quotes Granma and Havana radio stations, including statements by Stokely Carmichael and others that call for revolutionary violence. The release also includes May 1971 cables and a memo to the FBI on Americans at the World Peace Council conference in Budapest, where King was posthumously awarded the Joliot-Curie Gold Medal.
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TELEPOUCH DISP NO FILE NO - NONE DATE 4TH APRIL 1968 MICROFILMED APR 15 1968 DOC. MICRO. BÉR. INDEXING NONE MICROFILM - NONE TO - CHIEF, INFO - CHIEF, CHIEF, FROM - CHIEF SUBJECT O SUMMARY OF CUBAN MEDIA TREATMENT OF THE DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, TAI APRIL 1968 THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY OF CUBAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE MARTIN LUTHER KING ASSASSINATION-DURING THE PERIOD 5-8 APRIL HAS BEEN PREPARED BY THE GRANMA / HAVANA DAILY NEWSPAPER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA/, X APRIL 68, FRONT PAGE - "LAST MINUTE NEWS - MARTIN LUTHER KING ASSASSINATED IN MEMPHIS, U.S.A. ACCORDING TO FIRST REPORTS, LUTHER KING HAS BEEN SHOT BY A "WHITE WELL-DRESSED YOUNG MALE." GRANMA, I APRIL, FRONT PAGE - "TWENTY-SEVEN PERSONS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE U.S. AS A RESULT OF THE FIGHTING WHICH HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING. IN WASHINGTON ALONE THERE ARE 750 WOUNDED AND 4,186 PERSONS ARRESTED. SNIPERS CONTINUE TO BE ACTIVE IN DIFFERENT CITIES IN THE U.S. THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE CAPITOL ARE UNDER HEAVY GUARD." /FULL INFORMATION IN GRANMA, 1 APRIL, LAST PAGE - "TO RICHMOND TO LIBERATE RAP BROWN." /WASHINGTON, 1 APRIL, ASSOCIATED FRENCH PRESS - AFP, FRENCH NEWS AGENCY AMX LEAFLETS WERE DISTRIBUTED HERE THIS MORNING, URGING THE NEGRO PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON TO GO TO RICHMOND TO LIBERATE RAP BROWN." /THE LEAFLETS CALLED ON THE NEGROES TO FORM A MOTOR- CADE AND LEAVE FOR RICHMOND TOMORROW, MONDAY TELEPOUCH PAGE ONE APPROVED FOR RELEASE au 6 2new 7 K
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 166 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.